Water in massive star-forming regions: HIFI observations of W3 IRS5
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010
We present Herschel observations of the water molecule in the massive star-forming region W3 IRS5. The o-H\_2^17O 1_10-1_01, p-H\_2^18O 1_11-0_00, p-H_2O 2_02-1_11, p-H_2O 1_11-0_00, o-H_2O 2_21-2_12, and o-H_2O 2_12-1_01 lines, covering a frequency range from 552 up to 1669 GHz, have been detected at high spectral resolution with HIFI. The water lines in W3 IRS5 show well-defined high-velocity wings that indicate a clear contribution by outflows. Moreover, the systematically blue-shifted absorption in the H_2O lines suggests expansion, presumably driven by the outflow. No infall signatures are detected. The p-H_2O 1_11-0_00 and o-H_2O 2_12-1_01 lines show absorption from the cold material (T ~ 10 K) in which the high-mass protostellar envelope is embedded. One-dimensional radiative transfer models are used to estimate water abundances and to further study the kinematics of the region. We show that the emission in the rare isotopologues comes directly from the inner parts of the envelope (T \gsim 100 K) where water ices in the dust mantles evaporate and the gas-phase abundance increases. The resulting jump in the water abundance (with a constant inner abundance of 10^-4) is needed to reproduce the o-H\_2^17O 1_10-1_01 and p-H\_2^18O 1_11-0_00 spectra in our models. We estimate water abundances of 10^-8 to 10^-9 in the outer parts of the envelope (T \lsim 100 K). The possibility of two protostellar objects contributing to the emission is discussed. Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
Författare
L. Chavarría
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
F. Herpin
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
T. Jacq
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
J. Braine
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
S. Bontemps
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
A. Baudry
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
M. Marseille
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
F. F. S. van der Tak
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
B. Pietropaoli
Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
F. Wyrowski
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
R. Shipman
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
W. Frieswijk
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
E. F. van Dishoeck
Universiteit Leiden
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
J. Cernicharo
Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)
R. Bachiller
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN)
M. Benedettini
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome
A. O. Benz
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)
E. A. Bergin
University of Michigan
Per Bjerkeli
Chalmers, Institutionen för radio- och rymdvetenskap, Radioastronomi och astrofysik
G. A. Blake
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
S. Bruderer
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)
P. Caselli
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
University of Leeds
C. Codella
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
F. Daniel
Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)
A. M. di Giorgio
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome
C. Dominik
Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy
Radboud Universiteit
S. Doty
Denison University
P. Encrenaz
LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique et Atmospheres
M. Fich
University of Waterloo
A. Fuente
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN)
T. Giannini
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
J. R. Goicoechea
Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)
T. de Graauw
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
P. Hartogh
MPI für Sonnensystemforschung
F. Helmich
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
G. J. Herczeg
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
M. R. Hogerheijde
Universiteit Leiden
D. Johnstone
University of Victoria
National Research Council Canada
J. K. Jorgensen
Köpenhamns universitet
L. Kristensen
Universiteit Leiden
B. Larsson
Stockholms universitet
D. Lis
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
René Liseau
Chalmers, Institutionen för radio- och rymdvetenskap, Radioastronomi och astrofysik
C. McCoey
University of Waterloo
Western University
G. J. Melnick
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
B. Nisini
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Michael Olberg
Chalmers, Institutionen för radio- och rymdvetenskap, Nationella anläggningen för radioastronomi
B. Parise
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
J. C. Pearson
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
R. Plume
University of Calgary
C. Risacher
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
J. Santiago-García
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
P. Saraceno
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome
J. Stutzki
Universität zu Köln
R. Szczerba
Polish Academy of Sciences
M. Tafalla
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN)
A. Tielens
Universiteit Leiden
T. A. van Kempen
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
R. Visser
Universiteit Leiden
S. F. Wampfler
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)
J. Willem
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
U. A. Yildiz
Universiteit Leiden
Astronomy and Astrophysics
0004-6361 (ISSN) 1432-0746 (eISSN)
Vol. 521 1 L37+- L37Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
Fundament
Grundläggande vetenskaper
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/201015113