Fine structure and kinematics of the ionized and molecular gas in the jet and disk around S255IR NIRS3 from high resolution ALMA observations

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Autori principali: Zinchenko, I. I., Liu, S. -Y., Su, Y. -N.
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author Zinchenko, I. I.
Liu, S. -Y.
Su, Y. -N.
author_facet Zinchenko, I. I.
Liu, S. -Y.
Su, Y. -N.
contents We present observations of the high-mass star-forming region S255IR, which harbors the $\sim$20 M$_\odot$ protostar NIRS3, where a disk-mediated accretion burst was recorded several years ago, with the angular resolution of $\sim$15 mas, which corresponds to $\sim$25 au and is almost an order of magnitude better than in the previous studies of this object. The observations were performed with ALMA at a wavelength of 0.9 mm in continuum and in several molecular lines. In the continuum we detected the central bright source (brightness temperature $\sim$850 K) elongated along the jet direction and two pairs of bright knots in the jet lobes. These pairs of knots imply a double ejection from NIRS3 with the time interval of $\sim$1.5 years. The orientation of the jet differs by $\sim$20$^\circ$ from that on larger scales, as mentioned also in some other recent works. The 0.9 mm continuum emission of the central source represents a mixture of the dust thermal emission and free-free emission of the ionized gas. Properties of the free-free emission are typical for hypercompact H II regions. In the continuum emission of the knots in the jet the free-free component apparently dominates. In the molecular lines a sub-Keplerian disk around NIRS3 about 400 au in diameter is observed. The absorption features in the molecular lines towards the central bright source may indicate an infall. The molecular line emission appears very inhomogeneous at small scales, which may indicate a small-scale clumpiness in the disk.
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spellingShingle Fine structure and kinematics of the ionized and molecular gas in the jet and disk around S255IR NIRS3 from high resolution ALMA observations
Zinchenko, I. I.
Liu, S. -Y.
Su, Y. -N.
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We present observations of the high-mass star-forming region S255IR, which harbors the $\sim$20 M$_\odot$ protostar NIRS3, where a disk-mediated accretion burst was recorded several years ago, with the angular resolution of $\sim$15 mas, which corresponds to $\sim$25 au and is almost an order of magnitude better than in the previous studies of this object. The observations were performed with ALMA at a wavelength of 0.9 mm in continuum and in several molecular lines. In the continuum we detected the central bright source (brightness temperature $\sim$850 K) elongated along the jet direction and two pairs of bright knots in the jet lobes. These pairs of knots imply a double ejection from NIRS3 with the time interval of $\sim$1.5 years. The orientation of the jet differs by $\sim$20$^\circ$ from that on larger scales, as mentioned also in some other recent works. The 0.9 mm continuum emission of the central source represents a mixture of the dust thermal emission and free-free emission of the ionized gas. Properties of the free-free emission are typical for hypercompact H II regions. In the continuum emission of the knots in the jet the free-free component apparently dominates. In the molecular lines a sub-Keplerian disk around NIRS3 about 400 au in diameter is observed. The absorption features in the molecular lines towards the central bright source may indicate an infall. The molecular line emission appears very inhomogeneous at small scales, which may indicate a small-scale clumpiness in the disk.
title Fine structure and kinematics of the ionized and molecular gas in the jet and disk around S255IR NIRS3 from high resolution ALMA observations
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00116