Protostellar and Protoplanetary Disk Masses in the Serpens Region
Abstract
We present the results from an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 1.3 mm continuum and 12CO (J = 2 - 1) line survey spread over 10 deg2 in the Serpens star-forming region of 320 young stellar objects, 302 of which are likely members of Serpens (16 Class I, 35 flat-spectrum, 235 Class II, and 16 Class III). From the continuum data, we derive disk dust masses and show that they systematically decline from Class I to flat-spectrum to Class II sources. Grouped by stellar evolutionary state, the disk mass distributions are similar to other young (<3 Myr) regions, indicating that the large-scale environment of a star-forming region does not strongly affect its overall disk dust mass properties. These comparisons between populations reinforce previous conclusions that disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region have anomalously low masses at all evolutionary stages. Additionally, we find a single deeply embedded protostar that has not been documented elsewhere in the literature and, from the CO line data, 15 protostellar outflows, which we catalog here.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- October 2022
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-4357/ac8ff0
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2204.08731
- Bibcode:
- 2022ApJ...938...55A
- Keywords:
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- Protoplanetary disks;
- Pre-main sequence stars;
- Submillimeter astronomy;
- 1300;
- 1290;
- 1647;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, accepted to ApJ