hot corino

Noun

hot corino (plural hot corinos)

1. The warm, dense inner region of the envelope of young stellar objects where complex organic molecules are located.
   • The definition of “hot core” used for massive protostars implies the presence of a relatively large amount of warm and dense gas[…] In order to make clear that hot cores of low- and high-mass protostars are, however, substantially different in the amount of material involved, we use hereafter the...2004, S[andrine]. Bottinelli, C[ecilia]. Ceccarelli, B. Lefloch, J.P. Williams, A. Castets, E. Caux, S. Cazaux, S. Maret, B. Parise, A.G.G.M. Tielens, “Complex molecules in the hot core of the...
   • Discussion
     Rawlings: Concerning the so-called “hot corinos”: these objects are barely resolvable, so what evidence is there that they are the low-mass analogues of hot cores, rather than – say – outflow interfaces?2006, Cecilia Ceccarelli, quoting Jonathan Rawlings, “Observations of low-mass protostars: Cold envelopes and hot corinos”, in Dariusz C. Lis, Geoffrey A. Blake, Eric Herbst, editors, Astrochemistry...