Michelle Borkin (Harvard IIC),Héctor Arce (Yale), & Alyssa Goodman (CfA/IIC)

AAS 211th Meeting - January 11, 2008

A Survey of Outflows in Perseus

A Survey of Velocity Features in Perseus

Visualize 12CO data cube in 3D Slicer

Mark high velocity points in 3D space, and export to other astronomical software

Identify outflows and calculate statistics

Outflow Identification

Velocity

DEC

RA-DEC integrated map of 12CO

RA

B5 Region of Perseus

High velocity points

Perseus Outflows

Initial results:• 32 new potential outflows

1212CO PerseusCO Perseus

Red Shifted points

Blue Shifted points

HH Objects

IRAS Sources

Known Outflow Sources

New outflows

Known outflows

Many small known outflows

Outflow extensions

Borkin, Arce, & Goodman 2008 in prep

• 9 potential new shells

New shells

• 6 known outflows extended

Preliminary Numbers for Perseus

Mass Momentum Kinetic Energy

Outflows

~90 M ~125 M km/s ~3255 x 1042 ergs

Shells ~1240 M ~1890 M km/s ~66290 x 1042 ergs

(Total mass for Perseus ~ 2.3 x 104 M )

Borkin, Arce, & Goodman 2008 in prep

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