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Discovery of a Low Mass Bipolar Molecular Outflow from L1014-IRS with the Submillimeter Array

Tyler L. Bourke, Antonio Crapsi, Philip C. Myers, Neal J. Evans, David J. Wilner, Tracy L. Huard, Jes K. Jorgensen, Chadwick H. Young

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0509865

Abstract

Using the Submillimeter Array we report the discovery of a compact low mass bipolar molecular outflow from L1014-IRS and confirm its association with the L1014 dense core at 200 pc. Consequently, L1014-IRS is the lowest luminosity (L \~0.09 Lsun) and perhaps the lowest mass source known to be driving a bipolar molecular outflow, which is one of the smallest known in size (~500 AU), mass (< 10-4 Msun), and energetics (e.g., force < 10-7 Msun km/s/yr).

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