2021MNRAS.504..338P -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 504, 338-355 (2021/June-2)
A Galactic survey of radio jets from massive protostars.
PURSER S.J.D., LUMSDEN S.L., HOARE M.G. and KURTZ S.
Abstract (from CDS):
In conjunction with a previous southern-hemisphere work, we present the largest radio survey of jets from massive protostars to date with high-resolution (∼0.04 arcsec) Jansky Very Large Array observations towards two subsamples of massive star-forming regions of different evolutionary statuses: 48 infrared-bright, massive, young, stellar objects (MYSOs) and 8 infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) containing 16 luminous (L_ bol_> 10^3L_☉_) cores. For 94 per cent of the MYSO sample, we detect thermal radio (α >= -0.1 whereby Sν ∝ να) sources coincident with the protostar, of which 84 per cent (13 jets and 25 candidates) are jet like. Radio luminosity is found to scale with L_ bol_ similarly to the low-mass case supporting a common mechanism for jet production across all masses. Associated radio lobes tracing shocks are seen towards 52 per cent of jet-like objects and are preferentially detected towards jets of higher radio and bolometric luminosities, resulting from our sensitivity limitations. We find jet mass-loss rate scales with bolometric luminosity as {dot}m_ jet_∝L_ bol_^0.9±0.2^, thereby discarding radiative, line-driving mechanisms as the dominant jet-launching process. Calculated momenta show that the majority of jets are mechanically capable of driving the massive, molecular outflow phenomena since pjet > poutflow. Finally, from their physical extent we show that the radio emission cannot originate from small, optically thick H II regions. Towards the IRDC cores, we observe increasing incidence rates/radio fluxes with age using the proxy of increasing luminosity-to-mass (L/M) and decreasing infrared flux ratios (S_70 µm/S24 µm_). Cores with (L/M)< 40 L_☉_M_☉_–1 are not detected above (5.8 GHz) radio luminosities of ∼1 mJy kpc^2.
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© 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
surveys - stars: formation - stars: massive - stars: protostars - ISM: jets and outflows - radio continuum: ISM
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