Warm water in Herschel/PACS observations of NGC 1333 IRAS 4B: the outflow, not the disk!

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2011-05-31

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Herczeg, Greg
Yıldız, Umut

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During the embedded phase of pre-main sequence stellar evolution, a disk forms from the dense envelope while an accretion-driven outflow carves out a cavity within the envelope. Warm water emission in Spitzer IRS spectra of a prototypical Class 0 object, NGC 1333 IRAS 4B, has previously been linked to the envelope-disk accretion shock, with implications for how the disk forms from the envelope. However, the interpretation of unresolved emission from Class 0 objects is often complicated because both the disk/envelope and outflow/envelope interfaces can be heated by shocks and energetic photons from the central star. As part of the WISH Herschel Key Program, we obtained low-resolution Herschel/PACS far-IR spectra to assess the origin of warm H_2O emission from NGC 1333 IRAS 4B. The H_2O emission is spatially offset by ∼ 2.5%B rime%B rime(600 AU) in the direction of the blueshifted outflow from the location of the far-IR continuum emission. The spatial offset confirms that warm H_2O emission is predominantly produced in shocks and not the UV-heated cavity walls. The outflow origin is also consistent with the interpretation from high-resolution Herschel/HIFI spectra that spectrally-broad emission in lower-excitation H_2O lines is produced in shocks along the cavity walls. In contrast, high angular resolution millimeter interferometric observations of the H_218O isotopologue have indicated that the inner 50-100 AU may contribute to some of the warm H_2O emission seen with PACS. We also discuss the presence of warm H_2O emission detected from other YSOs.

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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011IAUS..280P.195H/abstract
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115964

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The Molecular Universe, Posters from the proceedings of the 280th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union

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G. Herczeg and U. Yıldız, “Warm water in Herschel/PACS observations of NGC 1333 IRAS 4B: the outflow, not the disk!,” presented at the The Molecular Universe, Posters from the proceedings of the 280th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Toledo, İspanya, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011IAUS..280P.195H/abstract.