VLTIMIDI Observations of the Massive Protostellar Candidate NGC 3603 IRS 9A

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arXiv:0711.4760v1 [astro-ph] 29 Nov 2007**FULLTITLE**ASPConferenceSeries,Vol.**VOLUME**,**YEAROFPUBLICATION****NAMESOFEDITORS**

VLTI/MIDIObservationsoftheMassiveProtostellarCandidateNGC3603IRS9A

StefanVehoff,1,2DieterE.A.N¨urnberger,1ChristianA.Hummel,3andWolfgangJ.Duschl4,5

Abstract.WeusedMIDI,themid-infraredinterferometricinstrumentoftheVLTI,toobservethemassiveprotostellarcandidateIRS9A,locatedatadistanceofabout7kpcattheperipheryoftheNGC3603starcluster.OurongoinganalysisshowsthatMIDIalmostfullyresolvestheobjectonallob-servedbaselines,yetbelow9µmwedetectasteepriseofthevisibility.Thisfeatureismodelledasacombinationofacompacthotcomponentandare-solvedwarmenvelopewhichlowersthecorrelatedfluxatlongerwavelengths.TheextendedenvelopecanalreadybeseeninbothMIDI’sacquisitionimagesandincomplementarydatafromaperturemaskingobservationsattheGeminiSouthtelescope.Itsshapeisasymmetric,whichcouldindicateacircumstellardiskinclinedagainstthelineofsight.Thecompactcomponentispossiblyre-latedtotheinneredgeofthis(accretion)disk.Theuncorrelatedmid-infraredspectrumappearsfeaturelessandcouldbecausedbyopticallythickemissionwithoutasignificantcontributionfromthediskatmosphere.

1.IntroductionThegiantHIIregionNGC3603ispoweredbyoneofthedensestclustersofhighmassstarsknowninourgalaxy.Duetoitsvicinitytothiscluster,IRS9AhasbeenliberatedfrommostofthegasanddustofitsnatalmolecularcloudbythestrongstellarwindsandionisingradiationarisingfromthenearbyO-typemain-sequencestars.Thisofferstheuniquepossibilitytoobserveahighmassstaratinfraredwavelengthsduringitsrelativelyearlyevolutionaryphase.

2.ObservationsanddatareductionIRS9AwasobservedwithMIDI(Leinertetal.2003)duringthreenightsin2005.Thefirsttwoobservationswerecarriedoutonthe26thandthe27th2Vehoffetal.UT2–UT32005-02-2708:35:1031.879.8”2005-02-2806:48:3538.060.8””07:43:5034.970.8””08:33:2531.780.2””09:21:1228.190.1UT3–UT42005-03-0307:10:4962.5131.9””08:54:3362.0155.5VLTI/MIDIObservationsofIRS9A3

Figure2.Left:AcquisitionimagefromVLTI+MIDI.Right:MEMimagefromGeminiSouth+T-ReCSaperturemaskingdata(J.Monnier,priv.comm.;scaleonbothaxesisinunitsofmas).

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Figure3.Left:Spectraobtainedduringthesecondnight.Thedashedlinesaretheindividualmeasurements,thesolidlineshowstheaveragetogetherwiththestandarddeviationaserrorbars.Right:Correspondingvisibilitymeasurementsfromthesamenight.

2.3.VisbilitiesGiventhedetectionoftheextendedenvelopearoundIRS9Awealreadyexpectedthevisibilitiestobequitelow.Figure3showsthecalibratedandsquaredvis-ibilitiesofthesecondnight.Theirvalueisbasicallyzeroaboveawavelengthof9µm,butthereisaverysteeprisewithdecreasingwavelengthbelow9µm.However,eventhelargestvaluesareonlyoftheorderof0.1andlieattheveryedgeoftheatmosphericwindow.Exceptforoneobservationonthe3rdofMarch,allthemeasurementsareingoodagreementanddonotshowastrongdependencyonthepositionangle,ifany.

3.ModellingtheSEDandthevisibilitiesApartfromthespectrumtakenwithMIDIwehaveathandadditionalmid-infraredfluxesofIRS9A(N¨urnberger2003).WeusetwopubliclyavailableradiativetransfercodestomodelthespectralenergydistributionofIRS9A:ThefirstoneisDUSTY(Ivezi´c,Nenkova,&Elitzur1999),whichsolvesthe4Vehoffetal. 1 10 100 1000

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data points from Nürnberger 2003data points from recent VISIR commissioning datasum of 3 black bodies with T = 250, 1350 and 22000 Kresult of a calculation with MC3D

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2005-02-28 - 08:33:25model visibility from MC3D

Figure4.Left:SEDmodelobtainedwithMC3Dincomparisontothesumofthreeblackbodiesandouradditionalnear-infrareddata.Right:Thevisibilityofthismodelcomparedtooneofthemeasurements.

radiationtransportforasphericaldustdistribution.ThesecondoneisMC3D(Wolf,Henning,&Stecklum1999),whichcanhandlemorecomplexgeometriesbutusesMonteCarlomethodstosolvetheradiationtransport.BothmodelsareabletoreproducetheSEDquitewell.Theradiativetransfercodesallowtocreatemapsofthesurfacebrightnessforagivenwavelength,whichcanthenbeusedtocalculatethewavelengthdependentvisibilities.TheDUSTYmodelyieldsvisibilitieswhicharenottoofarfromourmeasurements,butthevisibilitybelow9µmrisesrathergently,anditalsoshowsabumpbetween9and10µm.ThevisibilitiesfromourMC3Dmodelproduceabetterfittotheobserveddata,buttheslopebelow9µmisstillnotsteepenough.Figure4showstheresultsobtainedwithMC3D.

4.DiscussionOurongoinganalysisoftheMIDIdatashowsIRS9Atobealmostcompletelyresolvedonbaselinesoftheorderof30m.Themid-infraredspectrumisfea-tureless,andmostlikelycausedbyemissionfromawarmenvelope.Themodelsaresofarunabletoaccountforthesteepriseofthevisibilitytowardstheshortwavelengthend,sothatthenatureofthiscompactcomponentremainsunclearandfurtherrefinementsofthemodelsareneeded.