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Figure 1:
12CO and 13CO(1-0) spectra towards the positions
with strong 12CO line wing emission. The offset is (0
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12CO and 13CO(1-0) spectra are shown in
Fig. 1 (no line components have been subtracted; see below).
The emission is shown on the same velocity scale
for the eight sources towards the position with strong 12CO
line wing emission. For most sources this is at the IRAS PSC position
(offset (0
,
0
)). An exception is WB89 1173 (offset
(40
,
0
)).
The 12CO line profiles are much broader than those
of 13CO, and extend over a large range in velocity
(up to 25 km
s-1 for WB89 1187), which is typical of
outflow emission. In some of the 13CO spectra wing
emission is present as well.
For three sources (WB89 1135, 1181, and 1187) the spectra also
show a dip in the 12CO emission at the velocity of the 13CO peak,
possibly a sign of self absorption, although for the latter source we
conclude that the dip is caused by two partly overlapping velocity
components (see further).
A secondary maximum at +7 km
s-1 is visible in the spectrum towards
WB89 1189, and is also due to another component, which is much
stronger to the SE of the IRAS position.
In the maps of WB89 1099, 1135, 1173, 1187, 1189 and 1275, we detected one or more other emission components (especially in 12CO), the velocity of which is often near that of the main component, hence causing confusion in identifying the outflowing gas. These components are identified at positions away from the center of the flows (where the main component of the emission tends to be narrower). Based on Gaussian fits made to the spectra at those positions, confusing components could also be subtracted from spectra taken towards the center of the outflows, where they generally almost disappear in the broad 12CO profile. In some cases some weak residual emission may be left in the central, broad profiles, because the velocity of the confusing emission is too close to that of the main component, and an unambiguous Gaussian fit could not always be made.
The distribution of the velocity components that are unrelated to the
outflows (and that were subtracted) is shown in Fig. 2.
It is seen that these emission components do not have a maximum near the
IRAS PSC positions, and for some sources they are only detected at the
edge of the observed region. A few of those velocity components such as for
WB89 1099 (4 kms-1), 1187 (10 km
s-1), and 1189
(7 km
s-1) are rather extended.
To investigate whether cloud temperatures have a maximum near embedded
heating (IRAS) sources, we have plotted in Fig. 3 the
distribution of peak temperature for the sources mapped in 12CO(1-0),
after subtraction of unrelated (to the outflow) emission components.
Towards six of the sources the maximum is within about 20
of the IRAS
PSC position.
Towards the two remaining sources the displacement of the peak of the
temperature distribution appears to be significant (i.e. not
due to noise) compared to the beamsize, and amounts up to
about 59
for WB89 1173 and 52
for WB89 1275 (resp.
0.14 and 1.6 pc).
The distribution of large-scale CO emission associated with our sample of
sources can be seen in the low resolution maps of Murphy & May
([1991]),
except for WB89 1086, 1135,
and 1275, the velocities of which are outside the range discussed by these
authors.
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Figure 4: The distribution of the integrated blue (left) and red (right) 12CO(1-0) line wing emission towards eight sources. The lowest contour level and the contour interval are 1 K km s-1, except for WB89 1173, 1181, and 1187 where they are 2 K km s-1. Observed positions are indicated as crosses, the IRAS PSC position as filled circles. The arrows indicate for WB89 1173, 1181, and 1189 the direction of H2 jets detected by Massi et al. ([1997]) |
To study the outflowing gas, one integrates the "cleaned''
(i.e. after subtracting the unrelated components) line profiles over
some velocity interval, the outer limit
of which is taken for our
sample of sources as the velocity
where the emission first becomes less than 0 K, and the
inner limit
of which is
taken at some distance from the line center in velocity space. The precise
location
of the inner velocity limit is determined by the shape and width of the line
profile of the underlying quiescent gas.
For the inner limit we have taken the velocity of the peak of the line
profile, plus (for the red wing) or minus (blue wing) the
half widths at half maximum intensity of the line profile:
or
.
We took the smallest of both half widths,
,
), and
to correct
the wing emission for the contribution of the quiescent gas, we subtracted
at each channel between
and
the contribution of a
Gaussian with a width equal to 2
,
and a velocity
equal to
the velocity of the peak temperature of the line profile.
The resulting distribution of the red and blue
wing emission is shown in Fig. 4.
Except for WB89 1173 (blue wing), the outflow emission (i.e. 12CO) is
centered near (i.e. within one beam of) the IRAS (0, 0) position, and
moderately extended compared to the 46
115 GHz beam.
For some sources the wing emission is very small (and possibly nonexistent),
such as the blue and red
wing of WB89 1086, and the blue wings of WB89 1099 and WB89 1189 (although
for the latter source there is clearly some weak wing emission present in
Fig. 1). For the other sources with
substantial wing emission one can distinguish sources where the distribution
of blue and red wing emission is similar, such as WB89 1173, and sources
where the emission is bipolar (e.g. WB89 1187, where the blue (red) wing has
a maximum east (west) of the IRAS PSC position). Also for WB89 1135 there
appears such a difference in the location of the wing emission. Towards
WB89 1181 the red wing is well defined with a peak east of the PSC position,
but the situation for the blue wing is less clear.
We have derived parameters of the outflows, following Snell et al.
([1984]), and assuming
K,
,
and LTE
(see Wouterloot et al. [1989];
Shepherd & Churchwell [1996]). The results
are listed in
Table 3. Column 1 gives the source name. Column 3 the largest
velocity range of the wing emission, reached at the position listed in
Col. 4. We derived the velocity range from the velocity at which the emission
first reaches the 0 K level, and distinguish between the blue and red wings
and the total spectrum. The blue and red wings can show their largest range
at different positions and therefore the position with the largest total
velocity range can also differ from that of the largest blue or red range.
In Col. 5 is the median value of the line width of
the subtracted line component of the quiescent gas. The standard deviation of
this line width distribution at all positions in the maps
is 0.5 to 1 km
s-1, and in some sources
this width increases
slightly with peak
,
probably due to contributions of the outflow which
cannot be separated from the quiescent gas. Column 6 lists the offsets with
strongest blue and red wing emission (largest
dv).
In general the maximum outflow velocities (Col. 3 of Table 3) do
not occur at positions where the total wing area (Col. 6) is largest.
Probably this is due to the fact that only small part of the outflow is at
the highest velocities, and due to projection effects.
In Cols. 7 to 12 are the
derived outflow mass, momentum and energy (for blue and red wing and the total
emission), the diameter (corrected for beamsize), average outflow velocity and
the dynamical timescale of the outflow. The ratio of energy and timescale
is the mechanical luminosity in Col. 13.
Source | Wing |
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WB89 | km s-1 |
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(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) |
1086 | blue | 5.1 | (40, 40) | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
red | 5.3 | (-40, 0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
total | 9.4 | (-40, 0) | 1.80 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1099 | blue | 10.4 | (0, 0),(40, 20) | (-22, 16) | 0.48 | 0.71 | 0.15 | 0.37 | 1.57 | 1.15 | ||
red | 7.3 | (0, 0) | (46, 22) | 0.59 | 1.26 | 0.45 | 0.22 | 2.46 | 0.44 | |||
total | 17.7 | (0, 0) | 1.13 | (-3, 3) | 1.07 | 1.97 | 0.60 | 0.65 | 0.0076 | |||
1135 | blue | 10.9 | (0, 0) | (6, -10) | 74 | 226 | 93 | 2.44 | 3.51 | 3.42 | ||
red | 11.6 | (20, -20) | (6, 20) | 78 | 193 | 68 | 2.65 | 3.10 | 4.22 | |||
total | 21.5 | (40, 0) | 2.71 | (6, 2) | 151 | 419 | 161 | 3.79 | 0.36 | |||
1173 | blue | 10.8 | (60, 0) | (58, -46) | 13 | 30 | 9.5 | 0.76 | 2.53 | 1.47 | ||
red | 10.5 | (60, -20) | (38, -16) | 15 | 28 | 8.2 | 0.75 | 2.18 | 1.70 | |||
total | 19.3 | (60, -20) | 2.03 | (45, -15) | 28 | 58 | 18 | 1.58 | 0.094 | |||
1181 | blue | 13.4 | (0, 0) | (19, -19) | 6.8 | 23 | 9.5 | 0.59 | 3.85 | 0.76 | ||
red | 12.5 | (0, 0) | (19, -19) | 7.7 | 26 | 11 | 0.55 | 3.96 | 0.68 | |||
total | 25.9 | (0, 0) | 3.16 | (18, -18) | 14 | 49 | 20 | 0.72 | 0.44 | |||
1187 | blue | 13.1 | (0, 0) | (44, 19) | 29 | 82 | 38 | 1.23 | 3.26 | 1.87 | ||
red | 15.6 | (40, 40) | (-16, 0) | 26 | 89 | 39 | 1.16 | 4.14 | 1.88 | |||
total | 25.3 | (0, 0) | 2.82 | (20, 0) | 55 | 171 | 77 | 1.60 | 0.40 | |||
1189 | blue | 8.3 | (20, 20) | (0, 0) | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.47 | 0.32 | 2.19 | 0.72 | ||
red | 7.5 | (-40, 20) | (19, 25) | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.36 | 0.31 | 1.69 | 0.90 | |||
total | 15.4 | (20, 20) | 1.80 | (18, 25) | 2.3 | 3.7 | 0.83 | 0.80 | 0.0086 | |||
1275 | blue | 12.3 | (40, 40) | (-6, -18) | 66 | 255 | 119 | 2.13 | 3.77 | 2.78 | 0.36 | |
red | 10.5 | (20, 40) | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
total | 21.5 | (40, 40) | 3.61 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
From the maps and the spectra we concluded that there is no outflow emission
towards WB89 1086. This is a source showing only one
line component which is slightly broader at several positions and showing
only a small range in velocity with emission (see Col. 3 of
Table 3). Towards
WB89 1275 we derive only parameters for the blue wings because of confusion
due to emission at higher velocities (39-46 kms-1 - see
Fig. 2) which may not have been correctly subtracted.
The outflow masses range from 1
for WB89 1099 to 150
for
WB89 1135, the sources with the lowest and highest FIR luminosity in the sample
which were mapped in CO (apart from WB89 1275, for which
is higher,
but for which we could only study the blue wing emission). Also the outflow
momentum and energy show extreme values towards these sources. The outflow
mass in WB89 1135 is among the highest ones found anywhere (about
200
;
see
e.g. Bachiller [1996]). From the masses and diameters of the outflows
we obtain H2 densities ranging from 120 cm-3 (red wing of WB89 1135) to
1590 cm-3 (red wing of WB89 1099). The median value is 850 cm-3,
which is typical for such sources (Lada [1985]). The dynamical
timescale in Col. 12 ranges from about 0.5 105 years to 4 105 years,
which is at the upper range of values found in such sources (see e.g. Fig. 12
in Shepherd & Churchwell [1996]).
A discussion of the accuracy of outflow parameters and a comparison of
different methods to derive these parameters is given by Cabrit & Bertout
([1990]). The outflow velocity in Col. 11 of Table 3 is a
average value, weighted with
at all positions.
The maximum outflow velocity in Col. 3 is larger by a factor 3.8
(median; range from 3.0 [red wing in WB89 1099] to 6.6 [blue wing in
WB89 1099]).
Using this velocity would result in a dynamical timescale smaller- and a
mechanical luminosity larger by this factor.
Towards all sources which we observed in those molecules, we detected
C18O(1-0) and CS(2-1) emission. Spectra at peak positions are shown in
Fig. 5. For some sources the peak positions are displaced from the
positions with strongest outflow emission or from the IRAS PSC position.
In most cases C18O is weaker than CS. The exception
is WB89 1086 where both lines have approximately equal intensity and both are
faint. We note that the CS and/or C18O
linewidths for four of the sources (WB89 1086, 1099, 1173, and 1189) are
smaller (1.3 kms-1) than for the others (2.6 km
s-1).
The same is seen in the values of
of the quiescent 12CO gas (Col. 5 of Table 3).
This might be related to the smaller FIR luminosity of the IRAS sources
(
vs.
), although these luminosity
ranges show some overlap.
The results from the Gaussian fits are summarized in Table 4,
where we list the values for CS and C18O for the average cloud spectrum
and towards the peak position. Six of the sources in Table 1 were
observed in CS(2-1) by Bronfman et al. ([1996]) at the IRAS PSC
position. Those not observed
are WB89 1086, WB89 1173, and WB89 1187. We did not observe CS (nor C18O)
towards WB89 1275. Regarding the latter source, the weak line
(
K) detected by Bronfman et al. (compared to the peak
CS temperatures in Table 4) might be caused by a clump
of which the center is displaced from the PSC position, as is suggested by
Fig. 3.
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Figure 6:
The distribution of
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Figure 7:
The distribution of peak
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The CS(2-1) and C18O(1-0) spectra do not show other velocity
components. However, outflow emission is visible in some of the CS(2-1)
spectra, e.g. WB89 1099 (see also Nielsen et al. [1998]), 1135 and
1181. Also
towards WB89 1262, not observed in CO, CS shows line wings. However the
signal-to-noise ratio is not good enough at all positions to distinguish
between the distributions of outflow and quiescent gas in those four objects.
We made Gaussian fits to the CS(2-1) and C18O(1-0) spectra, and the
resulting
dv distributions
are shown Fig. 6. Those of the peak
are essentially
identical in most cases. Sources where the distribution of peak
is
different are shown in Fig. 7.
In most sources the two
molecules show a maximum at or close to the PSC position. An exception is the
CS emission from WB89 1086, which is rather weak towards (0, 0) and shows
somewhat stronger emission northeast of the PSC position.
WB89 1173 shows a maximum of
dv of CS at (0, 0), but the maximum of the distribution of
is displaced to the offset (37
,
-35
). In
C18O this source shows a number of peaks displaced from the PSC position.
The maximum in WB89 1181 is slightly to the west of the PSC position, the CS
emission peaks
closer to (0, 0) than the C18O, which is at (-41
,
0
)
(peak
)
or (-60
,
-24
)
(
dv).
The CS distribution near WB89 1187 shows a chain of three clumps, the
most eastern one of which coincides with the IRAS PSC position; The strongest
is towards the eastern one at (65
,
-6
). Offsets
mentioned
above can differ from those in Table 4 because they were derived
from the contour maps rather than from the individual spectra.
Towards four of the sources, Massi et al. ([1997]) searched for and
detected NIR H2emission: WB89 1173, 1181, 1187, and 1189. We have indicated for three of
those sources (using updated information
from Massi [1999]) their direction as
1
arrows in Figs. 4, 6, and
7. The origin (for WB89 1173) or the centers of the arrows
coincide with the embedded (NIR) objects proposed by Massi et al.
([1997])
to be the jets' origin. It seems that in all cases
the direction is approximately parallel to the short axis of the CS or C18O
clumps. In none of the three cases the direction is that of one of the
outflows found in CO (see Fig. 4). These H2 features are
extremely small (some arcseconds) for WB89 1173 and 1189,
and for the latter source this emission is outside the CS and C18O
clumps (see Fig. 6). On the other hand, in WB89 1181
nine individual H2 features can be distinguished, up to 30
northwest
and southeast from an embedded star, which is close to the IRAS PSC position
and lies inside the dense clumps. The H2 emission towards WB89 1187 is very
weak.
We can compare the locations of CS and C18O clumps in Fig. 6 with the distribution of 12CO(1-0) line wings in Fig. 4. Although in both figures the structures seen are not much larger than the angular resolution of the observations, there are a few sources where the cloud cores are clearly separated from the outflows (projected on the sky). Examples are the red wing of WB89 1099, both wings of WB89 1181, and the red wing of WB89 1187, where the outflow gas thus moves away from the dense cores. The situation is less clear towards the other sources, possibly due to projection effects.
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Figure 8:
Position (
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From our data we derived the clump parameters listed in Table 5.
The radii in Cols. 2 (CS) and 4 (C18O) were obtained from the
area in the grid where these molecules were detected:
.
This radius was corrected for the beam size. There was
not always enough time to observe a large enough area of sky, hence for some
clumps
the values are lower limits. This applies mostly to CS in WB89 1173 and to
C18O in WB89 1187 (but it is possible that near the other sources there
are also more clumps which we did not trace). We applied another method to
derive the clump radii in Cols. 3 and 5. Here we used their area at the
half-intensity level. These values are smaller of course than those in
Cols. 2 and 4. Because clouds are
not spherical in most cases, all numbers should be considered as
equivalent cloud radii. The virial mass in Cols. 6 and 7 was derived assuming
a density distribution proportional to r-2
(
;
see e.g. MacLaren et al. [1988]), and here we used the radii in
Cols. 2 and 4. The values derived from C18O can be
compared with the LTE masses in Col. 8, which were
derived assuming C18O is optically thin (using
N(H
(C18O)/0.7 dv;
Wilson et al. [1986]).
We used a ratio 12CO/C18O of 560 (Wilson & Rood [1994]),
an excitation temperature
of 20 K, a 12CO/H2 abundance of
10-4,
and multiplied by a factor 1.36 to take He into account (0.7 is the SEST
main beam efficiency). For most clouds
the
is the larger mass. The differences are not larger than
typically found for such objects, however. If one uses the
conversion factor from N(C18O) to N(H2) found by Frerking et al.
([1982]), instead of the above mentioned abundance ratios,
the masses would become about a factor 2 larger. From the masses in Col. 8
and the cloud radii in Col. 4 we obtain the average density in Col. 9.
If we had used the radii in Col. 5 instead, the density range would have been
5300 to 60400 cm-3 instead of 820 to 16900 cm-3.
We find velocity gradients in CS and C18O towards five of the mapped
clouds. Position-velocity plots from Gaussian fits along the direction showing
the gradient
are shown in Fig. 8. Least squares fits to these data gave
the velocity gradient in Col. 10 of Table 5. It appears that
the gradient in the CS cloud near WB89 1187 is due to three clumps with a
constant velocity each.
For comparison with the assumed C18O excitation temperature (20 K) we list
in Col. 11 the excitation temperature derived from the maximum 12CO(1-0)
in the cloud at the offset position in Col. 12. The value in the
cloud center for C18O will be higher or lower, depending on whether
there are heating sources or not. NH3 observations of similar clouds showed
that the kinetic temperature also depends on the luminosity of the embedded
source (see e.g. Wouterloot et al. [1988]).
Source | CS | C18O | |||||||
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(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) |
1086 | aver. | 0.12 (0.02) | 63.84 (0.08) | 1.12 (0.16) | 0.16 (0.02) | 63.63 (0.07) | 1.63 (0.17) | ||
peak | 0.57 (0.08) | (-40, -80) | 63.89 (0.07) | 0.60 (0.13) | 0.44 (0.02) | (0, 0) | 63.88 (0.03) | 1.03 (0.06) | |
1099 | aver. | 0.52 (0.03) | 5.85 (0.02) | 1.12 (0.06) | 0.45 (0.03) | 5.81 (0.02) | 0.94 (0.05) | ||
peak | 2.33 (0.18) | (0, 0) | 6.06 (0.01) | 1.34 (0.03) | 1.05 (0.05) | (0, 0) | 6.04 (0.01) | 0.93 (0.03) | |
1135 | aver. | 0.36 (0.03) | 54.66 (0.05) | 2.07 (0.12) | 0.26 (0.03) | 54.53 (0.05) | 1.77 (0.14) | ||
peak | 1.05 (0.07) | (0, 0) | 54.83 (0.03) | 2.88 (0.09) | 0.45 (0.06) | (0, 0) | 55.13 (0.05) | 3.34 (0.13) | |
1173 | aver. | 0.59 (0.02) | 7.37 (0.02) | 1.24 (0.05) | 0.57 (0.04) | 7.36 (0.01) | 1.31 (0.03) | ||
peak | 1.53 (0.16) | (40, -40) | 7.20 (0.04) | 1.17 (0.09) | 1.45 (0.13) | (-40, 0) | 7.25 (0.02) | 0.99 (0.08) | |
1181 | aver. | 1.15 (0.05) | 4.01 (0.02) | 3.47 (0.04) | 0.36 (0.02) | 4.20 (0.02) | 2.95 (0.05) | ||
peak | 4.15 (0.20) | (0, 0) | 4.08 (0.01) | 4.03 (0.03) | 1.00 (0.11) | (-40, 0) | 3.45 (0.05) | 3.08 (0.12) | |
1187 | aver. | 0.53 (0.03) | 12.19 (0.02) | 2.79 (0.04) | 0.31 (0.03) | 12.06 (0.04) | 2.55 (0.10) | ||
peak | 1.25 (0.20) | (40, 0) | 12.97 (0.08) | 2.20 (0.13) | 0.72 (0.12) | (40, 0) | 12.58 (0.07) | 1.83 (0.18) | |
1189 | aver. | 0.36 (0.03) | 2.47 (0.03) | 1.37 (0.08) | 0.41 (0.02) | 2.44 (0.02) | 1.26 (0.05) | ||
peak | 1.61 (0.20) | (40, 0) | 2.31 (0.04) | 1.56 (0.09) | 1.06 (0.11) | (40, 0) | 2.35 (0.03) | 1.02 (0.07) | |
1262 | aver. | 0.77 (0.04) | 9.50 (0.02) | 2.57 (0.05) | not observed | ||||
peak | 3.75 (0.26) | (0, 0) | 9.38 (0.03) | 3.15 (0.08) | |||||
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CS | C18O | CS | C18O | C18O | 12CO | ||||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) |
1086 | 1.4 | <0.91 | 1.2 | 0.70 | 260 | 480 | 500 | 1000 | 23.0 | (-24, -6) | |
1099 | 0.29 | 0.10 | 0.24 | 0.16 | 47 | 29 | 25 | 6500 | +1.51 (0.23) | 15.5 | (-15, 16) |
1135 | 1.5 | 0.69 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 920 | 830 | 2120 | 820 | -0.40 (0.08) | 16.1 | (-2, -11) |
1173 | >0.76 | >0.392 | 1.1 | 0.72 | >150 | 240 | 6300 | 16900 | 41.1 | (-42, 46) | |
1181 | 0.50 | 0.17 | 0.56 | 0.30 | 770 | 625 | 260 | 5300 | -2.01 (0.39) | 29.3 | (6, 19) |
1187 | 1.8 | 1.1 | >0.81 | >0.68 | 1770 | >700 | >470 | 3200 | +0.42 (0.04) | 23.2 | (17, 3) |
1189 | 0.19 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 0.11 | 47 | 36 | 17 | 12400 | +1.91 (0.20) | 29.0 | (13, 19) |
1262 | 1.6 | 0.47 | 1350 | ||||||||
1275 | 28.4 | (47, 24) | |||||||||
1 Two unresolved clumps. | |||||||||||
2 The main clump; there are also two unresolved (<0.18 pc) clumps. | |||||||||||
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