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Interaction of Protostellar Winds with the Orion Molecular Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Toru Okuda*
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Hakodate College, Hokkaido University of Education, Hakodate, Japan

Abstract

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The effect of a strong protostellar wind on a dense molecular cloud with a magnetic field is investigated by time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic calculations which take into account the cooling due to H2 molecules as the dominant one. The shocked region obtained here seems to be responsible for the formation of the bright H2 emission with a high-velocity width observed in the Orion-KL Nebula.

Type
I. Star Forming Processes in the Solar Neighborhood
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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