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    Klaassen, P. D.; Juhasz, A; Mathews, G. S.; Mottram, J. C.; De Gregorio-Monsalvo, I.; van Dishoeck, E. F.; Takahashi, S.; Akiyama, E.; Chapillon, E.; Espada, D.; Hales, A.; Hogerheijde, M. R.; Rawlings, M.; Schmalzl, M.; Testi, L.

    Astronomy & astrophysics, 07/2013, Letnik: 555
    Journal Article

    Disk winds have been postulated as a mechanism for angular momentum release in protostellar systems for decades. HD 163296 is a Herbig Ae star surrounded by a disk and has been shown to host a series of HH knots (HH 409) with bow shocks associated with the farthest knots. Here we present ALMA science verification data of CO J = 2–1 and J = 3–2 emission, which are spatially coincident with the blue shifted jet of HH knots, and offset from the disk by −18.6 km s-1. The emission has a double corkscrew morphology and extends more than 10′′ from the disk with embedded emission clumps coincident with jet knots. We interpret this double corkscrew as emission from material in a molecular disk wind, and that the compact emission near the jet knots is being heated by the jet that is moving at much higher velocities. We show that the J = 3–2 emission is likely heavily filtered by the interferometer, but the J = 2–1 emission suffers less due to the larger beam and sensitivity to larger scale structures. Excitation analysis suggests temperatures exceeding 900 K in these compact features, with the wind mass, momentum and energy being of order 10-5 M⊙, 10-4 M⊙ km s-1 and 1040 erg, respectively. The high mass loss rate suggests that this star is dispersing the disk faster than it is funneling mass onto the star.