Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988apj...333..809z&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 333, Oct. 15, 1988, p. 809-820.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Carbon Monoxide, Electron Energy, Gas Temperature, H Ii Regions, Molecular Clouds, Stellar Coronas, Emission Spectra, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Photodissociation, Star Formation
Scientific paper
In this paper, the bright-rimmed cloud L1582 is mapped in (C-12)O and (C-13)O, and the embedded NH3 core is mapped in the CS(3 - 2) line. The optical bright rim coincides with the cloud edge seen in CO. Both the kinetic temperature and column density maps show elongated features along the bright rim, and the NH3 core is located right near the edge of the cloud inside a column density plateau region corresponding to an optical extinction patch. The density enhancement in the CS core is about a factor of three over the ambient cloud and the core mass is estimated at eight solar. The dust luminosity can be supplied by radiation from the Gamma Ori OB association. The most plausible heating source for the cloud gas is the photoelectric ejection of energetic electrons from grains induced by the far-UV flux from the Gamma Ori OB association.
Butner Harold M.
Evans Neal J. II
Zhou Shudong
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