NASA NTRS · 19890023059
Molecular outflows in the Monoceros OB1 molecular cloud
Abstract
Observations of J = 1-0 emission from CO in nine suspected molecular outflows in the Monoceros OB1 molecular cloud are presented. It is found that, if the five sources which are confirmed to be outflows conserve momentum as they evolve, they will sweep up at least 0.6 percent of the mass of the entire cloud before coming into pressure equilibrium with the ambient gas. This number indicates that it should take at most 160 episodes of similar outflow activity in order to sweep up the bulk of the Mon OB1 cloud to highly supersonic speeds.
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Margulis, Michael, Lada, Charles J., Snell, Ronald L.. 1988-10-01. Molecular outflows in the Monoceros OB1 molecular cloud. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890023059
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