The VLA/ALMA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity (VANDAM) Survey of Orion Protostars IV. Unveiling the Embedded Intermediate-Mass Protostar and Disk within OMC2-FIR3/HOPS-370

2020 
We present ALMA (0.87~mm and 1.3~mm) and VLA (9~mm) observations toward the candidate intermediate-mass protostar OMC2-FIR3 (HOPS-370; \lbol$\sim$314~\lsun) at $\sim$0\farcs1 (40~au) resolution for the continuum emission and $\sim$0\farcs25 (100 au) resolution of nine molecular lines. The dust continuum observed with ALMA at 0.87~mm and 1.3~mm resolve a near edge-on disk toward HOPS-370 with an apparent radius of $\sim$100~au. The VLA observations detect both the disk in dust continuum and free-free emission extended along the jet direction. The ALMA observations of molecular lines (H$_2$CO, SO, CH$_3$OH, \thco, \cateo, NS, and H$^{13}$CN) reveal rotation of the apparent disk surrounding HOPS-370 orthogonal to the jet/outflow direction. We fit radiative transfer models to both the dust continuum structure of the disk and molecular line kinematics of the inner envelope and disk for the H$_2$CO, CH$_3$OH, NS, and SO lines. The central protostar mass is determined to be $\sim$2.5~\msun\ with a disk radius of $\sim$94~au, when fit using combinations of the H$_2$CO, CH$_3$OH, NS, and SO lines, consistent with an intermediate-mass protostar. Modeling of the dust continuum and spectral energy distribution (SED) yields a disk mass of 0.035~\msun\ (inferred dust+gas) and a dust disk radius of 62~au, thus the dust disk may have a smaller radius than the gas disk, similar to Class II disks. In order to explain the observed luminosity with the measured protostar mass, HOPS-370 must be accreting at a rate between 1.7 and 3.2$\times$10$^{-5}$~\msun~yr$^{-1}$.
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