A new, compact far-infrared source in the W31 region

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Apr 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978apj...221l..77f&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor, vol. 221, Apr. 15, 1978, p. L77-L81.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Far Infrared Radiation, Infrared Astronomy, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Ammonia, Carbon Monoxide, Continuous Radiation, H Ii Regions, Hydroxyl Emission, Stellar Evolution, Water Masers

Scientific paper

In a survey of the W31 region, a compact far-infrared source was detected at the position of the radio continuum source G 10.6-0.4. Associated with this infrared source and in close coincidence with its position is an H II region with a compact core and extended halo as well as OH and H2O masers. An extended molecular cloud, centered on these sources, has also been detected. The compact source and associated masers may be located at the H II region-molecular-cloud interface in a thin shocked layer of neutral gas driven into the molecular cloud by the expansion of the H II region. The compact H II region is depleted of dust and must be surrounded by a very dense shell of dust and gas (hydrogen number density in excess of 200,000 per cu cm). The source probably represents an early stage of stellar evolution.

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