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In the News: "Tadpole hunters" may net forming planets
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Abstract. Three cometary-shaped objects in the giant HII region NGC3603, originally found and identified as proto-planetary disks (ProPlyDs) by Brandner et al. 2000) using HST+VLT in the optical and near-infrared, have been detected with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in the radio continuum at 3 and 6 cm. All three ProPlyD-like objects are clearly resolved with an extent of a few arcseconds. The integrated 6 cm fluxes are up to 1.3 times higher than the 3 cm fluxes with spectral indices averaged over the whole clump between alpha=0.1 and -0.5 (S_nu ~ nu^alpha), indicating non-thermal emission for two of the three sources. We present spectral index maps, and show that the sites of negative radio spectral indices are predominantly concentrated in the direction of the tails in all three ProPlyD-like nebulae while positive spectral indices are found in the region facing the ionizing star cluster. In two of the three objects optically thin non-thermal (gyro-)synchrotron emission appears to dominate on average, while the average spectrum of the third source is in agreement with thermal bremsstrahlung or free-free absorbed gyrosynchrotron radiation. All measured fluxes are at least one order of magnitude higher than those predicted by Brandner et al. (2000). Upper limits for mass loss rates due to photo-evaporation are calculated to be 10^-5 Msun/year and for electron densities to be 10^4 cm^-3. Due to the unexpectedly large radio luminosities of the ProPlyD-like features a (proto-)stellar origin of the non-thermal emission from a dust enshrouded star appears unlikely. Instead we propose that magnetized regions within the envelope of the ProPlyD-like nebulae exist with a total emitting volume much smaller than the whole extent of the ProPlyD-like clump.
Headings: interstellar medium: HII regions: individual (NGC 3603) --- stars: pre-main-sequence --- stars: early type, interferometry --- stars: formation
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