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Herschel: the first science highlights
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Herschel-PACS imaging of protostars in the HH 1-2 outflow complex
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W. J. Fischer1 - S. T. Megeath1 - B. Ali2 - J. J. Tobin3 - M. Osorio4 - L. E. Allen5 - E. Kryukova1 - T. Stanke6 - A. M. Stutz7,8 - E. Bergin3 - N. Calvet3 - J. Di Francesco9,10 - E. Furlan11 - L. Hartmann3 - T. Henning7 - O. Krause7 - P. Manoj12 - S. Maret13 - J. Muzerolle14 - P. Myers15 - D. Neufeld16 - K. Pontoppidan17 - C. A. Poteet1 - D. M. Watson12 - T. Wilson6
1 - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
2 - NHSC/IPAC/Caltech, 770 South Wilson Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
3 - Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 830 Dennison Building, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
4 - Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Camino Bajo de Huetor 50, 18008, Granada, Spain
5 - National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
6 - ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
7 - Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117
Heidelberg, Germany
8 - Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
9 - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, PO Box 355, STN CSC, Victoria BC, V8W 3P6, Canada
10 - National Research Council Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria BC, V9E 2E7, Canada
11 - Spitzer Fellow; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Mail Stop 264 767, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
12 - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
13 - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS, UMR 571, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France
14 - Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
15 - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
16 - Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
17 - Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences 150-21, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Received 31 March 2010 / Accepted 11 May 2010
Abstract
We present 70 and 160 m Herschel
science demonstration images of a field in the Orion A molecular cloud
that contains the prototypical Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and 2, obtained
with the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS). These
observations demonstrate Herschel's unprecedented ability to
study the rich population of protostars in the Orion molecular clouds
at the wavelengths where they emit most of their luminosity. The four
protostars previously identified by Spitzer 3.6-40
m imaging and spectroscopy are detected in the 70
m band, and three are clearly detected at 160
m.
We measure photometry of the protostars in the PACS bands and assemble
their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from 1 to 870
m with these data, Spitzer
spectra and photometry, 2MASS data, and APEX sub-mm data. The SEDs are
fit to models generated with radiative transfer codes. From these fits
we can constrain the fundamental properties of the protostars. We find
luminosities in the range 12-84
and envelope densities spanning over two orders of magnitude. This
implies that the four protostars have a wide range of envelope infall
rates and evolutionary states: two have dense, infalling envelopes,
while the other two have only residual envelopes. We also show the
highly irregular and filamentary structure of the cold dust and gas
surrounding the protostars as traced at 160
m.
Key words: stars: formation - stars: protostars - circumstellar matter - infrared: ISM - infrared: stars
1 Introduction
The Orion molecular clouds are the most active region of star formation within 500 pc of the Sun, where the Spitzer
Space Telescope identified over 400 likely protostars in the Orion A
and B clouds (Megeath et al., in prep.). The region is home to
both clustered and distributed star formation and hosts both high- and
low-mass protostars. The Herschel Space Observatory's
capabilities in the far infrared are crucial for sampling the expected
peak of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of protostars, which
are dominated by thermal emission from a cold (10 K)
envelope. Measuring the peak of the SED allows firm estimates of the
bolometric luminosities and envelope densities of the protostellar
systems.
With the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS, Poglitsch et al. 2010) aboard Herschel (Pilbratt et al. 2010), we have obtained 70 and 160 m images of a field in the Lynds 1641 region. The field contains the intermediate-mass Herbig B9e star V380 Ori (Hillenbrand et al. 1992), 28 infrared excess sources identified by observations with Spitzer (Megeath et al., in prep.), and a variety of outflow phenomena including the well-known HH 1 and 2 (e.g., Bally et al. 2002) and
8 protostellar outflows (e.g., Stanke et al. 2002). This is the science demonstration field for the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS), a 200-h open-time key program that will obtain PACS imaging of 133 fields, 5
to 8
in diameter, containing 278 protostars and PACS spectroscopy of a subset of 37 protostars.
Here, we present photometry of the four protostars in the Herschel field at 70 and 160 m and combine these data with Spitzer and ground-based data. With the radiative transfer code of Whitney et al. (2003), we generate model SEDs and find that the four protostars exhibit a large range of luminosities (
)
and envelope densities spanning over two orders of magnitude. This
implies that two protostars have dense, infalling envelopes, while the
other two have only residual envelopes.
2 Observations and data reduction
An 8
square field with central coordinates
,
(J2000) was observed on 2009 October 9 (observing day 148; observation IDs 1342185551 and 1342185552) in the 70
m (``blue'') and 160
m (``red'') bands available with PACS, which have angular resolutions of 5.2
and 12
,
respectively. We observed our target field with homogeneous coverage
using two orthogonal scanning directions and a scan speed of
/s.
Each scan was repeated 5 times for a total observation time of
1468 s per scan direction. The effective sampling rate of the
detectors is 10 Hz. The data were processed from raw telemetry to
final images with the Herschel common software system (HCSS) version 3.0 build 919, using version 4 of the flux calibration files
. We followed the standard processing steps for PACS data described by Poglitsch et al. (2010)
with these exceptions: We identified cosmic rays for each spatial sky
pixel as those values which were larger than 10 standard deviations
from the mean signal. Several extraneous calibration measurements were
interspersed with the HOPS target observations. These were masked and
removed from the data cube with an additional 430 readouts following
each of these calibration measurements to mask signal drifts induced by
the calibration source.
After the initial processing, the two orthogonal scan observations were combined for the final mapmaking step. Two different mapping approaches are used for this purpose: Method 1 is used exclusively for point source photometry, while Method 2 is used to display images.
Method 1: Mapping with local sky subtraction: first, we remove the signal drifts (whether correlated or due to the 1/f
noise) by subtracting a local ``sky'' value from each readout from each
bolometer pixel. The local sky is estimated as the median value within
a window of size 20
readouts. The final mosaic is then created by spatially averaging all
overlapping bolometer pixels using the HCSS routine ``photProject''. To
protect the integrity of the point source PSF, all readouts within 20
of
a point source are ignored during the sky median calculation. This
processing preserves all point and compact sources in the image and
provides the proper photometry comparison between HOPS target objects
and the flux calibration standards, which use the same reduction
scheme. However, this processing removes all emission at spatial scales
larger than the median window size.
Method 2: Mapping without local sky subtraction: Method 1 is necessary only for accurate photometry of point sources. We also create maps by removing only the pixel-to-pixel electronic offsets in PACS images, using the median value of the entire time stream of a single pixel to estimate its offset signal value. Unlike Method 1, this approach does not remove the (spatially) extended emission. However, it also does not mitigate the 1/f drifts, which add so-called ``striping'' or ``banding'' in the final maps. As for Method 1, we use the ``photProject'' HCSS routine to spatially coadd individual array readouts for mapmaking.
A image
of the field was acquired with NEWFIRM, the NOAO Extremely Wide Field
Infrared Imager, on the KPNO 4 m telescope, and the data were
reduced with the NOAO NEWFIRM Pipeline (Swaters et al. 2009). The on-source time was 11 min over most of the field of view. Images at 350 and 870
m
were acquired at APEX with SABOCA and LABOCA, respectively. The
observing and data reduction procedures for the APEX images are
described in Stanke et al. (2010).
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Figure 1:
Three-color composite image of the HH 1-2 region. Blue is NEWFIRM |
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3 Results
3.1 Imaging and photometry
Table 1: Protostar photometry.
Figure 1 shows a composite of the final map created using Method 2 for the 70 and 160 m PACS channels. Figures 2 and 3, available in electronic form only, show the separate 70 and 160
m images and are annotated with source names.
The bright blue source in the north of the field is the reflection
nebula NGC 1999; the dark tri-lobed feature seen toward this nebula is
discussed in Stanke et al. (2010).
In the center of the image is a triangular arrangement of protostars.
Here we use their designations for the HOPS program: 165, 166, 168, and
203. HOPS 166 (HH 147 MMS; Chini et al. 2001) is the relatively
isolated source at the northeastern corner of the triangle, HOPS 168
(HH 1-2 MMS 2) is at the western corner, and HOPS 165 and 203 are
the pair of overlapping sources (separated by 13
)
at the southern corner. HOPS 203 (HH 1-2 MMS 1), the brighter of
the pair in the PACS bands, is the source of the HH 1-2 outflow and
contains the radio sources VLA 1 and 2 (Rodriguez et al. 1990). Chini et al. report an additional source HH 1-2 MMS 3, 22
southwest of HOPS 168, that corresponds to extended emission at 160
m with no apparent point source at 70
m. Falling nearly along the line between HOPS 168 and 203 is the C-S star, a classical T Tauri star (Cohen & Schwartz 1979). To the southeast of HOPS 203 at
,
is a knot of emission presumably shock heated by the HH 2 outflow. At 160
m, only HOPS 166, 168, and 203 appear, while HOPS 165 is not detected. The 160
m band also traces cold dust in the surrounding cloud material, showing an irregular, filamentary structure.
PACS photometry of the four protostars appears in columns 9 and 10 of Table 1.
We obtained simple aperture photometry for the relatively isolated
protostars: HOPS 166 and 168 in the blue and red bands and HOPS 203 in
the red band. In these cases, we used a 16
aperture with subtraction of the median signal in a background annulus extending from 18
to 22
.
The results were corrected according to measurements of the encircled
energy fraction provided by the PACS consortium (priv. comm.).
For the HOPS 165/203 pair at 70 m,
point-spread function (PSF) fitting was required to separate the fluxes
of the two protostars. We fit the fainter HOPS 165 with a PSF
constructed from observations of Vesta (PACS consortium, priv. comm.).
Aperture photometry for HOPS 165 was performed on the best-fit PSF, and
aperture photometry for HOPS 203 was performed on the data after
subtraction of the HOPS 165 model. At 160
m,
we report an upper limit for HOPS 165; this is the largest flux density
for which a model PSF can be added at the source position before it
appears as an asymmetry in the HOPS 203 image.
According to Poglitsch et al. (2010),
the calibration accuracy for PACS is within 10% in the blue band and
better than 20% in the red. The formal uncertainties associated with
each source (i.e., the RMS of the signal in the sky annulus) are much
less, 1%, except for the case of HOPS 165, where fitting a point-spread function to a faint source yields a 10% uncertainty.
The PACS photometry data are supplemented by Spitzer IRAC and MIPS photometry (Megeath et al., in prep.), Spitzer IRS spectroscopy, and APEX SABOCA and LABOCA sub-mm photometry (Stanke et al. 2010). For HOPS 166, near-infrared J/H/K photometry was available from the Two Micron All Sky Survey. The Spitzer positions and 3.6-870
m photometry for the HOPS protostars appear in Table 1. Systematic uncertainties are given in a note to the table.
3.2 SED modeling
We use a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code (Whitney et al. 2003) to calculate model SEDs for the four protostars. The code features a central star and flared disk, which emit photons that can then be scattered or absorbed and re-emitted by dust in either the disk or an envelope. The envelope density is defined by the rotating collapse solution of Terebey et al. (1984), plus a bipolar, evacuated cavity.
We use the same dust model as Tobin et al. (2008), which contains larger dust grains than a standard ISM dust model. The grain size distribution is defined by a power law
,
with
.
We use dust grains composed of graphite
,
silicates
,
and water ice
;
abundances (
)
are relative to gas and imply a gas to dust ratio of 133. Our sub-mm opacities exceed those of the well-known Milky Way Case B (RV=5.5) mixture of Weingartner & Draine (2001) by a factor that reaches a maximum of 5 at 600
m.
The model parameters are set to typical values for low-mass protostars;
we fit the SEDs by varying seven of them: the system luminosity L, the reference envelope density
(Kenyon et al. 1993), the outer radius of the envelope
,
the opening angle of the envelope cavity
,
the mass of the disk
,
the inclination angle i, and the foreground extinction
.
(Foreground extinction is applied with the laws of McClure 2009,
suitable for star-forming regions.) In fitting the sources, we
emphasize the mid to far IR over the near IR, since the near IR is
highly dependent on the scattering properties of the dust, the geometry
of the inner disk, and the geometry of the outflow cavity. Thus, when
fitting a source we first adjust the luminosity and density to get the
best fit to the mid to far IR, then we find the best combination of
cavity opening angle, inclination, and (if necessary) foreground
reddening to fit the 10
m absorption feature and the near-IR emission. In general, the fits are insensitive to
and
.
However, for HOPS 165, it was necessary to adjust these two parameters.
The best-fit parameters were determined by visual comparison of the
models to the observed SEDs and are listed in Table 2.
The models are compared to the photometry and spectra in Fig. 4. For these models,
photons were run through the Monte Carlo code. The code generates output for apertures ranging from 1
to 16
in one-arcsecond steps, and the choice of aperture for the plotted SED
varies with wavelength, as given in the note to Table 1. An interpolation scheme bridges the gaps between disparate apertures. We assume a distance of 420 pc (Menten et al. 2007).
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Figure 4: Observed SEDs (black) with best-fit models (blue). Plus signs indicate 2MASS, Spitzer, and APEX photometry; the open triangle is an upper limit. Black curves show Spitzer spectra. Filled symbols indicate Herschel photometry: diamonds represent detections, while the filled triangle is an upper limit. |
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Table 2: Adopted model parameters.
4 Discussion
The Herschel observations have detected four protostars in the HH 1-2 region. All were previously identified with Spitzer (Megeath et al., in prep.), but Herschel
has cleanly separated the sources for the first time in the far IR,
allowing accurate photometry. From the luminosities and densities in
Table 2, we estimate the
infall rate from the envelope onto the central star-disk system, the
luminosity due to accretion onto the star, and the evolutionary state
for each protostar. Kenyon et al. (1993) show that for a protostellar envelope, the infall rate is
.
The accretion luminosity can then be written as
,
where
is the accretion rate from the disk onto the star. To estimate
and
,
we (initially) assume
,
and we adopt stellar radii, luminosities, and masses from the Siess et al. (2000) online models of pre-main-sequence stars at an age of
.
The final conclusions are not sensitive to the exact stellar parameters chosen.
HOPS 166 is modeled as a luminous star-disk system with a low-density
envelope seen through a few magnitudes of visual extinction. (The
modeled inclination of
is considered a lower limit; Eislöffel et al. 1994
find that the outflow associated with this source is close to the plane
of the sky.) The best-fitting central star from the Siess et al.
models has a mass of
,
implying an envelope infall rate of
and an accretion luminosity that is 20% of the total luminosity. The
low accretion luminosity and low envelope mass (inferred from the model
parameters) of only
imply that HOPS 166 is in the late stages of protostellar evolution and that the central star has accreted most of its mass. (Chini et al. 2001 classified this source as a deeply embedded Class 0 object based on SCUBA and IRAM mapping at 450, 850, and 1300
m.)
In contrast, HOPS 168 is much more embedded and luminous than HOPS 166. Its envelope mass is 2.7 .
The implied stellar mass is
,
the envelope infall rate is
,
and the accretion luminosity is more than 95% of the total. A star more massive than
is possible if
,
meaning infalling matter is piling up on the disk, leading to episodic accretion (e.g., Vorobyov & Basu 2005). For example, the central star could have a mass as high as
if
.
The two remaining protostars, HOPS 165 and HOPS 203, are separated by only 13
,
or a projected 5500 AU. The SED of HOPS 165 drops off precipitously beyond 30
m.
This requires a very small, tenuous envelope and a low-mass disk. The
flux from the moderately luminous star-disk system is seen behind
35 mag of visual extinction. Our interpretation is that HOPS
165 must be seen through the dense envelope of the nearby HOPS 203
(
). HOPS 203 itself is a 3
binary (Rodriguez et al. 1990).
If the proximity of HOPS 165 is not due to chance, this region is home
to a hierarchical multiple system of three protostars within a
projected radius of 5500 AU. Accordingly, the small envelope size
of the HOPS 165 model may result from its proximity to HOPS 203. The
implied stellar mass of HOPS 165 is
,
the envelope infall rate is
,
and the accretion luminosity is 10% of the total. On the other hand, the implied stellar mass of HOPS 203 is
,
the envelope infall rate is
,
and the accretion luminosity is more than 95% of the total. Again, the central star may have a higher mass if
.
We assume that the accretion is dominated by one member of the 3
binary, but the results will not change significantly if both accrete equally. The 160
m
PACS measurement for HOPS 203 exceeds the fit by a factor of 2; this
may be due to cold envelope material in our aperture that is not
accounted for in our models.
We conclude that two of the protostars (HOPS 168 and 203) are in an active state of mass infall and accretion, while the other two (HOPS 165 and 166) have only residual envelopes. This finding demonstrates Herschel's unique and critical contribution to the audit of the flow of mass from the outer protostellar envelope onto the central protostar.
AcknowledgementsThis work is based on observations made with the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency Cornerstone Mission with significant participation by NASA, and with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with NASA. Support for the Herschel and Spitzer analysis was provided by NASA through awards issued by JPL/Caltech. We are grateful to Barbara Whitney and her collaborators for making their radiative transfer code available to the community.
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Online Material
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Footnotes
- ... complex
- Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA. This work includes data acquired with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX; E-082.F-9807, E-284.C-5015). APEX is a collaboration between the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, the European Southern Observatory, and the Onsala Space Observatory.
- ...
- Figures 2 and 3 are only available in electronic format at http://www.aanda.org
- ... files
- HCSS is a joint development by the Herschel Science Ground Segment Consortium, consisting of ESA, the NASA Herschel Science Center, and the HIFI, PACS, and SPIRE consortia.
- ... Survey
- The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
All Tables
Table 1: Protostar photometry.
Table 2: Adopted model parameters.
All Figures
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Figure 1:
Three-color composite image of the HH 1-2 region. Blue is NEWFIRM |
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In the text |
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Figure 4: Observed SEDs (black) with best-fit models (blue). Plus signs indicate 2MASS, Spitzer, and APEX photometry; the open triangle is an upper limit. Black curves show Spitzer spectra. Filled symbols indicate Herschel photometry: diamonds represent detections, while the filled triangle is an upper limit. |
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In the text |
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Figure 2:
PACS 70 |
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Figure 3:
PACS 160 |
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