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Confirming the Explosive Outflow in G5.89 with ALMA

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-11-04 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

The explosive molecular outflow detected decades ago in the Orion BN/KL region of massive star formation was considered to be a bizarre event. This belief was strengthened by the non detection of similar cases over the years with the only exception of the marginal case of DR21. Here, we confim a similar explosive outflow associated with the UCHII_{\rm II} region G5.89-0.39 that indicates that this phenomenon is not unique to Orion or DR21. Sensitive and high angular resolution (\sim 0.1'') ALMA CO(2-1) and SiO(5-4) observations show that the molecular outflow in the massive star forming region G5.89-0.39 is indeed an explosive outflow with an age of about 1000 yrs and a liberated kinetic energy of 104649^{46-49} erg. Our new CO(2-1) ALMA observations revealed over 30 molecular filaments, with Hubble-like expansion motions, pointing to the center of UCHII_{\rm II} region. In addition, the SiO(5-4) observations reveal warmer and strong shocks very close to the origin of the explosion, confirming the true nature of the flow. A simple estimation for the occurrence of these explosive events during the formation of the massive stars indicates an event rate of once every \sim100 yrs, which is close to the supernovae rate.

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@article{arxiv.2010.13835,
  title  = {Confirming the Explosive Outflow in G5.89 with ALMA},
  author = {Luis A. Zapata and Paul T. P. Ho and Manuel Fernández-López and Estrella Guzmán Ccolque and Luis F. Rodriguez and José Reyes-Valdés and John Bally and Aina Palau and Masao Saito and Patricio Sanhueza and P. R. Rivera-Ortiz and A. Rodriguez-González},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.13835},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted by ApJ Letters. The animation is located here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a1c9JMwm0Mf8CxlfuEzyh6XmCOsgOyMA/view?usp=sharing

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