What molecules correlate (in our sample of 16)?
Resolution is a weak predictor of salt detection
What excites salt emission?
Compare VY CMa to Orion: better rotational-vibrational agreement in the old star
When does salt enter the gas phase?
Depends on the binding energy of NaCl to grain surfaces.
Decin+
2016 suggest thermal desorption will remove all salt from grain
surfaces for $T_D > 100-300$ K, depending on assumed binding energy
(this range is consistent with VY CMa observations)
If $T_D>300$ K is all that is required, why do we not see salts in hot cores?
When does salt enter the gas phase?
If $T_D>300$ K is all that is required, why do we not see salts in hot cores?
When does salt enter the gas phase?
At atmospheric pressure: T~500-600K (Woitke+ 2018)
(no mention of SiS in these models)
Does salt have friends?
NaCl, KCl, SiS, and H
2 O coincide.
(AlO is also present in Orion)
What others might exist in these regions?
FeS? FeO? LiCl? HCl?
Summary
Salt is seen in disks around HMYSOs
It is correlated with water and SiS.
It is not seen in the outflow.
It is uncorrelated with COMs and ionized gas.
Its excitation is weird.
Questions:
Where does the salt come from?
What excites it?
Why isn't it ubiquitous?
Where else do we (should we) see it?
What other species might be coincident?
Observing the Keplerian rotation profile of a disk is the most direct way to measure a protostar's mass
(we can only see the disk, not the star itself)
Left is a model position-velocity diagram, right is the data
Red curve traces the outermost position of orbits of point particles
W51 e2e: Too optically thick at 1mm to measure disk
No emission lines from a disk were detected
Continuum appears to be high optical depth in inner ~few hundred AU
CS v=0 J=1-0 and v=0 J=2-1 masers may trace the disk?
M = 24-10 +12 M⊙
if
the masers trace a disk
If CS traces a disk (which requires assuming very, very hard),
the implied mass is ~24 Msun, which is reasonable.
CS maser conditions
van der Walt+ 2020
Top: CS J=1-0, Bottom: CS J=2-1
Red: Consistent w/W51e2e observations
Masers do not coexist; require different specific CS column (N2-1 =1015.6 , N1-0 1016.1 cm-2 )
Require high abundance (XCS > 10-5 )
Hot (300-500 K), moderate-density (n~105 cm-3 ): Disk surface? Or outflow cavity wall?
What's next for salts?
Deep VLA observations of low-J lines in Orion
ALMA-IMF Line Data: SiO
Which sources are accreting YSOs?
Allison Towner
Resolved, structured SiO outflows
5-60% of SiO at low-velocities:
Relic outflows?
ALMA-IMF Line Data: CH3 CN, CH3 CCH
Temperature measurements with per-pixel rotation diagrams
Jeff+ in prep (CH3 OH), Wyrowski+ in prep (CH3 CN)
Hot cores in ALMA-IMF: From rare objects to a population
Cores with line forests
TD >50 K
TG ≳100K
Brouillet+, in prep
Hot core overview: A lot is coming
11 HCs in W43-MM1 (Brouillet+ in prep)
~60-70 HCs in ALMA-IMF sample from CH3 OCHO (Bonfand+ in prep; left)
CH3 CN temperature maps (Wyrowski+ in prep)
Hot cores: Also in the Galactic center
Desmond Jeff:
Ten hot cores in Sgr B2 DS
TG ~ 200-500 K
M ~ 200 - 2900 M⊙
Desmond is a 4th-year PhD student
Focus on hot core temperature measurement & YSO identification
Alyssa Bulatek: Physical Processes in the CMZ
CH3 CN temperature maps
Line IDs & abundances
Summary
Most stars form in regions unlike the solar neighborhood
Greater clustering, higher SF thresholds in denser clouds
Shallower IMF in richer SF regions
We have, and are building more, tools to measure masses
ALMA-IMF core catalogs with high-resolution followup & modeling
Hot cores track the earliest stage of HMSF
Salt is a new tool to probe disks around high-mass stars
Possible future uses for these lines?
Metallicity measurement in deeply embedded star-forming environments? (at least of Na, K, Cl)
Disk kinematics of high-mass stars, which are otherwise unobservable (τ>1 at mm wavelengths)
Disk kinematic measurements at early stages?
Probe dust destruction (and/or formation?) in outflows, disks?
Probe radiation environment around HMYSOs?
Why do we see salt?
Previously, NaCl & KCl only in AGB* atmospheres,
associated with dust formation
Most likely dust destruction here
Dust destruction happens immediately as the outflow is launched?
What about excitation? We see vibrationally excited lines, which are not seen in AGB*s
We do not have a viable model to explain these temperatures
A strong non-blackbody radiation field from 25-40 µm may explain them.
Forsterite (MgSiO4 ) has some emission bands in that range. Maybe?
Looking forward:
PASHION: Paschen Alpha Survey of Hydrogen Ions
JWST: Deep Paα, Brα, and broadband imaging
PASHION: H2RG with Lockheed electronics, three narrow-band filters, 2.5" resolution, 25' FOV
A 24 cm dedicated survey telescope will be the most sensitive Galactic plane survey of ionized gas
These are fiducial numbers for a 1-year mission performing a 100 square degree blind survey. An extended mission may be possible.
PASHION, and JWST, recombination line science
Accretion onto YSOs
HII regions
Assuming typical AV ~2 per kpc
How is star formation in high-mass clusters different?
Feedback from one star affects many in clustered regions
IMF depends on density, feedback, global conditions
Total star formation efficiency is higher.
Collisions assemble the most massive stars?
Cartoon of high- and low-mass star formation
Main difference: massive stars affect their surroundings
This is the 'classical' picture of HMSF; I'll riff on it later
The key differences are the size of the feedback-affected region
and the type of feedback:
The classical picture is that high-mass stars end star formation
once they hit the main sequence / stop accreting (which are the same thing)
Classic HII region feedback: O-stars clear out their environment
Destructive feedback from expanding HII regions: the massive stars produce UV light,
ionizing and evacuating the gas
Right panel is by Anna McLeod using MUSE, done while she was a student at ESO
Accreting massive young stars affect their environment
The classic picture is incomplete: HMYSOs have a big effect
*while* they are accreting too
There is a HMYSO at the center (W51e2e)
The surrounding greyscale circular hot core is seen in
methanol emission
Data are from ALMA
Accreting massive young stars affect their environment
The outflow points to the central accreting star
The outflow implies the existence of a disk
Accreting massive young stars affect their environment
ALMA long-baseline data reveal this in more detail...
Radial profile of temperature around the source
Typical molecular clouds have temperatures 5-25 K, compared to the 100-500 K here
Methanol freezes onto grains, usually locked up in water ice:
it evaporates/desorbs at around 80-100 K
(transition) What effect does this high temperature have?
The characteristic fragmentation scale
The Jeans Mass MJ is the mass where gravity and thermal pressure are balanced.
MJ ∝ T3/2 ρ−1/2
Higher density means greater gravity, leading to collapse and fragmentation
Higher temperature means greater pressure, providing support
against gravitational collapse and suppressing it.
The characteristic fragmentation scale is larger
Jeans Mass
MJ ∝ T3/2 ρ−1/2
(describe plot)
In the warm neighborhood of accreting massive stars, the Jeans mass is higher
Despite the high density, the Jeans mass is 5-10 times greater than locally
Feedback affects dense gas
ALMA + VLA + GBT together give multiple temperature probes on multiple scales.
High-mass protoclusters are filled with gas warmed by feedback.
Floor temperature within 1 pc is ~30-40 K
Radial dependence indicates that the heating is internal
feedback-driven (as opposed to external, from surrounding OB
association)
YSO disk counts in W51
The cartoon in the context of HMSF
These high mass cores suppress low-mass star formation (LMSF) in their vicinity.
They reduce or prevent LMSF in the cores of stellar clusters.
The 'hot cores' contain a substantial fraction of the molecular cloud mass
The densest regions are the most affected
More extreme: 'cooperative accretion'
With enough high-mass stars forming concurrently, massive stars may prevent fragmentation entirely.
If they still have enough gravity to bind the gas, the remaining gas is
forced onto the most massive gravitational sinks.
High-mass stars can themselves form in a clustered fashion
This is a speculative idea so far not backed up by simulation,
but it is a plausible way to obtain an overpopulation of very
massive stars at the cores of high-mass clusters
Ammonia Masers
Large scales again: What governs the star formation rate?
Kennicutt-Schmidt relation ties gas surface density and
stellar surface density
Good correlation over several orders of magnitude, but the
scatter is substantial and important
The timescales are 100 Myr to 10 Gyr and show the "depletion
scales", the time for the gas to fully convert to stars
Turbulent ISM models
Turbulent models are the most popular and successful global
star formation models
Probability of a density vs density
Turbulent ISM models
Some of these authors describe a modified distribution
Turbulent ISM models
Gas above the threshold density forms stars
Continued turbulent driving repopulates that high density,
which gives the star formation rate
Measuring Line Profiles
SCOUSE uses pyspeckit for manual fits. Gausspy+ is machine-learning trained.
We're exploring more automated approaches.
ALMA enables protostar counting in distant, massive clouds
Sgr B2: the most massive & star-forming cloud in the Galaxy
An example of one of the clouds from the previous plots
A column density map with the locations of protostars shown as red dots
Protostars are identified in nearby clouds with IR telescopes like Spitzer and Herschel
Column density measured with extinction or dust maps, resolution limited to 30" to a few arcminutes
Protostars are counted and compared to the density they reside in
How do we learn about clustering? The IMF?
Count objects:
Cores are (sometimes) countable
Protostars are countable
YSO counts let us investigate thresholds
Local cloud studies support the idea of a gas density threshold for star formation
Thresholds are used in simulations to say "if gas reaches this density, turn it into stars"
Left: NYSOs vs total cloud mass
Right: NYSOs vs cloud mass above a fixed density
Correlation is tighter in the right plot - stars form in dense
gas
Compare YSO counts in Sgr B2 and the CMC
Comparison of Sgr B2 to the California cloud on the same spatial scale
Contours show different levels of column density and K-band extinction
Lowest contour in Sgr B2 (green) is about an order of
magnitude above highest contour in CMC
Sgr B2 sources are high-mass (>8 Msun, approx)
They represent a population of sources
CMC stars are individuals
With ALMA, we can get down to the 0.5 Msun scale eventually;
future programs (i.e., ALMA-IMF) will do that
Sgr B2 sources reside mostly in the highest contours
Y-axis shows the column density in which the protostars reside, i.e., about half of the protostars are in regions with column
density > 1024 cm-2
Lada+ 2010 threshold is well below our lowest contour
A threshold separates Sgr B2 from The Brick
Dark curve shows the same cumulative background column density
distribution from the previous slide
"The Brick" is a CMZ cloud with little star formation but
still "very high" density compared to local clouds (a few protostars
seen, and they reside in that very high end)
Only a tiny fraction of The Brick's area has a column density
that overlaps with densities at which protostars form in Sgr B2
The difference between the clouds is consistent with there being
a threshold that The Brick has not met, but Sgr B2 has
Jeff+, in prep
Walker+ 2021
1mm cores in Sgr B2 DS
Compared to Dan Walker's
3mm Luminosity Function
3mm luminosity function - all sources are confirmed, high-confidence now
Some are HII regions, most are unclassified
3LF is not an IMF
What are the sources?
At this sensitivity, all are M>8⊙ YSOs
Compare to Herschel Orion Protostar Survey extrapolated to 3mm
Most lumionus YSO in HOPS is 2000 Lsun; as long as Lsun ~ L3mm, loose implication is that
all Sgr B2 3mm YSOs are L>104 Lsun, or > 8 Msun ish