PROSAC: A Submillimeter Array Survey of Low‐Mass Protostars. I. Overview of Program: Envelopes, Disks, Outflows, and Hot Cores
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Abstract
This paper presents a large spectral line and continuum survey of eight deeply embedded, low-mass protostellar cores using the SMA. High-excitation line emission from 11 molecular species originating in warm and dense gas has been imaged at high angular resolution (1''-3'', typically 200-600 AU) together with continuum emission at 230 GHz (1.3 mm) and 345 GHz (0.8 mm). Compact continuum emission is observed for all sources, which likely originates in marginally optically thick circumstellar disks, with typical lower limits to their masses of 0.1 M ☉ (1%-10% of the masses of their envelopes) and a dust opacity law, κ ν ∝ ν β , with β ≈ 1. Prominent collimated outflows are present in CO 2-1 observations in all sources. The most diffuse outflows are found in the sources with the lowest ratios of disk to envelope mass, and it is suggested that these sources are in a phase where accretion of matter from the envelope has almost finished and the remainder of the envelope material is being dispersed by the outflows. Other characteristic dynamical signatures are inverse P Cygni profiles indicative of infalling motions seen in the 13 CO 2-1 lines toward NGC 1333 IRAS 4A and NGC 1333 IRAS 4B. Outflow-induced shocks are present on all scales in the protostellar environments and are most clearly traced by the emission of CH 3 OH in NGC 1333 IRAS 4A and NGC 1333 IRAS 4B. These observations suggest that the emission of CH 3 OH and H 2 CO from these proposed ``hot corinos'' is related to the shocks caused by the protostellar outflows. Only one source, NGC 1333 IRAS 2A, has evidence for hot, compact CH 3 OH emission coincident with the embedded protostar.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".