English

ALMA observations and modeling of the rotating outflow in Orion Source I

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2020-12-09 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present 29^{29}SiO(J=8--7) ν\nu=0, SiS (J=19--18) ν\nu=0, and 28^{28}SiO (J=8--7) ν\nu=1 molecular line archive observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) of the molecular outflow associated with Orion Source I. The observations show velocity asymmetries about the flow axis which are interpreted as outflow rotation. We find that the rotation velocity (\sim4--8 km s1^{-1}) decreases with the vertical distance to the disk. In contrast, the cylindrical radius (\sim100--300 au), the expansion velocity (\sim2--15 km s1^{-1}), and the axial velocity vzv_{\rm z} (\sim-1--10 km s1^{-1}) increase with the vertical distance. The mass estimated of the molecular outflow Moutflow\mathrm{M}_{\rm outflow}\sim0.66--1.3 M_\odot. Given a kinematic time \sim130 yr, this implies a mass loss rate M˙outflow5.110×103\dot{\mathrm{M}}_{\rm outflow} \sim 5.1-10 \times 10^{-3} M_\odot yr1^{-1}. This massive outflow sets important contraints on disk wind models. We compare the observations with a model of a shell produced by the interaction between an anisotropic stellar wind and an Ulrich accretion flow that corresponds to a rotating molecular envelope in collapse. We find that the model cylindrical radii are consistent with the 29^{29}SiO(J=8--7) ν\nu=0 data. The expansion velocities and the axial velocities of the model are similar the observed values, except close to the disk (z±z\sim\pm150 au) for the expansion velocity. Nevertheless, the rotation velocities of the model are a factor \sim3--10 lower than the observed values. We conclude that the Ulrich flow alone cannot explain the rotation observed and other possibilities should be explored, like the inclusion of the angular momentum of a disk wind.

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@article{arxiv.2010.00132,
  title  = {ALMA observations and modeling of the rotating outflow in Orion Source I},
  author = {J. A. López-Vázquez and Luis A. Zapata and Susana Lizano and Jorge Cantó},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.00132},
  year   = {2020}
}