Water in low-mass star-forming regions with Herschel. HIFI spectroscopy of NGC 1333
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010

"Water In Star-forming regions with Herschel" (WISH) is a key programme dedicated to studying the role of water and related species during the star-formation process and constraining the physical and chemical properties of young stellar objects. The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI) on the Herschel Space Observatory observed three deeply embedded protostars in the low-mass star-forming region NGC 1333 in several H216O, H218O, and CO transitions. Line profiles are resolved for five H216O transitions in each source, revealing them to be surprisingly complex. The line profiles are decomposed into broad (>20 kms-1), medium-broad (~5-10 kms-1), and narrow (<5 kms-1) components. The H218O emission is only detected in broad 110-101 lines (>20 kms-1), indicating that its physical origin is the same as for the broad H216O component. In one of the sources, IRAS4A, an inverse P Cygni profile is observed, a clear sign of infall in the envelope. From the line profiles alone, it is clear that the bulk of emission arises from shocks, both on small (\lap1000 AU) and large scales along the outflow cavity walls (~10 000 AU). The H2O line profiles are compared to CO line profiles to constrain the H2O abundance as a function of velocity within these shocked regions. The H2O/CO abundance ratios are measured to be in the range of ~0.1-1, corresponding to H2O abundances of ~10-5-10-4 with respect to H2. Approximately 5-10% of the gas is hot enough for all oxygen to be driven into water in warm post-shock gas, mostly at high velocities.

astrochemistry

stars: formation

ISM: jets and outflows

ISM: molecules

ISM: individual objects: NGC 1333

Författare

L. Kristensen

Universiteit Leiden

R. Visser

Universiteit Leiden

E. F. van Dishoeck

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Universiteit Leiden

U. A. Yildiz

Universiteit Leiden

S. Doty

Denison University

G. J. Herczeg

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

F.-C. Liu

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

B. Parise

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

J. K. Jorgensen

Köpenhamns universitet

T. A. van Kempen

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

C. Brinch

Universiteit Leiden

S. F. Wampfler

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)

S. Bruderer

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)

A. O. Benz

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)

M. R. Hogerheijde

Universiteit Leiden

E. Deul

Universiteit Leiden

R. Bachiller

Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN)

A. Baudry

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux

M. Benedettini

Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome

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. Bontemps

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux

J. Braine

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux

P. Caselli

University of Leeds

Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

J. Cernicharo

Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)

C. Codella

Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

F. Daniel

Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB)

T. de Graauw

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

A. M. di Giorgio

Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome

C. Dominik

Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy

Radboud Universiteit

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)

F. Helmich

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

F. Herpin

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux

T. Jacq

Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux

D. Johnstone

University of Victoria

National Research Council Canada

M. J. Kaufman

San Jose State University

B. Larsson

Stockholms universitet

D. Lis

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

René Liseau

Chalmers, Institutionen för radio- och rymdvetenskap, Radioastronomi och astrofysik

M. Marseille

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

C. McCoey

University of Waterloo

Western University

G. J. Melnick

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

D. A. Neufeld

Johns Hopkins University

B. Nisini

Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma

Michael Olberg

Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium

J. C. Pearson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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

R. Shipman

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

M. Tafalla

Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN)

Aggm Tielens

Universiteit Leiden

F. F. S. van der Tak

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

F. Wyrowski

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

D. Beintema

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

A. de Jonge

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

P. Dieleman

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

V. Ossenkopf

Universität zu Köln

P. Roelfsema

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

J. Stutzki

Universität zu Köln

N. Whyborn

Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

0004-6361 (ISSN) 1432-0746 (eISSN)

Vol. 521 1 Art. Nr. L30- L30

Ämneskategorier

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

DOI

10.1051/0004-6361/201015100

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