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Wiggling Structures Along the NGC 1333 IRAS 2A Outflow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2013

Cheng-Hung Tsai
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan email: [email protected]
Huei-Ru Chen
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan email: [email protected] Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Chin-Fei Lee
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Naomi Hirano
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Hsien Shang
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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Wiggling structures in a bipolar outflow may be attributed to orbital motion of a binary system or precession of an accretion disk perturbed by a companion. The shocked knots along the outflow axis display a morphology with either mirror symmetry due to the orbital motion or point symmetry resulted from disk precession. Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), our CO (2-1) and SiO (5-4) observations show wiggling structures in the collimated bipolar outflow driven by the NGC 1333 IRAS 2A Class 0 protostar (d ~ 200 pc). By fitting the peak positions of emission knots, we can examine the lateral displacement of the molecular jet to constrain parameters of the unresolved binary system, such as the binary separation and total binary mass. With an angular resolution of ~3, we have determined the knot positions in SiO (5–4)(Fig. 1) and CO (2–1). As a first attempt, we consider the scenario of orbital motion in a binary system and estimate a total binary mass of ~ 1M and a binary separation of roughly ~ 20 AU, corresponding to ~ 0.1. Such a small separation makes it challenging to resolve this hypothesized proto-binary system, which is thought to be responsible for the large-scale quadrupolar outflow nearly perpendicular with each other in CO (1–0).

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