A remarkable bipolar flow in the center of the Rho ophiuchi cloud

Author(s):  
Ph. Andre ◽  
J. Martin-Pintado ◽  
D. Despois ◽  
T. Montmerle
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Author(s):  
N. Grasser ◽  
S. Ratzenböck ◽  
J. Alves ◽  
J. Großschedl ◽  
S. Meingast ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ph. André ◽  
T. Montmerle ◽  
E. D. Feigelson ◽  
P. C. Stine ◽  
K. L. Klein




1989 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 300-300
Author(s):  
Ph. Andre ◽  
J. Martin-Pintado ◽  
D. Despois ◽  
T. Montmerle

Using the IRAM 30-m telescope in August and December 1988, we have discovered the first molecular outflow in the central part (L1688) of the nearby ρ Ophiuchi dark cloud. This outflow, found in the J = 2 — 1 line of 12CO near the cloud core A, is an extreme case, weak (outflow mass-loss rate ≈ 5 x 10−8M⊙yr−1) and highly collimated (lenght to width ratio > 14), which explains why it has escaped previous detections with smaller telescopes. The high-velocity molecular gas is hot and optically thin, making the J = 2 — 1 line of 12CO ≈ 3-4 times stronger than the J = 1 — 0 line. Unexpectedly, this outflow does not appears to be driven by any of the embedded near-IR sources known in this region previous deep VLA surveys of the cloud (André, Montmerle, and Feigelson, 1987; Stine et al., 1988; André et al., in prep.). The outflow exciting source is thus probably a very low-luminosity ((L < 0.1L⊙) young stellar object. Using the 30-m equipped with the MPIfIR bolometer, we have very recently found (March 1989) that this object is the strongest continuum point source of L1688 at 1.3 mm. By analogy with L1551-IRS5 and HL Tau, the radio properties of this source suggest that it possesses a weak, possibly collimated, ionized wind and a relatively massive, cold circumstellar disk (Mdisk ≈0.1M⊙).



1991 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 229-233
Author(s):  
Alwyn Wootten

About a dozen distinct dense cores have been identified in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud. The properties of these cores are summarized and compared to the properties of cores in the Taurus molecular cloud, a less efficient region of star formation, and in DR21(OH), a more massive region of star formation. The data are consistent with a picture in which more massive clouds have a higher surface density of cores, which in turn are more massive. The adjacent cores in L1689N have been studied with very high resolution; one has formed stars and one never has. The structure of these cores shows a tendency for duplicity of structures from the largest scales (1 pc) to the smallest (50 AU).



1993 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick J. Vrba ◽  
George V. Coyne ◽  
Santiago Tapia


1980 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 620 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Lada ◽  
B. A. Wilking
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