Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-02-20
Astrophys.J.662:431-442,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
31 pages (incl. 9 figures), accepted by ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/513589
(Abridged) With the SMA we have made high angular-resolution (~1" = 160 AU) observations of the protobinary system IRAS 16293-2422 in the J = 4-3 lines of HCN and HC^15N, and in the continuum at 354.5 GHz. The HCN (4-3) line was also observed using the JCMT to supply missing short spacing information. Submillimeter continuum emission is detected from the individual binary components with a separation of ~5". The HC^15N (4-3) emission has revealed a compact (~500 AU) flattened structure (P.A. = -16 degree) associated with Source A, and shows a velocity gradient along the projected minor axis, which can be interpreted as an infalling gas motion. Our HCN image including the short-spacing information shows an extended (~3000 AU) circumbinary envelope as well as the compact structure associated with Source A. A toy model consisting of a flattened structure with radial infall towards a 1 Msun central star reproduces the HCN/HC^15N position-velocity diagram along the minor axis of the HC^15N emission. In the extended envelope there is also a North-East (Blue) to South-West (Red) velocity gradient across the binary alignment, which is likely to reflect gas motion in the swept-up dense gas associated with the molecular outflow from Source A. At Source B, there is only a weak compact structure with much narrower line widths (~2 km/s) seen in the optically-thin HC^15N emission than that at Source A (>10 km/s), and there is no clearly defined bipolar molecular outflow associated with Source B. These results imply the different evolutionary stages between Source A and B in the common circumbinary envelope.
Bourke Tyler
Hirano Naomi
Ho Paul T. P.
Jorgensen Jes
Kuan Yi-Jehng
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