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A Keplerian disk around Orion Source I, a ~15 Msun YSO

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-07-04 v1

Abstract

We report ALMA long-baseline observations of Orion Source I (SrcI) with resolution 0.03-0.06" (12-24 AU) at 1.3 and 3.2 mm. We detect both continuum and spectral line emission from SrcI's disk. We also detect a central weakly resolved source that we interpret as a hot spot in the inner disk, which may indicate the presence of a binary system. The high angular resolution and sensitivity of these observations allow us to measure the outer envelope of the rotation curve of the H2_2O 55,064,35_{5,0}-6_{4,3} line, which gives a mass MI15±2M_I\approx15\pm2 Msun. We detected several other lines that more closely trace the disk, but were unable to identify their parent species. Using centroid-of-channel methods on these other lines, we infer a similar mass. These measurements solidify SrcI as a genuine high-mass protostar system and support the theory that SrcI and the Becklin Neugebauer Object were ejected from the dynamical decay of a multiple star system \sim500 years ago, an event that also launched the explosive molecular outflow in Orion.

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@article{arxiv.1804.10622,
  title  = {A Keplerian disk around Orion Source I, a ~15 Msun YSO},
  author = {Adam Ginsburg and John Bally and Ciriaco Goddi and Richard Plambeck and Melvyn Wright},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10622},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted to ApJ. Data at https://zenodo.org/record/1213350, source repository at https://github.com/keflavich/Orion_ALMA_2016.1.00165.S

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