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Water in star-forming regions with<i>Herschel</i>(WISH)

L. E. Kristensen, E. F. van Dishoeck, E. A. Bergin, R. Visser, U. A. Yíldíz, I. San José-García, J. K. Jørgensen, G. J. Herczeg, Doug Johnstone, S. F. Wampfler,

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2012 · 270 citations · 106 references

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Context. Water is a key tracer of dynamics and chemistry in low-mass star-forming regions, but spectrally resolved observations have so far been limited in sensitivity and angular resolution, and only data from the brightest low-mass protostars have been published.

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