Windows through the Dusty Disks Surrounding the Youngest Low Mass Protostellar Objects
arXiv:astro-ph/0004359 · doi:10.1126/science.288.5466.649
Abstract
The formation and evolution of young low mass stars are characterized by important processes of mass loss and accretion ocurring in the innermost regions of their placentary circumstellar disks. Because of the large obscuration of these disks at optical and infrared wavelengths in the early protostellar stages (Class 0 Sources), they were previously detected only at radio wavelengths using interferometric techniques. We have detected with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) the mid-infrared emission associated with the Class 0 protostar VLA1 in the HH1-2 region located in the Orion nebula. The emission arises in the three wavelength windows at 5.3, 6.6 and 7.5 micras where the absorption due to ices and silicates has a local minimum that exposes the central parts of the youngest protostellar systems to mid-infrared investigations. The mid-infrared emission arises from a central source with 4 AU diameter at an averaged temperature of 700 K, deeply embedded in a dense region with a visual extinction of Av=80-100mag.
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