Observations of spiral and streamer on a candidate proto-brown dwarf

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  • B Riaz
    Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Ludwig Maximilians Universität , Scheinerstraβe 1, D-81679 München , Germany
  • D Stamatellos
    Jeremiah Horrocks Institute for Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy, University of Central Lancashire , Preston PR1 2HE , UK
  • M N Machida
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University , Fukuoka , Japan

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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>Spirals and streamers are the hallmarks of mass accretion during the early stages of star formation. We present the first observations of a large-scale spiral and a streamer towards a very young brown dwarf candidate in its early formation stages. These observations show, for the first time, the influence of external environment that results in asymmetric mass accretion via feeding filaments on to a candidate proto-brown dwarf in the making. The impact of the streamer has produced emission in warm carbon-chain species close to the candidate proto-brown dwarf. Two contrasting scenarios, a pseudo-disc twisted by core rotation and the collision of dense cores, can both explain these structures. The former argues for the presence of a strong magnetic field in brown dwarf formation while the latter suggests that a minimal magnetic field allows large-scale spirals and clumps to form far from the candidate proto-brown dwarf.</jats:p>

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