Discovery of a Low-Mass Bipolar Molecular Outflow from L1014-IRS with the Submillimeter Array
Abstract
Using the Submillimeter Array, we report the discovery of a compact low-mass bipolar molecular outflow from L1014-IRS and confirm its association with the L1014 dense core at 200 pc. Consequently, L1014-IRS is the lowest luminosity (L~0.09 Lsolar), and perhaps the lowest mass, source known to be driving a bipolar molecular outflow, which is one of the smallest known in size (~500 AU), mass (<10-4 Msolar), and energetics (e.g., with a force <10-7 Msolar km s-1 yr-1).
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- November 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1086/498449
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0509865
- Bibcode:
- 2005ApJ...633L.129B
- Keywords:
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- ISM: Individual: Alphanumeric: L1014;
- ISM: individual (L1014-IRS);
- ISM: Jets and Outflows;
- Stars: Formation;
- Stars: Low-Mass;
- Brown Dwarfs;
- Techniques: Interferometric;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 3 figures, to appear in ApJ Letters