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2009ApJ...699.1584L - Astrophys. J., 699, 1584-1594 (2009/July-2)

Rotation and outflow motions in the very low-mass class 0 protostellar system HH 211 at subarcsecond resolution.

LEE C.-F., HIRANO N., PALAU A., HO P.T.P., BOURKE T.L., ZHANG Q. and SHANG H.

Abstract (from CDS):

HH 211 is a nearby young protostellar system with a highly collimated jet. We have mapped it in 352 GHz continuum, SiO (J = 8 - 7), and HCO+ (J = 4 - 3) emission at up to ∼0".2 resolution with the Submillimeter Array (SMA). The continuum source is now resolved into two sources, SMM1 and SMM2, with a separation of ∼ 84 AU. SMM1 is seen at the center of the jet, probably tracing a (inner) dusty disk around the protostar driving the jet. SMM2 is seen to the southwest of SMM1 and may trace an envelope-disk around a small binary companion. A flattened envelope-disk is seen in HCO+ around SMM1 with a radius of ∼ 80 AU perpendicular to the jet axis. Its velocity structure is consistent with a rotation motion and can be fitted with a Keplerian law that yields a mass of ∼50±15 MJup(a mass of a brown dwarf) for the protostar. Thus, the protostar could be the lowest mass source known to have a collimated jet and a rotating flattened envelope-disk. A small-scale (∼200 AU) low-speed (∼2 km/s) outflow is seen in HCO+ around the jet axis extending from the envelope-disk. It seems to rotate in the same direction as the envelope-disk and may carry away part of the angular momentum from the envelope-disk. The jet is seen in SiO close to ∼100 AU from SMM1. It is seen with a "C-shaped" bending. It has a transverse width of ≲ 40 AU and a velocity of ∼ 170±60 km/s. A possible velocity gradient is seen consistently across its innermost pair of knots, ∼0.5 km/s at ∼10 AU, consistent with the sense of rotation of the envelope-disk. If this gradient is an upper limit of the true rotational gradient of the jet, then the jet carries away a very small amount of angular momentum of ≲ 5 AU km/s and thus must be launched from the very inner edge of the disk near the corotation radius.

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Journal keyword(s): stars: formation - ISM: individual: HH 211 - ISM: jets and outflows

Nomenclature: Fig. 1, Paragr. 3.1: [LHP2009] SMM N (Nos 1-2). Fig. 5: [LHP2009] AKN (Nos BK1-6, RK1-7), RK6 missing.

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