Protostellar cores in Sagittarius B2 N and M: continuum data

This is a set of self-calibrated continuum FITS files for the ALMA Cycle 4 project 2016.1.00550.S. The paper "Protostellar cores in Sagittarius B2 N and M" was accepted to ApJ on September 15, 2023. 

Paper abstract:

We present 500 AU and 700 AU resolution 1 mm and 3 mm ALMA observations, respectively, of protostellar cores in protoclusters Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) North (N) and Main (M), parts of the most actively star-forming cloud in our Galaxy. Previous lower resolution (5000 AU) 3 mm observations of this region detected \(\sim\)150 sources inferred to be young stellar objects (YSOs) with \(M>8\mathrm{\,M}_\odot\). With a tenfold increase in resolution, we detect 371 sources at 3 mm and 218 sources in the smaller field of view at 1 mm. The sources seen at low resolution are observed to fragment into an average of two objects. About a third of the observed sources fragment.Most of the sources we report are marginally resolved and are at least partially optically thick. We determine that the observed sources are most consistent with Stage 0/I YSOs, i.e., rotationally supported disks with an active protostar and an envelope, that are warmer than those observed in the solar neighborhood.We report source-counting-based inferred stellar mass and the star formation rate of the cloud: \(2800\mathrm{\,M}_\odot\), \(0.0038\mathrm{\,M}_\odot \mathrm{yr}^{-1}\) for Sgr B2 N and \(6900\mathrm{\,M}_\odot, 0.0093\mathrm{\,M}_\odot \mathrm{yr}^{-1}\) for Sgr B2 M respectively.