Tracing the envelopes around embedded low-mass young stellar objects with HCO+ and millimeter-continuum observations

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1997-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706082v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

45 pages, 10 figures, ApJ/AASLaTeX. To be published in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/304755

Interferometer observations of millimeter-continuum (OVRO) and single-dish observations of HCO+ and H13CO+ J=1-0, 3-2, and 4-3 (JCMT, IRAM 30m) are presented of nine embedded low-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) in Taurus. All nine objects are detected at 3.4 and 2.7 mm, with fluxes of 4-200 mJy, and consist of unresolved (<3 arcsec) point sources, plus, toward about half of the objects, an extended envelope. The point sources likely are circumstellar disks, showing that these are established early in the embedded phase. Literature values of 1.1 mm continuum emission are used to trace the envelopes, carrying 0.001-0.26 M(sol). In HCO+, the 1-0 lines trace the surrounding clouds, while the 3-2 and 4-3 are concentrated toward the sources with intensities well correlated with the envelope flux. An HCO+/H2 abundance of 1.2e-8 is derived. The HCO+ line strengths and envelope fluxes can be fit simultaneously with the simple collapse model of Shu (1977), and related density power laws with slopes p=1-3. As an indicator of the relative evolutionary phase of a YSO, the ratio of HCO+ 3-2 line intensity over bolometric luminosity is proposed, which is roughly proportional to the current ratio of envelope over stellar mass. It is concluded that HCO+ 3-2 and 4-3 are excellent tracers of the early embedded phase of star formation.

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