Are young stars always associated with cold massive disks? A CO and millimeter interferometric continuum survey

Details Are young stars always associated with cold massive disks? A CO and millimeter interferometric continuum survey Are young stars always associated with cold massive disks? A CO and millimeter interferometric continuum survey

Oct 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986inpr.conf...15m&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Ames Research Center Summer School on Interstellar Processes: Abstracts of Contributed Papers p 15-16 (SEE N87-15043 0

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Accretion Disks, Cosmic Dust, Interferometry, Protostars, Space Observations (From Earth), Star Formation, Stellar Envelopes, Astronomical Maps, Carbon Monoxide, Infrared Spectra, Millimeter Waves

Scientific paper

The results of a combined millimeter-spectral-line and continuum survey of cold far-infrared sources selected to favor embedded young stars in the Galaxy are presented. The spectral-line observations were performed with the 5 meter antenna of the University of Texas Millimeter-Wave Observatory. High resolution continuum observations were obtained with the Owens Valley (OVRO) Millimeter-Wave Interferometer. The goal of the survey was to gain insight into the mass, temperature, and distribution of cold dust which envelopes stars during the earliest stages of their evolution. The first phase of our survey involved 1.2 arcmin resolution observations of CO-12 and CO-13 emission lines toward each source. All but two sources had detectable CO emission. We found that 40% of the sources appear to be associated with star formation as evidenced by the presence of enhanced CO-12 line widths or broad wings. At least five of these objects are associated with bipolar molecular outflows. The second phase of our survey involves high resolution 2.7 mm continuum observations with 3 interferometer baselines ranging from 15 to 55 m in length. Preliminary results indicate that about 25% of the sources in our sample have detectable continuum emission on scales less than 30 arcsec. The high percentage of sources with enhanced CO-12 line widths or broad wings indicates that a significant fraction of our samples, 40%, are likely to be young stars. The lower detection percentage in the continuum observations, 25%, suggest that such objects are not always surrounded by large concentrations of gas and dust. The continuum detection percentage for actual dust emission could be lower than that given above since emission from ionized gas could be responsible for the observed 2.7 mm emission in some objects. To get an understanding of the type of object detected in our survey, a map of one of the survey sources, L1689N, has been made using the OVRO mm interferometer.

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