Discovery of Asymmetric Spike-like Structures of the 10 au Disk around the Very Low-luminosity Protostar Embedded in the Taurus Dense Core MC 27/L1521F with ALMA

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Autori principali: Tokuda, Kazuki, Harada, Naoto, Omura, Mitsuki, Matsumoto, Tomoaki, Onishi, Toshikazu, Saigo, Kazuya, Shoshi, Ayumu, Nozaki, Shingo, Tachihara, Kengo, Fukaya, Naofumi, Fukui, Yasuo, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Machida, Masahiro N.
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author Tokuda, Kazuki
Harada, Naoto
Omura, Mitsuki
Matsumoto, Tomoaki
Onishi, Toshikazu
Saigo, Kazuya
Shoshi, Ayumu
Nozaki, Shingo
Tachihara, Kengo
Fukaya, Naofumi
Fukui, Yasuo
Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro
Machida, Masahiro N.
author_facet Tokuda, Kazuki
Harada, Naoto
Omura, Mitsuki
Matsumoto, Tomoaki
Onishi, Toshikazu
Saigo, Kazuya
Shoshi, Ayumu
Nozaki, Shingo
Tachihara, Kengo
Fukaya, Naofumi
Fukui, Yasuo
Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro
Machida, Masahiro N.
contents Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations have revealed an increasing number of compact protostellar disks with radii of less than a few tens of astronomical units and that young Class 0/I objects have an intrinsic size diversity. To deepen our understanding of the origin of such tiny disks, we performed the highest-resolution configuration observations with ALMA at a beam size of $\sim$0$''$03 (4 au) on the very low-luminosity Class 0 protostar embedded in the Taurus dense core MC 27/L1521F. The 1.3 mm continuum measurement successfully resolved a tiny, faint ($\sim$1 mJy) disk with a major axis length of $\sim$10 au, one of the smallest examples in the ALMA protostellar studies. In addition, we detected spike-like components in the northeastern direction at the disk edge. Gravitational instability or other fragmentation mechanisms cannot explain the structures, given the central stellar mass of $\sim$0.2 $M_{\odot}$ and the disk mass of $\gtrsim$10$^{-4}$ $M_{\odot}$. Instead, we propose that these small spike structures were formed by a recent dynamic magnetic flux transport event due to interchange instability that would be favorable to occur if the parental core has a strong magnetic field. The presence of complex arc-like structures on a larger ($\sim$2000 au) scale in the same direction as the spike structures suggests that the event was not single. Such episodic, dynamical events may play an important role in maintaining the compact nature of the protostellar disk in the complex gas envelope during the main accretion phase.
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spellingShingle Discovery of Asymmetric Spike-like Structures of the 10 au Disk around the Very Low-luminosity Protostar Embedded in the Taurus Dense Core MC 27/L1521F with ALMA
Tokuda, Kazuki
Harada, Naoto
Omura, Mitsuki
Matsumoto, Tomoaki
Onishi, Toshikazu
Saigo, Kazuya
Shoshi, Ayumu
Nozaki, Shingo
Tachihara, Kengo
Fukaya, Naofumi
Fukui, Yasuo
Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro
Machida, Masahiro N.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations have revealed an increasing number of compact protostellar disks with radii of less than a few tens of astronomical units and that young Class 0/I objects have an intrinsic size diversity. To deepen our understanding of the origin of such tiny disks, we performed the highest-resolution configuration observations with ALMA at a beam size of $\sim$0$''$03 (4 au) on the very low-luminosity Class 0 protostar embedded in the Taurus dense core MC 27/L1521F. The 1.3 mm continuum measurement successfully resolved a tiny, faint ($\sim$1 mJy) disk with a major axis length of $\sim$10 au, one of the smallest examples in the ALMA protostellar studies. In addition, we detected spike-like components in the northeastern direction at the disk edge. Gravitational instability or other fragmentation mechanisms cannot explain the structures, given the central stellar mass of $\sim$0.2 $M_{\odot}$ and the disk mass of $\gtrsim$10$^{-4}$ $M_{\odot}$. Instead, we propose that these small spike structures were formed by a recent dynamic magnetic flux transport event due to interchange instability that would be favorable to occur if the parental core has a strong magnetic field. The presence of complex arc-like structures on a larger ($\sim$2000 au) scale in the same direction as the spike structures suggests that the event was not single. Such episodic, dynamical events may play an important role in maintaining the compact nature of the protostellar disk in the complex gas envelope during the main accretion phase.
title Discovery of Asymmetric Spike-like Structures of the 10 au Disk around the Very Low-luminosity Protostar Embedded in the Taurus Dense Core MC 27/L1521F with ALMA
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00305