Two New Molecular Outflows in L1551?
Abstract
Evidence is presented to the effect that the CO emission previously associated with the northern rim of the redshifted lobe of the L1551/IRS 5 outflow may be produced by the interaction of the HH-30 optical jet and with the L1551 molecular cloud. It is concluded that the redshifted lobe of L1551/IRS 5 is more collimated than was previously thought and the high-velocity CO in this lobe may be confined to an incomplete shell. The molecular outflow associated with HH-30 may be dynamically distinct from the compact flow previously recognized to exist in the HL/XZ Tau region. The discovery of a second new outflow in the L1551 cloud, L1551W, is reported; it consists of a lobe of redshifted emission centered about 17 arcmin west of IRS 5. No obvious infrared candidate for the exciting source of this outflow is found.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1991ApJ...383..705P
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Spectroscopy;
- Interstellar Gas;
- Molecular Clouds;
- Star Formation;
- Carbon Monoxide;
- Emission Spectra;
- Herbig-Haro Objects;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Red Shift;
- Astrophysics;
- INTERSTELLAR: MOLECULES;
- NEBULAE: INDIVIDUAL ALPHANUMERIC: L1551 (LYNDS 1551);
- NEBULAE: INTERNAL MOTIONS;
- STARS: PRE--MAIN-SEQUENCE;
- STARS: WINDS