A DOUBLE OUTFLOW FROM A DEEPLY EMBEDDED SOURCE IN CEPHEUS

We report near-infrared and submillimeter line and continuum measureme nts toward the embedded source IRAS 23011 + 6126 in the Cepheus E mole cular cloud. The source has a luminosity of 70 +/- 10 L. and is not de tected in the 2 mu m continuum. Its spectral energy distribution is ch aracterized by a very low bolometric temperature (T-bol = 60 K), placi ng it in the class 0 category. The source is associated with a relativ ely compact (0.18 pc) molecular cloud core with a mass of 8 M.. Also a ssociated with this source are four lobes of outflowing molecular gas. These lobes can easily be grouped into two well-collimated bipolar ou tflow structures with position angles differing by 52 degrees. The sma ll-scale outflow structure is associated with strong line emission fro m vibrationally excited molecular hydrogen with line ratios consistent with C shocks, while the large-scale outflow structure shows no assoc iated molecular hydrogen emission. If one source is responsible for bo th hows, then the outflow mechanism must be both temporally and angula rly variable. An alternate possibility is that the observed luminosity and outflow structures are generated by two sources, separated by les s than 10(4) AU on the sky. Both of these sources must be very deeply embedded, and presumably quite young.