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2003A&A...411..437G - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 411, 437-446 (2003/12-1)

New insight into shocks and star formation in Orion: First light with GriF.

GUSTAFSSON M., KRISTENSEN L.E., CLENET Y., FIELD D., LEMAIRE J.L., PINEAU DES FORETS G., ROUAN D. and LE COARER E.

Abstract (from CDS):

A new instrument, ``GriF'', has been used on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to record spatially and velocity resolved images, in the H2 v=1-0 S(1) line in the K-band, of a 1'x1' field in the core of the Orion Molecular Cloud, OMC1. Using the PUEO adaptive optics system combined with Fabry-Perot interferometry, diffraction limited spatial resolution of 0.15" and velocity discrimination of ∼1km/s has been achieved. These data yield graphic images of shocks in OMC 1, presenting a level of detail which has not previously been attained. Observed structures suggest that a significant fraction of the regions strongly emitting in H2 do so through local, internal shocks, associated with star formation within the clumps of gas involved. Thus the core of OMC 1 is revealed for the first time as a region which contains a number of developed protostars.

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Journal keyword(s): ISM: individual objects: OMC 1 - ISM: kinematics and dynamics - ISM: molecules - shock waves - ISM: lines and bands - stars: formation

Nomenclature: Fig.4, Table 1: [GKC2003] NNa (Nos 1-19), N=23.

Simbad objects: 29

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