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A&A
Volume 581, September 2015
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Article Number | A91 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526428 | |
Published online | 11 September 2015 |
Research Note
Disentangling the jet emission from protostellar systems
The ALMA view of VLA1623⋆
1
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via di Frascati 33, 00040
Monteporzio Catone,
Italy
e-mail: gina.santangelo@oa-roma.inaf.it
2
Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
(MPE), Giessenbachstr.1, 85748
Garching,
Germany
3
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, 50125
Florence,
Italy
4
Institute of Astronomy and Department of Physics, National Tsing
Hua University, 101 Section 2 Kuang
Fu Road, 30013
Hsinchu,
Taiwan
5
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and
Astrophysics, PO Box
23-141, 10617
Taipei,
Taiwan
6
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University,
PO Box 9513, 2300 RA
Leiden, The
Netherlands
Received:
28
April
2015
Accepted:
5
June
2015
Context. High-resolution studies of class 0 protostars represent the key to constraining protostar formation models. VLA16234−2417 represents the prototype of class 0 protostars, and it has been recently identified as a triple non-coeval system.
Aims. We aim at deriving the physical properties of the jets in VLA16234−2417 using tracers of shocked gas.
Methods. ALMA Cycle 0 Early Science observations of CO(2−1) in the extended configuration are presented in comparison with previous SMA CO(3−2) and Herschel-PACS [Oi] 63 μm observations. Gas morphology and kinematics were analysed to constrain the physical structure and origin of the protostellar outflows.
Results. We reveal a collimated jet component associated with the [Oi] 63 μm emission at about 8′′ (~960 AU) from source B. This newly detected jet component is inversely oriented with respect to the large-scale outflow driven by source A, and it is aligned with compact and fast jet emission very close to source B (about 0''̣3) rather than with the direction perpendicular to the A disk. We also detect a cavity-like structure at low projected velocities, which surrounds the [Oi] 63 μm emission and is possibly associated with the outflow driven by source A. Finally, no compact outflow emission is associated with source W.
Conclusions. Our high-resolution ALMA observations seem to suggest there is a fast and collimated jet component associated with source B. This scenario would confirm that source B is younger than A, that it is in a very early stage of evolution, and that it drives a faster, more collimated, and more compact jet with respect to the large-scale slower outflow driven by A. However, a different scenario of a precessing jet driven by A cannot be firmly excluded from the present observations.
Key words: stars: formation / stars: low-mass / ISM: jets and outflows / ISM: individual objects: VLA16234 / 2417
Appendix A is available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
© ESO, 2015
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