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Project Abstract and Description
High Resolution Observations of the NGC 2024 Outflows
L. Chernin
Contact: L. Chernin
Email: lchernin@astron.berkeley.edu
Number of images in project: 1
References: 1996ApJ...460..711C
Abstract
We present high spatial resolution (4") , fully sampled images obtained
with the BIMA interferomter and the NRAO 12m telescope of the outflows
in the NGC 2024 FIR 5 and FIR 6 regions. We find a rather complex
distribution of molecular outflow emission in the region, and argue
that at least three separate sources are driving jet-like molecular
outflow. Furthermore, from the positions of the outflow lobes, it
seems unlikely that the outflows are driven by the FIR objects, as had
been previously thought. Instead we propose that the outflows are
driven by jets from faint, as yet undetected low mass stars which are
located in the molecular cores adjacent to the FIR objects.
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