SF-04-0025

The CO outflow components ejected by a recent accretion event in B335

Chul-Hwan Kim, Jeong-Eun Lee, Carlos Contreras Pena , Doug Johnstone, Gregory J. Herczeg, John J. Tobin, Neal J. Evans II

The discrete outflow knots provide evidence of a discontinuous accretion process in the growth of stellar mass. In order to understand the direct relation between mass accretion and ejection, we analyze the contemporary accretion activity and associated outflow components in B335. The brightness of B335 in mid-IR has increased since 2010, indicative of increased luminosity, presumably due to an increase in the mass accretion rate onto the protostar. Using the CO emission known as an outflow tracer, we found high-velocity outflow components associated with this recent accretion burst in the position-velocity diagram. The high-velocity outflow components are estimated to have been ejected 4.6 to 2.0 years before the ALMA observation date, assuming what about the velocity of the knots which is consistent with the epoch of a jump in brightness. This result suggests that the detected high-velocity outflow components are directly linked to the most recent accretion activity. We calculated the kinematic energy, momentum, and force for the ejection component associated with the most recent accretion activity and found that about 1.0% of accreted mass has been ejected.