Issue |
A&A
Volume 555, July 2013
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Article Number | A8 | |
Number of page(s) | 17 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218824 | |
Published online | 19 June 2013 |
Warm gas in protostellar outflows
I. Flows from the low-mass protostars in L1448 and HH211⋆,⋆⋆
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR),
Auf dem Hügel 69,
53121
Bonn,
Germany
2
INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5,
50125
Firenze,
Italy
e-mail:
arturogr@arcetri.astro.it
3
LERMA, UMR 8112 du CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, École Normale Supérieure,
24 rue
Lhomond, 75231
Paris Cedex 5,
France
Received:
15
January
2012
Accepted:
3
April
2013
Context. Observations of CO rotational transitions in the 0.3−0.4 millimeter range, now possible from exceptional sites on the ground, provide the opportunity of studying the warm component of molecular outflows in star-forming regions.
Aims. This study aims to characterize the role of the warm gas in high-velocity and collimated outflows from Class 0 low-mass protostars.
Methods. We used the CHAMP+ heterodyne array on the APEX telescope to map the CO (6–5) and CO (7–6) emission in the well-known Class 0 outflows L1448-mm and HH211-mm. We complement these data with 13CO (6–5) observations and also with previous low-J CO observations.
Results. The CO (6–5) and (7–6) emission was detected to be tracing the outflow lobes. In L1448, extremely high-velocity (EHV) emission was detected in both transitions. In HH211, high-velocity CO (6–5) emission was detected to be tracing the regions close to the central object, but it was also found close to the bow-shock regions seen in the mid-IR. A large velocity gradient code applied to these and the complementary low-J CO data revealed the high-velocity components to be dense (>105 cm-3) and warm (T > 200 K) gas, in agreement with previous observations of shock tracers such as SiO.
Conclusions. The high-velocity emission of these mid-J CO transitions are very good tracers of the inner highly excited part of outflows, which possibly is molecular material related to the underlying jet. In addition, these transitions are also strong at the bow-shock positions, which make them a good tool for probing these environments.
Key words: ISM: jets and outflows / stars: formation / ISM: individual objects: L1448 / ISM: individual objects: HH211 / shock waves
Based on observations acquired with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). APEX is a collaboration between the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, the European Southern Observatory, and the Onsala Space Observatory.
The high-velocity CO (6–5) maps of L1448 and HH211 are available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/555/A8
© ESO, 2013
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