Forming Protostars in Molecular Clouds with Shocked Envelope Expansion and Core Collapse

Details Forming Protostars in Molecular Clouds with Shocked Envelope Expansion and Core Collapse Forming Protostars in Molecular Clouds with Shocked Envelope Expansion and Core Collapse

2010-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/1011.2248v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Spectral observations of molecular line profiles reveal the so-called `blue profiles' for double-peaked molecular lines with stronger blue and weaker red peaks as notable features for star-forming cloud core collapses under the self-gravity. In contrast, 25-30 per cent of observed molecular spectral line profiles in star-forming clouds or cores also show the so-called double-peaked `red profiles' with red peaks stronger than blue peaks. Gao & Lou (2010) show that these unexplained `red profiles' can be signatures of global dynamics for envelope expansion with core collapse (EECC) within star-forming molecular clouds or cores. We demonstrate here that spatially-resolved `red profiles' of HCO+ (J=1-0) and CS (J=2-1) molecular transitions from the low-mass star-forming cloud core FeSt 1-457 together with its radial profile of column density inferred from dust extinction observations appear to reveal a self-similar hydrodynamic shock phase for global EECC. Observed spectral profiles of C18O (J=1-0) are also fitted by the same EECC model. For further observational tests, the spatially-resolved profiles of molecular transitions HCO+ (J=3-2) and CS (J=3-2) as well as the radial profiles of (sub)millimetre continuum emissions at three wavelengths of 1.2mm, 0.85mm and 0.45mm from FeSt 1-457 are also predicted.

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