A Rotating Circumstellar Disk Around a High-Mass Protostar in IRAS 18162-2048

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011mwac.meet..t05f&link_type=abstract

Midwest Astrochemistry Meeting 2011, held 21-22 October at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://midwest.astroc

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Searching for molecular tracers of disks in massive star-formation regions is a complex task. There are molecules that show emission from the envelope and the disk simultaneously. Other molecules show optically thick emission, thus complicating the kinematic study of disks. On the other hand, S-bearing species (such as H2S, SO, SO2, CS, and OCS) could be intimately linked with the evaporation process of the disk surface becoming good tracers of the dynamics of the innermost parts of the high-mass protostars. Recently, several papers have been published on the detection of S-bearing species in disks and other warm gas structures of massive star-forming regions. In particular, SO2 transitions, ubiquitous within the (sub)millimeter range, show a very compact nature, suggesting their close association with circumstellar structures.
We have carried out sub-arcsecond SMA observations towards the central region of the HH 80-81 system. The mm continuum emission shows two main sources, one of them located at the center of the extremely large (5.3 pc long) bipolar radio continuum jet observed in this region. The dust emission appears compact and coincides with a radio continuum source. Between the spectral lines detected (H2CO and SO), the SO2 line transitions show compact emission toward this source. These molecular lines clearly show a velocity gradient perpendicular to the radio jet axis. Both, the dust continuum and the molecular line emission suggest the existence of a rotating circumstellar disk around a massive protostar.

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