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3 - IRAS 16293 in Ophiuchus

from Part II - Low-Mass Star Formation (LMSF)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2023

Duncan MacKay ,
Mark Thompson  and
James Urquhart
Duncan MacKay
Affiliation:
University of Kent, Canterbury
Mark Thompson
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
James Urquhart
Affiliation:
University of Kent, Canterbury
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The chapter takes a detailed look at low-mass star formation towards IRAS 16293-2422, a warm core surrounding a binary source within the L1689 cloud of Ophiuchus. Prestellar cores are strung out in elongated filamentary structures of dense gas and dust. Sensitive temperature measurements distinguish prestellar cores from unbound starless cores. Towards the Class 0 protostar source in IRAS 16293 detailed views of the principal components associated with low-mass star formation are discussed, from dense cloud filaments to rotating accretion disk, bipolar outflows, and larger circumbinary envelopes. IRAS 16293 shows warm/hot corino chemistry (warm carbon chain chemistry, WCCC), illustrating the conditions in which the chemical signatures involving COMs help us to define the structure of disks and envelopes on scales of ~100-1,000 AU. Both COMs and deuterated species, particularly the ratios of deuterated species to their hydrgenated counterparts, trace gas and dust temperatures and densities, and compositionally dependent gas–grain interactions, through comparisons with chemical modelling.

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L1689NIRAS16293protostellardeuteratedisotopologuesOphiuchuscorinosgas-grainmodellingWCCC
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Case Studies in Star Formation
A Molecular Astronomy Perspective
 , pp. 46 - 71
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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