2020/04/29 by Riouhei Nakatani, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Satoshi Ohashi +5 · 36 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Interstellar medium #Jansky #Mass distribution #Protostar #Spiral galaxy #Substructure #astro-ph.EP #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.SR
paper · pdf · doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab8eaa
published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters 895(1), L2 (IOP Publishing)
arxiv created 2020/04/29 · openalex publication_date 2020/05/01 · openalex created_date 2020/05/13 · arxiv updated 2020/05/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract We analyze multifrequency, high-resolution continuum data obtained by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and the Jansky Very Lary Array to study the detailed structure of the dust distribution in the infant disk of a Class 0/I source, L1527 IRS. We find three clumps aligning in the north–south direction in the 7 mm radio continuum image. The three clumps remain even after subtracting free–free contamination, which is estimated from the 1.3 cm continuum observations. The northern and southern clumps are located at a distance of ∼15 au from the central clump and are likely optically thick at 7 mm wavelength. The clumps have similar integrated intensities. The symmetric physical properties could be realized when a dust ring, or spiral arms, around the central protostar is projected to the plane of the sky. We demonstrate for the first time that such substructure may form even in the disk-forming stage, where the surrounding materials actively accrete toward a disk-protostar system.