Abstract
A new instrument, GriF, has been used on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to record spatially and velocity resolved images, in the H2v= 1-0 S(1) line in the K-band, of a 1 0 1 0 field in the core of the Orion Molecular Cloud, OMC1. Using the PUEO adaptive optics system combined with Fabry-Perot interferometry, diraction limited spatial resolution of 0: 00 15 and velocity discrimination of 1k ms 1 has been achieved. These data yield graphic images of shocks in OMC1, presenting a level of detail which has not previously been attained. Observed structures suggest that a significant fraction of the regions strongly emitting in H2 do so through local, internal shocks, associated with star formation within the clumps of gas involved. Thus the core of OMC1 is revealed for the first time as a region which contains a number of developed protostars.
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