The physical conditions in the BHR71 outflows

Parise, Berengere, Belloche, Arnaud, Leurini, Silvia and Schilke, Peter 2008. The physical conditions in the BHR71 outflows. Astrophysics and Space Science 313 (1-3) , pp. 73-76. 10.1007/s10509-007-9588-3

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Abstract

Highly-collimated outflows are believed to be the earliest stage in outflow evolution, so their study is essential for understanding the processes driving outflows. The BHR71 Bok globule is known to harbour such a highly-collimated outflow, which is powered by a protostar belonging to a protobinary system. Using the APEX telescope on Chajnantor, we mapped the BHR71 highly-collimated outflow in CO(3-2), and observed several bright points of the outflow in the molecular transitions CO(4-3), CO(7-6), 13CO(3-2), C18O(3-2), CH3OH(7-6) and H2CO(4-3). We use an LVG code to characterise the temperature enhancements in these regions. These observations are particularly interesting for investigating the interaction of collimated outflows with the ambient molecular cloud. In our CO(3-2) map, the second outflow driven by IRS2, which is the second source of the binary system, is completely revealed and shown to be bipolar. We also measure temperature enhancements in the lobes. The CO and methanol LVG modelling points to temperatures between 30 and 50 K in the two lobes. The methanol emission in the southern lobe bright knot is barely resolved with the APEX single-dish. ALMA will thus be a central tool to study the shock chemistry in these regions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Astrochemistry; Molecular data; Stars: formation; ISM: jets and outflows; Submillimeter
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0004-640X
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 09:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/52813

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