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L483: Warm Carbon-Chain Chemistry Source Harboring Hot Corino Activity

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2017-03-22 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The Class 0 protostar, L483, has been observed in various molecular lines in the 1.2 mm band at a sub-arcsecond resolution with ALMA. An infalling-rotating envelope is traced by the CS line, while a very compact component with a broad velocity width is observed for the CS, SO, HNCO, NH2_2CHO, and HCOOCH3_3 lines. Although this source is regarded as the warm carbon-chain chemistry (WCCC) candidate source at a 1000 au scale, complex organic molecules characteristic of hot corinos such as NH2_2CHO and HCOOCH3_3 are detected in the vicinity of the protostar. Thus, both hot corino chemistry and WCCC are seen in L483. Although such a mixed chemical character source has been recognized as an intermediate source in previous single-dish observations, we here report the first spatially-resolved detection. A kinematic structure of the infalling-rotating envelope is roughly explained by a simple ballistic model with the protostellar mass of 0.1--0.2 MM_\odot and the radius of the centrifugal barrier (a half of the centrifugal radius) of 30--200 au, assuming the inclination angle of 80\degr\ (0\degr\ for a face-on). The broad line emission observed in the above molecules most likely comes from the disk component inside the centrifugal barrier. Thus, a drastic chemical change is seen around the centrifugal barrier.

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@article{arxiv.1703.03653,
  title  = {L483: Warm Carbon-Chain Chemistry Source Harboring Hot Corino Activity},
  author = {Yoko Oya and Nami Sakai and Yoshimasa Watanabe and Aya E. Higuchi and Tomoya Hirota and Ana López-Sepulcre and Takeshi Sakai and Yuri Aikawa and Cecilia Ceccarelli and Bertrand Lefloch and Emmanuel Caux and Charlotte Vastel and Claudine Kahane and Satoshi Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.03653},
  year   = {2017}
}

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accepted to ApJ