OH Emission toward Embedded YSOs

  • Yun, Hyeong-Sik (School of space research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Jeong-Eun (School of space research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Je, Hyerin (School of space research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Seokho (School of space research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Evans, Neal J. II (Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin) ;
  • Wampfler, S.F. (Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich)
  • 발행 : 2013.10.08

초록

High energy photons and mechanical energy produced by the process of star formation result in copious FIR molecular and atomic lines, which are important coolants of the system. Photons thermally or mechanically induced could dissociate water in the dense envelope to change relative abundances among the species O, OH, and H2O. Here we analyze OH emission lines toward embedded young stellar objects (YSOs) observed as part of the Herschel open time key program, 'Dust, Ice, and Gas In Time (DIGIT)' in order to study the physical conditions of associated gas and the energy budget loaded on the OH line emission. According to our analysis of the Herschel/PACS spectra, OH emission peaks at the central spaxel in most of sources, but several sources show spatially extended emission structures. In the extended emission sources, the distribution of OH emission is correlated with that of [OI] emission and extended along the outflow directions. Considering the diversity of source properties, ratios between detected OH lines are relatively constant among sources. In addition, each OH line has strong correlation with bolometric luminosity. For detail analyses with rotation diagram and non-LTE LVG model, we present the results from GSS30-IRS1 and Elias29.

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