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NATURE
卷 466, 期 7309, 页码 947-949出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature09289
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Massive stars influence their parental molecular cloud, and it has long been suspected that the development of hydrodynamical instabilities can compress or fragment the cloud(1,2). Identifying such instabilities has proved difficult. It has been suggested that elongated structures (such as the 'pillars of creation'(3)) and other shapes arise because of instabilities(4,5), but alternative explanations are available(6,7). One key signature of an instability is a wave-like structure in the gas, which has hitherto not been seen. Here we report the presence of 'waves' at the surface of the Orion molecular cloud near where massive stars are forming. The waves seem to be a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability that arises during the expansion of the nebula as gas heated and ionized by massive stars is blown over pre-existing molecular gas.
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