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Outflow detection in a 70 $\mu$m dark high-mass core

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-09-21 v2

Abstract

We present observations towards a high-mass (>40M\rm >40\,M_{\odot}), low luminosity (<10L\rm <10\,L_{\odot}) 70μ\rm 70\,\mum dark molecular core G 28.34 S-A at 3.4 mm, using the IRAM 30 m telescope and the NOEMA interferometer. We report the detection of SiO\rm SiO J=21J=\rm 2\rightarrow1 line emission, which is spatially resolved in this source at a linear resolution of \sim0.1 pc, while the 3.4 mm continuum image does not resolve any internal sub-structures. The SiO emission exhibits two W-E oriented lobes centring on the continuum peak. Corresponding to the red-shifted and blue-shifted gas with velocities up to 40kms1\rm 40\,km\,s^{-1} relative to the quiescent cloud, these lobes clearly indicate the presence of a strong bipolar outflow from this 70μ\rm 70\,\mum dark core, a source previously considered as one of the best candidates of "starless" core. Our SiO detection is consistent with ALMA archival data of SiO\rm SiO J=54J=\rm 5\rightarrow4, whose high-velocity blue-shifted gas reveals a more compact lobe spatially closer to the dust center. This outflow indicates that the central source may be in an early evolutionary stage of forming a high-mass protostar. We also find that the low-velocity components (in the range of Vlsr\rm V_{lsr}5+3kms1\rm_{-5}^{+3}\,km\,s^{-1}) have an extended, NW-SE oriented distribution. Discussing the possible accretion scenarios of the outflow-powering young stellar object, we argue that the molecular line emission and the molecular outflows may provide a better indication of the accretion history when forming young stellar object, than that from a snapshot observations of the present bolometric luminosity. This is particularly significant for the cases of episodic accretion, which may occur during the collapse of the parent molecular core.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.01736,
  title  = {Outflow detection in a 70 $\mu$m dark high-mass core},
  author = {S. Feng and H. Beuther and Q. Zhang and H. B. Liu and Z. Zhang and K. Wang and K. Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01736},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ on Jan. 18th, 2016, accepted on May. 5th, 2016

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