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Molecular Outflows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Ronald L. Snell
Ronald L. Snell*
Affiliation:
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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The development of millimeter and submillimeter spectroscopy has allowed astronomers to probe the cold, dense component of the interstellar medium. This medium, primarily composed of gas in molecular form, is gravitationally bound into relatively distinct clouds that are sites of star formation within our Galaxy. The most ubiquitous tracers of these molecular clouds are the rotational transitions of carbon monoxide. Observations of CO emission have been commonly used to estimate the size, temperature, mass, and density of molecular clouds; in addition, the spectral line profiles can be used to study the internal dynamics of these clouds. Although the sound speed within molecular clouds is only about 0.2 km s−1, observed CO line widths are more typically 1 to 5 km s−1. Thus, the internal dynamics of molecular clouds are characterized by supersonic gas motions whose nature is poorly understood.

Type
III. Discs, Outflows, Jets and HH Objects
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 120: Structure and Dynamics of the Interstellar Medium , 1989 , pp. 231 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989

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