Characterizing Outflows in the Cygnus X Region

Soumen Deb; Roland Kothes; Erik Rosolowsky

doi:10.1093/mnras/stab431

Characterizing Outflows in the Cygnus X Region

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2021-04-26 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Authors: Soumen Deb , Roland Kothes , Erik Rosolowsky

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Abstract

In this paper, we perform an analysis of 13 outflows in the Cygnus X star-forming region. We use the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope observations of $^{13}$ CO(3-2) and C $^{18}$ O(3-2) molecular emission lines combined with archival $^{12}$ CO(3-2) data. Using these new observations, we measure the mechanical properties of the outflows, and identify the associated protostars, finding their properties consistent with previous surveys of outflows throughout the Milky Way. Finally, we develop and test a method to measure the same properties using the existing $^{12}$ CO(3-2) line data alone, finding the properties agree to within a factor of 2.

Keywords

protostellar outflows galactic outflows molecular clouds

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.11345,
  title  = {Characterizing Outflows in the Cygnus X Region},
  author = {Soumen Deb and Roland Kothes and Erik Rosolowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11345},
  year   = {2021}
}

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