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Search for Disks around Young High-Mass Stars. Riccardo Cesaroni INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. Are disks predicted ? Theories of HM SF Are disks observed ? Search methods Observational evidence disks VS toroids Open questions and the future : ALMA , etc.
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Search for Disks around YoungHigh-Mass Stars Riccardo Cesaroni INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri • Are disks predicted? Theories of HM SF • Are disks observed? Search methods • Observational evidence disks VS toroids • Open questions and the future: ALMA, etc.
Existence of disks: Theory Disks are natural outcome of infall + angular momentum conservation, however: • B field magnetic braking, pseudo disks? • Ionization by OB stars photoevaporation? • Tidal interaction with cluster truncation? • Merging of low-mass stars destruction? Disks in OB protostars might not exist!
Good news: all theories predict circumstellar disks! Different models of high-mass star formation (core accretion, competitive accretion, …), but all predict circumstellar disksof ~100-1000 AU See e.g. Bonnell 2005, Krumholz et al. 2007, Keto 2007, Kuiper et al. 2010 stars up to 137 MO through disk accretion
1 pc clump collapse competitive accretion Bonnell (2005)
Zoom in time core accretion in 0.2 pc clump Krumholz et al. (2007) disk
density & velocity of gas around O9 star (Keto 2007) ionized gas molecular gas 50 AU
Bad news:all theories predict circumstellar disks! Disks existence not sufficient to choose SF theory Disks may keep memory of formation process disks properties needed to discriminate between SF models • < 100 AU resolution necessary, i.e. < 0.1” • ALMA, EVLA, eMERLIN, VLBI, VLTI, …
The search for disks Many searches in the last decade needtargets & tools Selection criteria for targets: • Bolometric (IRAS) luminosity > several 103 LO high-mass (proto)star • Association with outflow likely disk? • Presence of massive (> 10 MO), compact (< 0.1 pc) molecular core deeply embedded (young) high-mass object • In some cases maser and/or UCHII OB stars
Tools adopted: • Thermal lines of rare (low-abundance) molecules trace high-density, high-temperature gas in disk • H2O, CH3OH, OH, SiO maser lines mas resolution • (sub)mm continuum disk mass • IR continuum/lines disk emission and absorption • cm continuum and RRL ionised accretion flow Diagnostic: • Flattened (sub)mm core perpendicular to jet/outflow • Velocity gradient perpendicular to associated outflow • Peculiar (Keplerian) pattern in position-velocity plot • Dark silouhette in near-IR against bright background • Elongated emission in the mid-IR perpendicular to bipolar reflection nebula
CepA HW2 disk Jimenez-Serra et al. (2007,2009) PV plot along disk 1000 AU SO2 Keplerian rotation about 18 MO star 600 AU B field (23 mG) CH3OH masers Vlemmings et al. (2010) thermal jet
NGC7538 IRS1 N Pestalozzi et al. (2004, 2009) model of Keplerian disk around 31 MO star PV plot along disk CH3OH maser rel. Dec. [mas] disk plane
Nuerberger et al. (2007) M17 Chini et al. (2004) disk H2 jet 2.2 µm continuum 2 µm lines
J23056+6016 Quanz et al. (2010) 12CO blue outflow lobe 4.5µm emission disk H K’ bipolar nebula red & blue C18O disk
Major problems: • Velocity gradient may be expansion instead of rotation • Outflowmultiplicity and/or precession • Masers sample only few lines of sight • (sub)mm & IR continuum: no kinematical info • IR lines: so far limited spectral resolution Possible solutions: • High angular & spectral resolution accurate PV plots Keplerian rotation (close enough to star) • Maser proper motions 3D velocity Combine as many tools as possible!
Keplerian rotation+infall: M*=10 MO Image: 2µm cont. --- OH maser H2O masers Moscadelli et al. (2010) disk+jet disk 1000 AU jet 200 AU CH3OH H2O IRAS 20126+4104 Cesaroni et al. Hofner et al. Sridharan et al. Moscadelli et al.
Distance measurement to IRAS 20126+4104 with H2O maser parallax (Moscadelli et al. 2010) d = 1.64±0.05 kpc
Observational results • Evidence for rotation/flattening in ~42 molecular cores: ~26 disks Keplerian rotation in ~10 of these ~16 rotating toroids velocity gradient perpendicular to outflow/jet, but not Keplerian
PV plots of candidate Keplerian disks in high-mass stars W33A M17 13CO CO v=2-0 NGC7538S IRAS23151 CH3OH CepAHW2 IRAS18566 DCN C17O NGC7538 AFGL5142 CH3OH IRAS20126 AFGL490 NH3(1,1) -0.5” 1” 0.5” 0
Steinecker+ 2006 model 2.2µm VLT IR detected disks M17UC1 Nielbock+ 2007 disk M17 J23056 IRAS20126 disk Sridharan+ 2005 2.2µm VLT model disk HD200775 Kraus+ 2010 AFGL2591 19µm Subaru disk Quanz+ 2010 2.2µm UKIRT 2.2µm Subaru disk Kraus+ 2010 model 2.2µm VLTI Okamoto+ 2009 2.1µm speckle IRAS13481
Velocity fields of rotating toroids G24 A1 G24 A2 G305 G327 C G31.41 CH3CN G351 G10.62 G19.61 CH3CN G28.20 NH3 NH3 CH3CN
Toroids M > 100 MO R ~ 10000 AU L > 105 LO O (proto)stars small tacc/trot non-equilibrium, circum-cluster structures Disks M < a few 10 MO R ~ 1000 AU L ~ 104 LO B (proto)stars large tacc/trot equilibrium, circumstellar structures disks toroids Beltran et al. (2010)
Open questions • When do disks appear? 1 disk/toroid in IR-dark cloud • Role of magnetic field? 2 toroids with B parallel to rotation axis B may play crucial role • Why no (Keplerian) disks seen in O stars? • Ionized by OB stars? Unlikely: too slow and rotation in ionized gas detected in G10.62 (Keto & Wood 2005) • Truncated by tidal interactions in cluster? Maybe, but numerical simulations needed • Too far? ALMA and EVLA should tell us! • Too deeply embedded in toroids? Optically thin (low abundance i.e. high density) tracers needed, but line forest may fool even ALMA! VLBI of masers may help
disk model CH3OH 5000 AU IRDC18223-3 Fallscheer et al. (2009) disk-model velocity field small-scale velocity field large-scale bipolar outflow 0.2 pc
Open questions • When do disks appear? 1 disk/toroid in IR-dark cloud • Role of magnetic field? 2 toroids with B parallel to rotation axis B may play crucial role • Why no (Keplerian) disks seen in O stars? • Ionized by OB stars? Unlikely: too slow and rotation in ionized gas detected in G10.62 (Keto & Wood 2005) • Truncated by tidal interactions in cluster? Maybe, but numerical simulations needed • Too far? ALMA and EVLA should tell us! • Too deeply embedded in toroids? Optically thin (low abundance i.e. high density) tracers needed, but line forest may fool even ALMA! VLBI of masers may help
Keto & Klaassen (2008) Cesaroni et al. in prep. G31.41+0.31 W51e2 Tang et al. (2009) Girart et al. (2009)
Open questions • When do disks appear? 1 disk/toroid in IR-dark cloud • Role of magnetic field? 2 toroids with B parallel to rotation axis B may play crucial role • Why no (Keplerian) disks seen in O stars? • Ionized by OB stars? Unlikely: too slow and rotation in ionized gas detected in G10.62 (Keto & Wood 2005) • Truncated by tidal interactions in cluster? Maybe, but numerical simulations needed • Too far? ALMA and EVLA should tell us! • Too deeply embedded in toroids? Optically thin (low abundance i.e. high density) tracers needed, but line forest may fool even ALMA! VLBI of masers may help
photo-evaporation tidal destruction rotational period Cesaroni et al. (2007)
Open questions • When do disks appear? 1 disk/toroid in IR-dark cloud • Role of magnetic field? 2 toroids with B parallel to rotation axis B may play crucial role • Why no (Keplerian) disks seen in O stars? • Ionized by OB stars? Unlikely: too slow and rotation in ionized gas detected in G10.62 (Keto & Wood 2005) • Truncated by tidal interactions in cluster? Maybe, but numerical simulations needed • Too far? ALMA and EVLA should tell us! • Too deeply embedded in toroids? Optically thin (low abundance i.e. high density) tracers needed, but line forest may fool even ALMA! VLBI of masers may help
circumstellar disks Assumptions: HPBW = Rdisk/4 FWHMline = Vrot(Rdisk) Mdisk Mstar same <Ncol> in all disks TB > 20 K obs. freq. = 230 GHz 5 hours ON-source spec. res. = 0.2 km/s S/N = 20 edge-on i = 35° Keplerian
Assumptions: HPBW = Rdisk/4 FWHMline = Vrot(Rdisk) Mdisk Mstar same <Ncol> in all disks TB > 20 K obs. freq. = 230 GHz 5 hours ON-source spec. res. = 0.2 km/s S/N = 20 edge-on i = 35° no stars
Simulations of disks around 8 MO star Krumholz et al. (2007) NH3 with EVLA CH3CN(12-11) with ALMA cont. + line cont. subtr.
Open questions • When do disks appear? 1 disk/toroid in IR-dark cloud • Role of magnetic field? 2 toroids with B parallel to rotation axis B may play crucial role • Why no (Keplerian) disks seen in O stars? • Ionized by OB stars? Unlikely: too slow and rotation in ionized gas detected in G10.62 (Keto & Wood 2005) • Truncated by tidal interactions in cluster? Maybe, but numerical simulations needed • Too far? ALMA and EVLA should tell us! • Too deeply embedded in toroids? Optically thin (low abundance i.e. high density) tracers needed, but line forest may fool even ALMA! VLBI of masers may help
CH3CN deeply embedded disk? rotating toroid CH3OH masers 1.3cm cont. Furuya et al. (2008) Sanna et al. (2010)