IRAS 16293 -2422
IRAS 16293 -2422 (this name indicates the source coordinates)
is a system of two young proto-stars, each of about 0.5 times the
mass of our sun. The system is still in a very early stage of its
evolution, and is therefore still embedded in the molecular cloud that
it is forming from.
We have studied this molecular material through its (sub)millimeter emission
using the
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) and the
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT),
both located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
This is work I do together with
Ewine F. van Dishoeck
(my thesis supervisor) in Leiden,
and Geoff Blake and Todd Groesbeck at the
Caltech Division of Geology and Planetary
Sciences.
References :
Blake, G.A., Van Dishoeck, E.F., Jansen, D.J., Groesbeck, T.D.,
Mundy, L.G., 1994, ApJ 428, 680
Van Dishoeck, E.F., Blake, G.A., Jansen, D.J., Groesbeck, T.D.,
1995, ApJ, 447, 760