Issue |
A&A
Volume 548, December 2012
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Article Number | A39 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220067 | |
Published online | 16 November 2012 |
Synthetic observations of first hydrostatic cores in collapsing low-mass dense cores
II. Simulated ALMA dust emission maps
1
Laboratoire de radioastronomie, UMR 8112 du CNRS, École Normale Supérieure
et Observatoire de Paris,
24 rue Lhomond,
75231
Paris Cedex 05,
France
e-mail: benoit.commercon@lra.ens.fr
2
ESO, Karl Schwarzschild Strasse 2, 85748
Garching bei München,
Germany
3
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117
Heidelberg,
Germany
Received: 20 July 2012
Accepted: 2 October 2012
Context. First hydrostatic cores are predicted by theories of star formation, but their existence has never been demonstrated convincingly by (sub)millimeter observations. Furthermore, the multiplicity in the early phases of the star formation process is poorly constrained.
Aims. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we seek to provide predictions for ALMA dust continuum emission maps from early Class 0 objects. Second, we show to what extent ALMA will be able to probe the fragmentation scale in these objects.
Methods. Following our companion paper, we post-processed three state-of-the-art radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic 3D adaptive mesh refinement calculations to compute the emanating dust emission maps. We then produced synthetic ALMA observations of the dust thermal continuum from first hydrostatic cores.
Results. We present the first synthetic ALMA observations of dust continuum emission from the first hydrostatic cores. We analyze the results given by the different bands and configurations and we discuss for which combinations of the two the first hydrostatic cores would most likely be observed. We also show that observing dust continuum emission with ALMA will help in identifying the physical processes occurring within collapsing dense cores. If the magnetic field is playing a role, the emission pattern will show evidence of a pseudo-disk and even of a magnetically driven outflow, which pure hydrodynamical calculations cannot reproduce.
Conclusions. The capabilities of ALMA will enable us to make significant progress towards understanding the fragmentation at the early Class 0 stage and discovering first hydrostatic cores.
Key words: stars: formation / stars: low-mass / magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) / radiative transfer / techniques: interferometric / methods: numerical
© ESO, 2012
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