What was even more confusing was that the jets did not seem to carry nearly enough matter or force to create the massive
bipolar outflows.
Although
these bipolar outflows were moving much more slowly than the HH objects — about 10 miles per second — they were 10 times as massive as the jets, with a volume many times larger.
«This is exactly the signature we knew we would get if this was
a bipolar outflow,» explained Rongmon Bordoloi of the Space Telescope Science Institute, a co-author on the science paper.
The team observed the launching point of
a bipolar outflow, and found a cluster of vibrationally excited SiO masers tracing an outflow arising from the surface of the disk.
Not exact matches
We describe the molecular
outflow and envelope of the system based on the $ ^ -LCB- 12 -RCB- $ CO and $ ^ -LCB- 13 -RCB- $ CO emissions, which together trace a
bipolar molecular
outflow.
The protostar is surrounded by the large hot gas cloud and emanates
bipolar gas
outflow.
A
bipolar gas
outflow is ejected from the protostar (blue).