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Multiple shells driven by disk winds: ALMA observations in the HH 30 outflow

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2023-12-11 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present archive Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6 observations of the 13^{13}CO (J=2-1) and 12^{12}CO (J=2-1) molecular line emission of the protostellar system associated with HH 30. The 13^{13}CO molecular line shows the accretion disk while the molecular outflow is traced by the emission of the 12^{12}CO molecular line. We estimated a dynamical mass for the central object of 0.45±0.140.45\pm0.14 M_\odot, and a mass for the molecular outflow of 1.83±0.19×1041.83\pm0.19\times10^{-4} M_\odot. The molecular outflow presents an internal cavity as well as multiple outflowing shell structures. We distinguish three different shells with constant expansion (46\sim4-6 km s1^{-1}) and possible rotation signatures (0.5\leq0.5 km s1^{-1}). We find that the shells can be explained by magnetocentrifugal disk winds with launching radii Rlaunch4R_\mathrm{launch}\lesssim4 au and a small magnetic lever arm λ1.61.9\lambda\sim1.6-1.9. The multiple shell structure may be the result of episodic ejections of the material from the accretion disk associated with three different epochs with dynamical ages of 497±15497\pm15 yr, 310±9310\pm9 yr, and 262±11262\pm11 yr for the first, second, and third shells, respectively. The outermost shell was ejected 187±17187\pm17 yr before the medium shell, while the medium shell was launched 48±1448\pm14 yr before the innermost shell. Our estimations of the linear and angular momentum rates of the outflow as well as the accretion luminosity are consistent with the expected values if the outflow of HH 30 is produced by a wide-angle disk wind.

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@article{arxiv.2312.03272,
  title  = {Multiple shells driven by disk winds: ALMA observations in the HH 30 outflow},
  author = {J. A. López-Vázquez and Chin-Fei Lee and M. Fernández-López and Fabien Louvet and O. Guerra-Alvarado and Luis A. Zapata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03272},
  year   = {2023}
}
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