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Sulfur-Bearing Species Tracing the Disk/Envelope System in the Class I Protostellar Source Elias 29

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2019-09-04 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We have observed the Class I protostellar source Elias 29 with Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We have detected CS, SO, 34^{34}SO, SO2_2, and SiO line emissions in a compact component concentrated near the protostar and a ridge component separated from the protostar by 4\arcsec\ (500\sim 500 au). The former component is found to be abundant in SO and SO2_2 but deficient in CS. The abundance ratio SO/CS is as high as 32+13×1023^{+13}_{-2} \times 10^2 at the protostar, which is even higher than that in the outflow-shocked region of L1157 B1. However, organic molecules (HCOOCH3_3, CH3_3OCH3_3, CCH, and c-C3_3H2_2) are deficient in Elias 29. We attribute the deficiency in organic molecules and richness in SO and SO2_2 to the evolved nature of the source or the relatively high dust temperature (\protect\raisebox{-0.7ex}{>\:\stackrel{\textstyle >}{\sim}\:} 20 K) in the parent cloud of Elias 29. The SO and SO2_2 emissions trace rotation around the protostar. Assuming a highly inclined configuration (i65i \geq 65\degr; 0\degr\ for a face-on configuration) and Keplerian motion for simplicity, the protostellar mass is estimated to be (0.8 -- 1.0) \Msun. The 34^{34}SO and SO2_2 emissions are asymmetric in their spectra; the blue-shifted components are weaker than the red-shifted ones. Although this may be attributed to the asymmetric molecular distribution, other possibilities are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1906.09724,
  title  = {Sulfur-Bearing Species Tracing the Disk/Envelope System in the Class I Protostellar Source Elias 29},
  author = {Yoko Oya and Ana López-Sepulcre and Nami Sakai and Yoshimasa Watanabe and Aya E. Higuchi and Tomoya Hirota and Yuri Aikawa and Takeshi Sakai and Cecilia Ceccarelli and Bertrand Lefloch and Emmanuel Caux and Charlotte Vastel and Claudine Kahane and Satoshi Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09724},
  year   = {2019}
}