Issue |
A&A
Volume 617, September 2018
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Article Number | A10 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832765 | |
Published online | 12 September 2018 |
Water and interstellar complex organics associated with the HH 212 protostellar disc
On disc atmospheres, disc winds, and accretion shocks
1
INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri,
Largo E. Fermi 5,
50125
Firenze,
Italy
e-mail: codella@arcetri.astro.it
3
Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG),
38401
Grenoble,
France
2
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia,
Via G. Sansone 1,
50019
Sesto Fiorentino,
Italy
4
LERMA, UMR 8112 du CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, École Normale Supérieure,
61 Av. de l’Observatoire,
75014
Paris,
France
5
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
PO Box 23-141,
Taipei
106,
Taiwan
6
Graduate Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Taiwan University,
No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road,
Taipei
10617,
Taiwan
7
IGN, Observatorio Astronómico Nacional,
Alfonso XII 3,
28014
Madrid,
Spain
8
IRAM, 300 rue de la Piscine,
38406
Saint-Martin-d’Hères,
France
9
Laboratoire d’astrophysique de Bordeaux, Univ. de Bordeaux, CNRS, B18N,
allée Geoffroy Saint–Hilaire,
33615
Pessac,
France
10
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari,
Via della Scienza 5,
09047
Selargius (CA),
Italy
11
INAF – Istituto di Radioastronomia & Italian ALMA Regional Centre,
Via P. Gobetti 101,
40129
Bologna,
Italy
Received:
3
February
2018
Accepted:
12
June
2018
Context. The unprecedented combination of high-sensitivity and high angular resolution provided by the ALMA interferometer allows us to shed light on the processes leading to the formation of the jet-disc system associated with a Sun-like mass protostar.
Aims. We investigate the physical and chemical properties of the gas associated with water and interstellar complex organic molecules around a protostar on solar system scales.
Methods. The HH 212 protostellar system, in Orion B, has been mapped, thanks to ALMA-Band 7 Cycle 1 and Cycle 4 observations of dueterated water (HDO) and acetaldehyde (CH3CHO) emission with an angular resolution down to ~0.′′15 (60 au).
Results. Many emission lines due to 14 CH3CHO and 1 HDO transitions at high excitation (Eu between 163 and 335 K) have been imaged in the inner ~70 au region. The local thermal equilibrium analysis of the CH3CHO emission leads to a temperature of 78 ± 14 K and a column density of 7.6 ± 3.2 × 1015 cm−2, which, when NH2 of 1024 cm−2 is assumed, leads to an abundance of XCH3CHO ≃ 8 × 10−9. The large velocity gradient analysis of the HDO emission also places severe constraints on the volume density, nH2 ≥ 108 cm−3. The line profiles are 5–7 km s−1 wide, and CH3CHO and HDO both show a ±2 km s−1 velocity gradient over a size of ~70 au (blue-shifted emission towards the north-west and red-shifted emission towards the south-east) along the disc equatorial plane, in agreement with what was found so far using other molecular tracers.
Conclusions. The kinematics of CH3CHO and HDO are consistent with the occurrence of a centrifugal barrier, that is, the infalling envelope-rotating disc ring, which is chemically enriched through low-velocity accretion shocks. The emission radius is ~60 au, in good agreement with what was found before for another interstellar complex organic molecule such as NH2CHO. We support a vertical structure for the centrifugal barrier, suggesting the occurrence of two outflowing, expanding, and rotating rings above and below (of about 40–45 au) the optically thick equatorial disc plane. It is tempting to speculate that these rings could probe the basis of a wind launched from this region.
Key words: stars: formation / ISM: jets and outflows / ISM: molecules / ISM: individual objects: HH212
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