A bipolar outflow from the massive protostellar core W51e2-E

Details A bipolar outflow from the massive protostellar core W51e2-E A bipolar outflow from the massive protostellar core W51e2-E

2010-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/1006.4058v3

Astrophysical Journal Letters 718 (2010) L181-L184

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJL. v2: some typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1088/2041-8205/718/2/L181

We present high resolution images of the bipolar outflow from W51e2, which are produced from the Submillimeter Array archival data observed for CO(3-2) and HCN(4-3) lines with angular resolutions of 0.8" x 0.6" and 0.3" x 0.2", respectively. The images show that the powerful outflow originates from the protostellar core W51e2-E rather than from the ultracompact HII region W51e2-W. The kinematic timescale of the outflow from W51e2-E is about 1000 yr, younger than the age (~5000 yr) of the ultracompact HII region W51e2-W. A large mass loss rate of ~1 x 10^{-3} M_sun yr^{-1} and a high mechanical power of 120 L_sun are inferred, suggesting that an O star or a cluster of B stars are forming in W51e2-E. The observed outflow activity along with the inferred large accretion rate indicates that at present W51e2-E is in a rapid phase of star formation.

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