Massive molecular outflows
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Well established correlations of low-mass flows show a continuity in the high-mass regime, and mean accretion rates for L>1000 Lsun are dM/dt~10^(-4) Msun/yr. We also present a tight correlation between outflow masses and core masses, which implies that the accretion rate is to first order a linear function of the core mass. All those results support the idea that similar physical processes drive outflows of all masses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0110372,
title = {Massive molecular outflows},
author = {H. Beuther and P. Schilke and K. M. Menten and C. M. Walmsley and T. K. Sridharan and F. Wyrowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0110372},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 ps-figures, in: Proceedings of The earliest phases of massive star birth