An Unbiased Census of Weak Herbig-Haro Flows in the R Corona Australis Star Forming Region

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Bipolar outflows are produced by protostars as they draw gas from surrounding accretion disks. As these outflows collide with the interstellar medium, bow shocks are produced, giving rise to Herbig-Haro knots. A Herbig-Haro flow is a sign that active accretion is occurring in a protostellar system. In an effort to constrain the time available for giant planet formation in gas- rich disks, we seek to find weak Herbig-Haro flows by sensitively mapping the entire R Corona Australis star forming region. Between ≤ 1 and 6 Myrs old (Neuhäuser et al. 2000), and located approximately 129±11pc away (Casey et al. 1998), the R Corona Australis region is home to approximately 50 young stars (Neuhäuser et al. 2000). We have imaged this region in the near-IR using a narrow band H2 S(1) filter that isolates emission from the ν=1, J=3 level of H2 at 2.12 μm. We will present preliminary results of this analysis.

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