Warm SiO gas in molecular bullets associated with protostellar outflows

Details Warm SiO gas in molecular bullets associated with protostellar outflows Warm SiO gas in molecular bullets associated with protostellar outflows

2006-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610037v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11pages, 9 figures, A&A accepted

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065621

In this paper we present the first SiO multiline analysis (from J=2-1 to J=11-10) of the molecular bullets along the outflows of the Class 0 sources L1448-mm and L1157-mm, obtained through observations with IRAM and JCMT. We have computed the main physical parameters in each bullet and compared them with other tracers of warm and dense gas and with models for the SiO excitation in shocks. We find that the bullets close to L1448--mm, associated with high velocity gas, have higher excitation conditions (n(H2) ~ 10^{6} cm^{-3}, T > 500 K) with respect to the L1157 bullets (n(H2) ~1-5 10^{5} cm^{-3}, T ~ 100-300 K). In both the sources, there is a clear evidence of the presence of velocity components having different excitation conditions, with the denser and/or warmer gas associated with the gas at the higher speed. In L1448 the bulk of the emission is due to the high-excitation and high velocity gas, while in L1157 most of the emission comes from the low excitation gas at ambient velocity. The observed velocity-averaged line ratios are well reproduced by shocks with speeds v_s larger than ~ 30 km/s and densities ~ 10^{5} - 10^{6} cm^{-3}. Plane-parallel shock models, however, fail to predict all the observed line profiles and in particular the very similar profiles shown by both low and high excitation lines. The overall observations support the idea that the L1157 clumps are shock interaction events older than the L1448 bullets close to the driving source. In the latter objects, the velocity structure and the variations of physical parameters with the velocity resemble very closely those found in optical/IR jets near the protostar, suggesting that similar launching and excitation mechanisms are also at the origin of collimated jets seen at millimetre wavelengths.

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