Starless Cloud Core L1517B in Envelope Expansion with Core Collapse

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2011-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/1108.2556v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

18 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Various spectral emission lines from star-forming molecular cloud core L1517B manifest red asymmetric double-peaked profiles with stronger red peaks and weaker blue peaks, in contrast to the oft-observed blue-skewed molecular spectral line profiles with blue peaks stronger than red peaks. Invoking a spherically symmetric general polytropic hydrodynamic shock model for the envelope expansion with core collapse (EECC) phase, we show the radial flow velocity, mass density and temperature structures of self-similar evolution for L1517B in a dynamically consistent manner. By prescribing simple radial profiles of abundance distribution for pertinent molecules, we perform molecular excitation and radiative transfer calculations using the publicly available RATRAN code set for the spherically symmetric case. Our computational results show that the EECC model reproduces molecular spectral line profiles in sensible agreement with observational data of IRAM, FCRAO and Effelsberg 100 m telescopes for L1517B. We also report spatially resolved observations of optically thick line HCO+(1-0) using the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) 13.7 m telescope at Delingha in China and the relevant fitting results. Hyperfine line structures of NH3 and N2H+ transitions are also fitted to consistently reveal the dynamics of central core collapse. As a consistent model check, radial profiles of 1.2 mm and 0.85 mm dust continua observed by IRAM 30 m telescope and SCUBA, respectively, are also fitted numerically using the same EECC model that produces the molecular line profiles. L1517B is likely undergoing an EECC shock phase. For future observational tests, we also predict several molecular line profiles with spatial distributions, radial profile of sub-millimeter continuum at wavelength 0.45mm, as well as the radial profiles of the column density and visual extinction for L1517B.

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