Where is the oxygen in protostellar outflows?

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2020-01-06

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Yıldız, Umut
Kristensen, Lars

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Oxygen (O) is the third most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen and helium. Despite its high elemental abundance, a good picture of where oxygen is located in low-mass protostellar outflows and jets is missing: we cannot account for > 60% of the oxygen budget in these objects. This hole in our picture means that we currently do not have a good understanding of the dominant cooling processes in outflows jets, despite the fact that [O I] emission at 63 micron is one of the dominant cooling lines, nor how cooling processes evolve with protostellar evolution. To shed light on these processes, the [O I] 63 micron line have been observed with the SOFIA Airborne Observatory's GREAT instrument toward multiple low-mass protostars. These observations help to quantify the oxygen chemistry in warm and hot gas, the relative amounts of material in the outflow and the jet, and finally to start tracing the evolutionary sequence of how feedback evolves with time.

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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020AAS...23531401Y/abstract
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115966

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