Explosive Molecular Outflows

arXiv:2607.10452 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-11 · Read on arXiv

Luis A. Zapata

IRyA-UNAM

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-11

Comments: Invited review article for "The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review"

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 64× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• James Webb Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
• APEX — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Orion Molecular Cloud — 2× in this paper
• Very Large Array — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entrainment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mass Segregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Modeling the accretion disk around the high-mass protostar GGD 27-MM1
• A Single Circumstellar Disk in the SVS 13 Close Binary System
• Radio Jets from Young Stellar Objects
• HH 80/81: Structure and Kinematics of the Fastest Protostellar Outflow
• The Birth of High Mass Stars: Accretion and/or Mergers?
• Explosive Outflows Powered by the Decay of Non-Hierarchical Multiple Systems of Massive Stars: Orion BN/KL
• The Orion Fingers: Near-IR Adaptive Optics Imaging of an Explosive Protostellar Outflow
• The ALMA View of the OMC1 Explosion in Orion
• The Orion Protostellar Explosion and Runaway Stars Revisited: Stellar Masses, Disk Retention, and an Outflow from BN
• Supersonic Expansion of the Bipolar Hii Region Sh2-106: A 3,500 Year-Old Explosion?
• Formation of massive stars by growing accretion rate
• Extended warm gas in Orion KL as probed by methyl cyanide
• Accretion disks in luminous young stellar objects
• Infall of gas as the formation mechanism of stars up to 20 times more massive than the Sun
• Accelerating infall and rotational spin-up in the hot molecular core G31.41+0.31
• Massive molecular outflows
• Submm line imaging of Orion-KL with the Submillimeter Array
• The Formation of Massive Stars
• Fragmentation, infall, and outflow around the showcase massive protostar NGC7538 IRS1 at 500 AU resolution
• Star formation from low to high mass: A comparative view

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