Interferometric Imaging of IRAS 04368+2557 in the L1527 Molecular Cloud Core: A Dynamically Infalling Envelope with Rotation

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Abstract

We report new interferometric observations of IRAS 04368+2557 (L1527) in 13CO (J = 1-0), C18O (J = 1-0), and 2.7 mm continuum emission using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array. The continuum map shows a well-defined emission peak with slightly extended features. The extended features are consistent with an 800 μm continuum map. The 13CO map shows blueshifted and redshifted outflowing shells characterized by a bipolar V-shape structure with a wide opening angle toward the east and west of the central source. Near the systemic velocity, a slightly blueshifted X-shaped condensation was detected in 13CO with its peak coincident with the central source. The symmetrical distribution of the X-shaped condensation centered on the central source suggests that it is a circumstellar envelope surrounding the central source. The C18O map shows a flattened structure elongated in the north-south direction, perpendicular to the outflow axis, centered on the central source. This flattened structure correlates spatially with the 13CO X-shaped condensation. Both eastern and western edges of the flattened structure are concave, as the 13CO X-shaped condensation also shows, and they are spatially well anticorrelated with the distribution of the outflowing shells in both blueshifted and redshifted velocities. The flattened structure is hence naturally interpreted as a disklike flattened envelope with an almost edge-on configuration. Its radius and gas mass are estimated to be ~2000 AU and ~0.038 M☉, respectively.

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