A survey of SiO 5-4 emission towards outflows from low-luminosity protostellar candidates

Details A survey of SiO 5-4 emission towards outflows from low-luminosity protostellar candidates A survey of SiO 5-4 emission towards outflows from low-luminosity protostellar candidates

2003-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311456v1

Astrophys.J. 603 (2004) 198-212

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, inc 10 B&W figures. Uses emulateapj5.sty. Accepted for publication in ApJ, scheduled for 1 March 2004 issue

Scientific paper

10.1086/381309

We have observed the SiO J=5--4 line towards a sample of 25 low-luminosity (L* < 10^3 Lsun) protostellar outflow systems. The line was detected towards 7 of the 25 sources, a detection rate of 28 per cent. The majority (5 out of 7) of sources detected were of class 0 status. We detected a higher fraction of class 0 sources compared with the class I and II sources, although given the small numbers involved the significance of this result should be regarded as tentative. Most of the detected sources showed emission either at or close to the central position, coincident with the protostar. In four cases (HH211, HH25MMS, V-380 OriNE and HH212) emission was also detected at positions away from the center, and was stronger than that observed at the centre position. SiO abundances of 10^(-8) to 8x10^(-7) are derived from LTE analysis. For 2 sources we have additional transitions which we use to conduct statistical equilibrium modeling to estimate the gas density in the SiO-emitting regions. For HH25MMS these results suggest that the SiO emission arises in a higher-density region than the methanol previously observed. We find that the most likely explanation for the preferential detection of SiO emission towards class 0 sources is the greater density of those environments, reinforced by higher shock velocities. We conclude that while not all class 0 sources exhibit SiO emission, SiO emission is a good signpost for the presence of class 0 sources.

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