Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-19
Astrophys.J. 642 (2006) 330-338
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
ApJ Accepted. 24 pages
Scientific paper
10.1086/500925
We present BIMA and SCUBA observations of the young cluster associated with BD +40 4124 in the dense molecular gas tracer CS J=2-1 and the continuum dust continuum at 3.1 mm and 850 micron. The dense gas and dust in the system is aligned into a long ridge morphology extending ~0.4 pc with 16 gas clumps of estimated masses ranging from 0.14 - 1.8 Solar masses. A north-south variation in the CS center line velocity can be explained with a two cloud model. We posit that the BD +40 4124 stellar cluster formed from a cloud-cloud collision. The largest linewidths occur near V1318 Cyg-S, a massive star affecting its natal environment. In contrast, the dense gas near the other, more evolved, massive stars displays no evidence for disruption; the material must either be processed into the star, dissipate, or relax, fairly quickly. The more evolved low-mass protostars are more likely to be found near the massive stars. If the majority of low-mass stars are coeval, the seemingly evolved low-mass protostars are not older: the massive stars have eroded their structures. Finally, at the highest resolution, the 3.1 mm dust emission is resolved into a flattened structure 3100 by 1500 AU with an estimated mass of 3.4 Solar masses. The continuum and CS emission are offset by 1.1 arcsec from the southern binary source. A simple estimate of the extinction due to the continuum emission structure is AV = 700 mag. From the offset and as the southern source is detected in the optical, the continuum emission is from a previously unknown very young, intermediate-mass, embedded stellar object. (see high resolution figures at http://eeyore.astro.uiuc.edu/~lwl/recent/bd40.pdf).
Hamidouche Murad
Klein Ralf
Looney Leslie W.
Safier Pedro N.
Wang Shuang
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