IRAS 23385+6053: A Prototype Massive Class 0 Object

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1998-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807251v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1086/311591

IRAS 23385+6053 is a Young Stellar Object with luminosity 16,000 solar luminosities at a kinematic distance of 4.9 kpc. This candidate precursor of an ultracompact HII region is associated with a millimeter source detected at the JCMT but is undetected at centimeter wavelengths with the VLA. We observed this source with the OVRO millimeter array at 3.4 mm in the continuum, HCO+(1-0), H13CO+(1-0) and SiO(v=0, 2-1) line emission, and with CAM aboard ISO at 6.75 and 15 um. The IRAS source is coincident with a 3.4 mm compact (r~0.048 pc) and massive (M~370 solar masses) core, which is undetected at 15 um to a 3 sigma level of 6 mJy; this is compatible with the derived H2 column density of 2x10(24) and the estimated visual extinction of about 2000 mag. We find L(submm)/L(bol)>10(-3) and M(env)/M(star)>>1, typical of Class 0 objects. The source is also associated with a compact outflow characterized by a size similar to the core radius, a dynamical timescale of about 7,000 years, and a mass loss rate of about 10(-3) solar masses/year. The axis of the outflow is oriented nearly perpendicular to the plane of the sky, ruling out the possibility that the non-detection at 15 um is the result of a geometric effect. All these properties suggest that IRAS 23385+6053 is the first example of a bona fide massive Class 0 object.

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