CCS and NH3 emission associated with low-mass young stellar objects

Abstract

In this work we present a sensitive and systematic single-dish survey of CCS emission (complemented with ammonia observations) at 1 cm, toward a sample of low- and intermediate-mass young star forming regions known to harbor water maser emission, made with NASA's 70 m antenna at Robledo de Chavela, Spain. Out of the 40 star forming regions surveyed in the CCS(2_{1}-1_{0}) line, only 6 low-mass sources show CCS emission: one transitional object between pre-stellar and protostellar Class 0 phase (GF9-2), three Class 0 protostars (L1448-IRS3, L1448C, and B1-IRS), a Class I source (L1251A), and a young T Tauri star (NGC2071-North). Since CCS is considered an ``early-time'' (<10E+5 yr) molecule, we explain these results by either proposing a revision of the classification of the age of NGC2071-North and L1251A, or suggesting the possibility that the particular physical conditions and processes of each source affect the destruction/production of the CCS. No statistically significant relationship was found between the presence of CCS and parameters of the molecular outflows and their driving sources. Nevertheless, we found a significant relationship between the detectability of CCS and the ammonia peak intensity (higher in regions with CCS), but not with its integrated intensity. This tendency found may suggest that the narrower ammonia line widths in the less turbulent medium associated with younger cores may compensate for the differences in ammonia peak intensity, rendering differences in integrated intensity negligible. From the CCS detection rate we derive a lifetime of this molecule of ~(0.7-3) x 10E+4 yr in low-mass star forming regions.

28 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables, to appear in the 2006 May 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal

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