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[en] The process of star formation is well known in a general aspect, however, a lot of details are still missing. Some questions, such as the mode and efficiency of the accretion process or the role of the magnetic field, are still open and are key to completely understand star formation. The aim of this work is to put constraints on some of the physical and chemical processes happening in a young star forming core during the first stages of the collapse. For this purpose, we obtained high angular observations of the Class 0 protostellar object B335. This object, which is an isolated Bok Globule, is very well known as it is an excellent source to test theories of gravitational collapse during the low-mass star formation process. It has also been suggested as a good example of magnetically regulated collapse, as it presents a strongly pinched magnetic field morphology. Within the project, we obtained dust continuum and several molecular lines emission, probing scales from the envelope, around 4000 au, to the most inner part, at around 150 au, with the ALMA interferometer. Our data set has probed to be very heterogeneous in nature as well as to present complex gas kinematics, observed in complex molecular line profiles. Within our observations of rare isotopologues from CO, we observed double-peaked line profiles which could not be attributed to optically thin lines, as expected from the abundance of those molecules. We also studied the morphology of the line profiles at different offsets of the source, and found that they were not in agreement with the expected models of symmetric spherical collapse. We use these facts to study the infall modes on the source and modeled the line profiles to obtain the main parameters, such as the peak velocity, the velocity dispersion and the opacity. From this we found that the observed emission was optically thin, and that each component of the double-peaked line profile had a line width typical from infall motions. This lead us to propose that the two peaks were coming from two different gas reservoirs with different kinematics, i.e. we propose that the collapse is not symmetric and it is occurring along the exterior of the cavity walls. Since the double-peaked profiles appeared in other CO derivatives, such as HCO+ and DCO+, we kept this hypothesis of the two distinct velocity components to proceed with the derivation of the deuteration and the ionization fraction. Our values of the ionization fraction show that B335 lies in the upper range of the values computed from the literature for protostellar objects. Since we resolve the maps of the ionization fraction, we can see different tendencies that point to different ionization processes, i.e., ionization due to Cosmic Rays, probably enhanced due to the isolation of the object and the presence of an organized magnetic field, and ionization due to accretion radiation close to the protostar. We also compare the distribution of the ionization with the polarized dust emission, which is indicative of the morphology of the magnetic field. A good correlation is observed, where the largest values of the ionization fraction are correlated with the polarized continuum intensity. We also attempted for the first time to compute the effect of ambipolar diffusion in a Class 0 object, i.e., difference in the kinematics of neutral and ionic molecules. We were able to observe that both type of molecules present different ranges of the velocity dispersion, which suggests that the ions are coupled to the magnetic field. In summary, a better view of the interplay between the gas and the magnetic field is obtained, suggesting a good coupling of the two and pointing to the fact that collapse in B335 is strongly magnetically regulated. (author)
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Le processus de formation des etoiles est bien connu dans ses grand lignes, cependant, beaucoup de details manquent encore. Certaines questions, telles que le mode et l'efficacite du processus d'accretion ou le role du champ magnetique, restent ouvertes et sont essentielles pour bien comprendre le processus de formation des etoiles. Le but de ce travail est de poser des contraintes sur certains des processus physiques et chimiques qui se produisent dans un jeune coeur protostellaire pendant les premieres etapes de l'effondrement. Pur cela, nous avons obtenu des observations a haute resolution angulaire de la protoetoile de Classe 0 B335. Cet objet, qui est un globule isole, est tres connu car c'est une excellente source pour tester les theories de l'effondrement gravitationnel au cours du processus de formation des etoiles de faible masse. C'est aussi un objet prototypique car considere comme un bon exemple d'effondrement regule magnetiquement, car il presente une morphologie de champ magnetique sous forme de sablier, evocateur d'un champ fort etire paru un potentiel gravitationel. Dans le cadre du projet, nous avons obtenu des observations de l'emission thermique du continuum de poussiere et plusieurs raies moleculaires, en sondant des echelles de l'enveloppe, autour de4000 au, jusqu'a la partie la plus interne, a environ 150 au, en utilisant l'interferometre ALMA. Notre ensemble de donnees s'est avere etre de nature tres heterogene et presenter une cinematique du gaz structuree, se traduisant par des profiles complexes de raies moleculaires. Dans nos observations d'isotopologues rares du CO, nous avons observe des profils de raies a double pic qui ne pouvaient pas etre attribues a des raies optiquement minces, conformement a la faible abondance de ces molecules. Nous avons egalement etudie la morphologie des profils de raies a differents echelles de l'enveloppe et avons constate qu'ils n'etaient pas en accord avec les modeles attendus d'effondrement en symetrie spherique. Nous utilisons ces observations pour etudier la dynamique de l'effondrement sur la source et modeliser les profils de raies moleculaires pour obtenir les principaux parametres, tels que la vitesse, la dispersion de vitesse et l'opacite. a partir de cela, nous avons constate que l'emission observee etait optiquement mince et que chaque composante du profil de raies a double pic avait une largeur de raie typique des vitesses d'effondrement. Cela nous a conduit a proposer que les deux pics provenaient de deux reservoirs de gaz differents avec une cinematique differente, c'est-a-dire que nous proposons que l'effondrement n'est pas symetrique et qu'il se produit le long de l'exterieur des parois de la cavite. Puisque les profils a double pic sont apparus dans d'autres derives du CO, tels que HCO+ et DCO+,nous avons garde cette hypothese des deux composantes de vitesse distinctes pour proceder a la derivation de la deuteration et de la fraction d'ionisation. Nos valeurs de la fraction d'ionisation montrent que B335 se situe dans la plage superieure des valeurs observees dans la litterature pour les objets protostellairesOriginal Title
Caracterisation des proprietes physico-chimiques du gaz formant une etoile: observations a haute resolution de la protoetoile de Classe 0 B335
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17 Dec 2021; 171 p; 329 refs.; Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses; Astrophysique
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