Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-22
Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) 839-852
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
40 pages, 3 tables and 10 figures included; to appear in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/427625
New high resolution observations of HCO+ J=1-0, H13CN J=1-0, SO 2,2 - 1,1, and continuum with BIMA at 3.4 mm show that the NGC7538 - IRS9 cloud core is a site of active ongoing star formation. Our observations reveal at least three young bipolar molecular outflows, all ~ 10,000 -- 20,000 years old. IRS9 drives a bipolar, extreme high velocity outflow observed nearly pole on. South of IRS9 we find a cold, protostellar condensation with a size of ~ 14" x 6" with a mass > 250 Msun. This is the center of one of the outflows and shows deep, red-shifted self absorption in HCO+, suggesting that there is a protostar embedded in the core, still in a phase of active accretion. This source is not detected in the far infrared, suggesting that the luminosity < 10^4 Lsun; yet the mass of the outflow is ~ 60 Msun. The red-shifted HCO+ self-absorption profiles observed toward the southern protostar and IRS9 predict accretion rates of a few times 10^-4 to 10^-3 Msun/yr. Deep VLA continuum observations at 3.6 cm show that IRS9 coincides with a faint thermal VLA source, but no other young star in the IRS9 region has any detectable free-free emission at a level of ~ 60 microJy at 3.6 cm. The HCO+ abundance is significantly enhanced in the hot IRS9 outflow. A direct comparison of mass estimates from HCO+ and CO for the well-characterized red-shifted IRS9 outflow predicts an HCO+ enhancement of more than a factor of 30, or [HCO+/H2] >= 6 10^-8.
Goss William Miller
Sandell Goeran
Wright Malcolm
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