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Sub-Millimeter Variability in the Envelope & Warped Protostellar Disk of the Class 0 Protostar HOPS 358 by Sheehan, Patrick D.; Johnstone, Doug; Peña, Carlos Contreras; Lee, Seonjae; Herczeg, Gregory; Lee, Jeong-Eun; Mairs, Steve; Tobin, John J.; Yun, Hyeong-Sik; Team, The JCMT Transient is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sub-Millimeter Variability in the Envelope & Warped Protostellar Disk of the Class 0 Protostar HOPS 358 about?

The JCMT Transient Survey recently discovered that the Class 0 protostar HOPS 358 decreased in 350 GHz continuum brightness by $\sim25$% over the course of four years before brightening again for the next four. The JCMT lightcurve can be fit by a long timescale dip lasting roughly eight years. A shorter timescale periodicity is also apparent with a period of 1.75 years and a small 3% amplitude. NEOWise monitoring reveals that the mid-IR wavelength brightness of HOPS 358 follows a similar long-term pattern in time. Here, we present a study of nine epochs of ALMA observations of HOPS 358 taken over the course of the decline and subsequent rise in brightness seen with the JCMT to test whether the variation seen on $\sim15"$ scales, covering both disk and envelope, is also observed on smaller, $<1"$ scales that primarily probe HOPS 358's protostellar disk. We detect both HOPS 358 and its southern companion, HOPS 358B, in our ALMA observations, and find that at least one of the two is varying. Assuming that HOPS 358 is the variable, the light curve has the same shape as that found by the JCMT. Additionally, our high resolution ALMA imaging of HOPS 358 reveals that the disk is warped, wi

Author

Sheehan, Patrick D.; Johnstone, Doug; Peña, Carlos Contreras; Lee, Seonjae; Herczeg, Gregory; Lee, Jeong-Eun; Mairs, Steve; Tobin, John J.; Yun, Hyeong-Sik; Team, The JCMT Transient

Published

2025

Language

EN