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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 846, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8262
Keywords
galaxies: star formation; ISM: clouds; ISM: jets and outflows; ISM: structure; stars: formation; stars: protostars
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- NASA [NNX14AG96G]
- Russian Ministry of Education and Science [3.5602.2017]
- University of Oklahoma
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [639.041.439]
- European Research Council (ERC) [PALs 320620]
- Smithsonian Institution
- Academia Sinica
- NASA [NNX14AG96G, 683914] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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We present new Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations of CO(2-1) outflows toward young, embedded protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud as part of the Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and their Evolution with the SMA (MASSES) survey. For 57 Perseus protostars, we characterize the orientation of the outflow angles and compare them with the orientation of the local filaments as derived from Herschel observations. We find that the relative angles between outflows and filaments are inconsistent with purely parallel or purely perpendicular distributions. Instead, the observed distribution of outflow-filament angles are more consistent with either randomly aligned angles or a mix of projected parallel and perpendicular angles. A mix of parallel and perpendicular angles requires perpendicular alignment to be more common by a factor of similar to 3. Our results show that the observed distributions probably hold regardless of the protostar's multiplicity, age, or the host core's opacity. These observations indicate that the angular momentum axis of a protostar may be independent of the large-scale structure. We discuss the significance of independent protostellar rotation axes in the general picture of filament-based star formation.
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