FAUST XXVII: The circumbinary disk and the outflow of the L 1551 IRS 5 binary system
Abstract
Using continuum and line data obtained from the large ALMA program FAUST, we studied the structure of the protostellar binary system L1551 IRS5 at scales between 30 and 3,000 au to constrain its properties, from the circumstellar and circumbinary disks up to the envelope and outflow scales, which exhibits complex and entangled structures at the scales of its inner and outer envelopes, presumably caused by the influence of the central binary. Assuming a dust-to-gas ratio of 100, we calculated the dust+gas mass for the circumbinary disk and each circumstellar disk of the binary, obtaining 0.018 M, for the circumbinary disk, 0.004 M, and 0.002 M, for the northern and southern circumstellar disk respectively. From the line emission, we retrieved the gas masses for each structure component. With the PV diagram along the circumbinary disk, we were able to constrain the centrifugal barrier, au, update the specific angular momentum, ~au~km~s. We built an analytical model that can be used to predict the influence of the morphology of the outflow and a few dynamic features that can reproduce the system emission, allowing us to explain and discern the outflow contribution from the complex emission due to the binary. Additionally, we inferred the density power law index, , and the envelope rotation velocity, ~km~s. Finally, the observations gave us the physical constraints to obtain a coherent outflow model for L1551 IRS5.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.11363,
title = {FAUST XXVII: The circumbinary disk and the outflow of the L 1551 IRS 5 binary system},
author = {Aurora Durán and Laurent Loinard and Pedro R. Rivera-Ortiz and Geovanni Cortés-Rangel and Eleonora Bianchi and Paola Caselli and Cecilia Ceccarelli and Claire J. Chandler and Claudio Codella and Nicolás Cuello and Marta De Simone and Tomoyuki Hanawa and Doug Johnstone and François Menard and Maria José Maureira and Anna Miotello and Linda Podio and Takeshi Sakai and Giovanni Sabatini and Leonardo Testi and Charlotte Vastel and Ziwei Zhang and Nami Sakai and Satoshi Yamamoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11363},
year = {2025}
}