The Masses of the Orion Proplyds from Submillimeter Dust Emission

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2005-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506225v2

Astrophys.J. 634 (2005) 495-500

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/444493

We have imaged the 880 micron continuum emission from the "proplyds" in the center of the Trapezium Cluster in Orion using the Submillimeter Array with a beam size 1.5'' FWHM and an rms of 2.7 mJy. Five sources are detected with fluxes in the range 18 to 38 mJy, which includes dust emission from four proplyds and ionized gas from theta1 Ori G. The total masses of the detected proplyds derived from their dust emission range from 0.013 to 0.024 Msun assuming a dust temperature of 20 K and mass opacity of 0.03 cm^2/g. The eighteen other proplyds within the field-of-view were not formally detected individually, but by combining the fluxes measured at their locations, an average flux of 1.1mJy was determined for them on a statistical basis, corresponding to a mass of 8e-4 Msun. The four detected proplyds have sufficient disk mass bound to their central stars to form planetary systems on the scale of our Solar System.

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