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The Nature of Shocks in Molecular Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Peter W. J. L. Brand
Peter W. J. L. Brand*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of EdinburghRoyal Observatory Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, U.K.

Abstract

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Evidence is presented to suggest that the shocked molecular hydrogen emission in the brightest part of the Orion outflow is produced in a J-shock and not a C-shock; that this is true throughout the entire flow; that it may be true in many outflow sources; and that this exacerbates problems with current explanations of the very wide velocity profiles observed in molecular hydrogen emission.

Type
I. Molecular Clouds, Star Formation And HII Regions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 120: Structure and Dynamics of the Interstellar Medium , 1989 , pp. 38 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989

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