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An extremely-high-velocity multipolar outflow around IRAS 20050+2720

R. Bachiller, A. Fuente and M. Tafalla
Centro Astronómico de Yebes (OAN, IGN), Apartado 148, E-19080 Guadalajara, Spain
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MS 42, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Abstract: We report high-angular resolution maps in the CO 21 and CS 32 lines of the molecular gas around the embedded object IRAS 20050+2027 (figure reffig:bachiller). This is a 260 source located in the Cygnus Rift at 700 pc from the Sun. The CS data uncover a dense core of size 0.3 pc, and 80 centered on the IRAS object. The CO map reveals a remarkable molecular outflow consisting of three pairs of lobes emanating from the close vicinity of the IRAS source. One of the lobe pairs is a highly-collimated jet of extremely high-velocity emission (LSR velocities up to 70 km/s) containing molecular ``bullets''.

We briefly examine different possibilities to explain the complex structure of the multipolar outflow. A single outflow appears unable to explain all the CO observations, so we suggest that two or three independent outflows emanate from different young sources embedded within the core.

  
Figure 5: CO 2--1 channel maps of the IRAS 20050 outflow. The channels, denoted by EHV1, EHV2, IHV, and SHV, are 50, 25, 10, and 5 km/s wide, and are centered at = 70, 32.5, 15, and 7.5 km/s, respectively, where = 6 km/s is the velocity of the ambient cloud. First contour and step are at 10 K km/s for the EHV intervals, and 7 K km/s for the SHV and IHV intervals. Solid contours are for the blue-shifted emission, and dashed contours for the red-shifted. The origin is at the nominal position of IRAS 20050. The crosses represent the IRAS sources IRAS 20050 and IRAS 20049+2721, and the triangle marks the position of a strong CS emission peak. The axes A, B, C are drawn to illustrate the multi-lobe structure of the outflow.



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