Envelope Emission in Young Stellar Systems: A Sub-Arcsecond Survey of Circumstellar Structure

Abstract

We present modeling results for six of the eleven deeply embedded systems from our sub-arcsecond 2.7 mm wavelength continuum interferometric survey. The modeling, performed in the uv plane, assumes dust properties, allows for a power-law density profile, uses a self-consistent, luminosity conserving temperature profile, and has an embedded point source to represent a circumstellar disk. Even though we have the highest spatial resolution to date at these wavelengths, only the highest signal-to-noise systems can adequately constrain the simple self-similar collapse models. Of the six sources modeled, all six were fit with a density power-law index of 2.0; however, in half of the systems, those with the highest signal-to-noise, a density power-law index of 1.5 can be rejected at the 95% confidence level. Further, we modeled the systems using the pure Larson-Penston (LP) and Shu solutions with only age and sound speed as parameters. Overall, the LP solution provides a better fit to the data, both in likelihood and providing the observed luminosity, but the age of the systems required by the fits are surprising low (1000-2000 yrs). We suggest that either there is some overall time scaling of the self-similar solutions that invalidate the age estimates, or more likely we are at the limit of the usefulness of these models. With our observations we have begun to reach the stage where models need to incorporate more of the fundamental physics of the collapse process, probably including magnetic fields and/or turbulence. In addition to constraining collapse solutions, our modeling allows the separation of large-scale emission from compact emission, enabling the probing of the circumstellar disk component embedded within the protostellar envelope.

28 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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