FIFI-LS FIR view of Orion: Fine structure and CO lines

Encalada, Frankie

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Title

FIFI-LS FIR view of Orion: Fine structure and CO lines

Author(s)

Encalada, Frankie

Contributor(s)

• Vacca, William
• Raab, Walfried
• Poglitsch, Albrecht
• Krabbe, Alfred
• Iserlohe, Christof
• Hönle, Rainer
• Geis, Norbert
• Fadda, Dario
• Colditz, Sebastian
• Fischer, Christian
• Klein, Randolf
• Looney, Leslie

Issue Date

2018-06-21

Keyword(s)

Astronomy

Abstract

The Orion Nebula is the closest massive star forming region, which allows us to study its physical conditions at high spatial resolution. We used the far infrared integral-field spectrometer, FIFI-LS, on-board the airborne observatory SOFIA to study the Orion Nebula’s atomic and molecular gas. We obtained large maps of fine structure and CO lines that span the nebula from the BN/KL-object to the bar. These maps allow us to study the conditions of the photon-dominated region and the interface to the molecular cloud. A five-hundred-year-old violent explosion in the Orion Nebula has been stirring up the BN/KL region via wide-angled molecular outflows. We present maps of several high-J CO observations, allowing analysis of the heated molecular gas.

Publisher

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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DOI

10.15278/isms.2018.RL07

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Copyright 2018 Frankie Encalada

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