期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 715, 期 2, 页码 1344-1351出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1344
关键词
ISM: clouds; ISM: individual objects (L1448, L1448IRS2, L1448IRS2E); ISM: jets and outflows; stars: formation
资金
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0845619] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Intermediate between the prestellar and Class 0 protostellar phases, the first core is a quasi-equilibrium hydrostatic object with a short lifetime and an extremely low luminosity. Recent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations suggest that the first core can even drive a molecular outflow before the formation of the second core (i.e., protostar). Using the Submillimeter Array and the Spitzer Space Telescope, we present high angular resolution observations toward the embedded dense core IRS2E in L1448. We find that source L1448 IRS2E is not visible in the sensitive Spitzer infrared images (at wavelengths from 3.6 to 70 mu m) and has weak (sub-) millimeter dust continuum emission. Consequently, this source has an extremely low bolometric luminosity (<0.1 L(circle dot)). Infrared and (sub-) millimeter observations clearly show an outflow emanating from this source; L1448 IRS2E represents thus far the lowest luminosity source known to be driving a molecular outflow. Comparisons with prestellar cores and Class 0 protostars suggest that L1448 IRS2E is more evolved than prestellar cores but less evolved than Class 0 protostars, i.e., at a stage intermediate between prestellar cores and Class 0 protostars. All these results are consistent with the theoretical predictions of the radiative/MHD simulations, making L1448 IRS2E the most promising candidate of the first hydrostatic core revealed so far.
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