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Initial Conditions for Star Formation in Clusters: Physical and Kinematical Structure of the Starless Core Oph A-N6

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  • We present high spatial (-1) resolution Submillimeter Array observations of the dense starless cluster core Oph A-N6 in the 1 mm dust continuum and the 3-2 line of N2H and N2D . The dust continuum observations reveal a compact source not seen in single-dish observations, of size ~1000 AU and mass 0.005-0.01 M &sun;. The combined line and single-dish observations reveal a core of size 3000 × 1400 AU elongated in a NW-SE direction, with almost no variation in either line width nor line center velocity across the map, and very small non-thermal motions. The deuterium fraction has a peak value of ~0.15 and is >0.05 over much

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  • 2012

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