Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-12-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
ApJ, accepted. 70 pages including 22 figures and 7 tables. Figures compressed
Scientific paper
We present high angular resolution Submillimeter Array (SMA) and Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) observations of two GLIMPSE Extended Green Objects (EGOs)--massive young stellar object (MYSO) outflow candidates identified based on their extended 4.5 micron emission in Spitzer images. The mm observations reveal bipolar molecular outflows, traced by high-velocity 12CO(2-1) and HCO+(1-0) emission, coincident with the 4.5 micron lobes in both sources. SiO(2-1) emission confirms that the extended 4.5 micron emission traces active outflows. A single dominant outflow is identified in each EGO, with tentative evidence for multiple flows in one source (G11.92-0.61). The outflow driving sources are compact millimeter continuum cores, which exhibit hot-core spectral line emission and are associated with 6.7 GHz Class II methanol masers. G11.92-0.61 is associated with at least three compact cores: the outflow driving source, and two cores that are largely devoid of line emission. In contrast, G19.01-0.03 appears as a single MYSO. The difference in multiplicity, the comparative weakness of its hot core emission, and the dominance of its extended envelope of molecular gas all suggest that G19.01-0.03 may be in an earlier evolutionary stage than G11.92-0.61. Modeling of the G19.01-0.03 spectral energy distribution suggests that a central (proto)star (M ~10 Msun) has formed in the compact mm core (Mgas ~ 12-16 Msun), and that accretion is ongoing at a rate of ~10^-3 solar masses per year. Our observations confirm that these EGOs are young MYSOs driving massive bipolar molecular outflows, and demonstrate that considerable chemical and evolutionary diversity are present within the EGO sample.
Brogan Crystal L.
Churchwell Edward
Cyganowski Claudia J.
Hunter Todd Russell
Zhang Qian
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