Streamers bring gas from outer regions to protostellar systems and could change the chemical composition around protostars and protoplanetary disks. We have carried out mapping observations of carbon-chain species (HC3N, HC5N, CCH, and CCS) in the 3mm and 7mm bands toward the streamer flowing to the Class 0 young stellar object (YSO) Per-emb-2 with the Nobeyama 45m radio telescope. A region with a diameter of ∼0.04 pc is located north with a distance of ∼20,500 au from the YSO. The streamer connects to this north region which is the origin of the streamer. The reservoir has high density and low temperature (nH2≈1.9×104 cm−3, Tkin=10 K), which are similar to those of early stage starless cores. By comparisons with the observed abundance ratios of CCS/HC3N to the chemical simulations, the reservoir and streamer are found to be chemically young. The total mass available for the streamer is derived to be 24−34 M⊙. If all of the gas in the reservoir will accrete onto the Per-emb-2 protostellar system, the lifetime of the streamer has been estimated at (1.1−3.2)×105 yr, suggesting that the mass accretion via the streamer would continue until the end of the Class I stage.
@article{arxiv.2402.19099,
title = {The Reservoir of the Per-emb-2 Streamer},
author = {Kotomi Taniguchi and Jaime E Pineda and Paola Caselli and Tomomi Shimoikura and Rachel K. Friesen and Dominique M. Segura-Cox and Anika Schmiedeke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.19099},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Accepted for The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), 18 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables