Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, July 15-20, 2013

Poster 1B034

Evolutionary diversity in a massive protocluster: Subarcsecond (600 AU) imaging of NGC6334I from 6 cm to 0.8 mm

Hunter, Todd (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Brogan, Crystal (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Cyganowski, Claudia (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Young, Ken (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Menten, Karl (Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy)
Indebetouw, Remy (University of Virginia, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Chandler , Claire (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Beuther, Henrik (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

Abstract:
We explore the evolutionary diversity of the massive protocluster NGC 6334 I using comparable sub-arcsecond resolution (~600 AU at 1.6 kpc) imaging from centimeter to submillimeter wavelengths. Using the recently upgraded Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at 6 cm, 1.5 cm, and 0.7 cm and the A and B configurations, we have detected all four members of the massive millimeter protocluster NGC 6334 I in at least one centimeter wavelength. We also find a new continuum source (JVLA1) detected only at 6 cm which coincides with the group of water masers located north of SMA1. Combined with Submillimeter Array (SMA) imaging at 1.3 mm and 0.86 mm, we analyze the continuum emission from each object, disentangling the dust component from the various types of free-free emission where possible. We briefly summarize the relative evolutionary state of all the objects in light of these latest images of the continuum, molecular line, and maser emission.

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