  We discuss wide-field near-IR imaging of the NGC1333, L1448, L1455 and B1
star forming regions in Perseus. The observations have been extracted from a
much larger narrow-band imaging survey of the Taurus-Auriga-Perseus complex.
These H2 2.12 micron observations are complemented by broad-band K imaging,
mid-IR imaging and photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and published
submillimetre CO J=3-2 maps of high-velocity molecular outflows. We detect and
label 85 H2 features and associate these with 26 molecular outflows. Three are
parsec-scale flows, with a mean flow lobe length exceeding 11.5 arcmin. 37
(44%) of the detected H2 features are associated with a known Herbig-Haro
object, while 72 (46%) of catalogued HH objects are detected in H2 emission.
Embedded Spitzer sources are identified for all but two of the 26 molecular
outflows. These candidate outflow sources all have high near-to-mid-IR spectral
indices (mean value of alpha ~ 1.4) as well as red IRAC 3.6-4.5 micron and
IRAC/MIPS 4.5-24.0 micron colours: 80% have [3.6]-[4.5] > 1.0 and [4.5]-[24] >
1.5. These criteria - high alpha and red [4.5]-[24] and [3.6]-[4.5] colours -
are powerful discriminants when searching for molecular outflow sources.
However, we find no correlation between alpha and flow length or opening angle,
and the outflows appear randomly orientated in each region. The more massive
clouds are associated with a greater number of outflows, which suggests that
the star formation efficiency is roughly the same in each region.
