The Circumstellar Structure and Excitation Effects around the Massive Protostar Cepheus A HW 2

Details The Circumstellar Structure and Excitation Effects around the Massive Protostar Cepheus A HW 2 The Circumstellar Structure and Excitation Effects around the Massive Protostar Cepheus A HW 2

2007-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/0707.3223v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/521675

We report SMA 335 GHz continuum observations with angular resolution of ~0.''3, together with VLA ammonia observations with ~1'' resolution toward Cep A HW 2. We find that the flattened disk structure of the dust emission observed by Patel et al. is preserved at the 0.''3 scale, showing an elongated structure of ~$0.''6 size (450 AU) peaking on HW 2. In addition, two ammonia cores are observed, one associated with a hot-core previously reported, and an elongated core with a double peak separated by ~1.''3 and with signs of heating at the inner edges of the gas facing HW 2. The double-peaked ammonia structure, as well as the double-peaked CH3CN structure reported previously (and proposed to be two independent hot-cores), surround both the dust emission as well as the double-peaked SO2 disk structure found by Jimenez-Serra et al. All these results argue against the interpretation of the elongated dust-gas structure as due to a chance-superposition of different cores; instead, they imply that it is physically related to the central massive object within a disk-protostar-jet system.

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