Phillips, J. P. and White, Glenn J.
(1982).
| URL: | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982ESASP.189...33P |
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Abstract
Orion A is one of the nearest and best studied regions of star formation, the strongest CO source so far detected, and a particularly fruitful region in the search for new and ever more exotic molecules. A stellar wind, with genesis in some newly formed or forming star, is being power driven into a surrounding placental cloud. The resulting shocks lead to densities of order 1 x 106 1cm-3 or higher, and gas kinetic temperatures T ~ 2000 K, causing excitation of H2 quadrupole emission in the near infrared and the higher rotational transitions of CO in the far-infrared.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 1982 Not known |
| Extra Information: | ESA The Scientific Importance of Submillimeter Observations
(SEE N83-22034 11-88) pp. 33-36 |
| Keywords: | molecular rotation; Orion constellation; quadrupoles; stellar evolution; stellar winds; thermal shock; velocity distribution; carbon monoxide; density (mass/volume); gas temperature; hydrogen; kinematics; molecular clouds; protostars |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Science > Physical Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) |
| Item ID: | 33793 |
| Depositing User: | Glenn White |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2012 07:56 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2012 07:56 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33793 |
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