VLA ammonia observations of L1287 - Analysis of the Guitar core and two filaments

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Table 2

Blue and red filament stability analysis.

	c_s	σ_tot ^(a)	M_lin ^(b)	M_lin,crit ^(c)
Fil.	(km s⁻¹)	(km s⁻¹)	(M_⊙ pc⁻¹)	(M_⊙ pc⁻¹)	α_v ^(d)
Blue	0.28	0.30	61.2	41.8	0.7
Red	0.29	0.33	53.0	50.2	0.9

Notes. ^(a) Total velocity dispersion of the interstellar gas (see text). ^(b)Average value for the whole filament of the mass per unit length M_lin. ^(c) Critical value of mass per unit length for thermal and non-thermal support, . ^(d) Virial factor, α_v = M_lin,crit∕M_lin.

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