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核盘分子气体的Cosmic-Ray加热:低恒星形成效率

Cosmic-Ray Heating of Molecular Gas in the Nuclear Disk: Low Star Formation Efficiency

F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle, S. Roy

摘要:

了解我们银河系的核盘中发生的过程本身就很有趣,作为银河系的一部分,但也因为它是最近的星系核。二十多年前,人们认识到,与银河系盘中的局部云相比,内部几百秒差距内的气体温度较高的普遍现象。这是最不为人所知的巨大分子云的特征之一,在银河系中心的内部几度,气体温度比尘埃温度高得多。我们提出,宇宙射线电子的增强通量,最近的一些研究证明,是负责直接加热的气体云在核盘,提高分子气体的温度($\sim$ 75 K)以上的尘埃温度($\sim$ 20 K)。此外,我们报告的非热射电发射的Sgr B2-F的低频GMRT和VLA观测的基础上的检测。由于非热电子在恒星形成点的碰撞而产生的较高的电离分数和热能对减缓我们星系核盘和星系核中的恒星形成具有重要意义。

英文摘要:

Understanding the processes occurring in the nuclear disk of our Galaxy is interesting in its own right, as part of the Milky Way Galaxy, but also because it is the closest galactic nucleus. It has been more than two decades since it was recognized that the general phenomenon of higher gas temperature in the inner few hundred parsecs by comparison with local clouds in the disk of the Galaxy. This is one of the least understood characteristics of giant molecular clouds having a much higher gas temperature than dust temperature in the inner few degrees of the Galactic center. We propose that an enhanced flux of cosmic-ray electrons, as evidenced recently by a number of studies, are responsible for directly heating the gas clouds in the nuclear disk, elevating the temperature of molecular gas ($\sim$ 75K) above the dust temperature ($\sim$ 20K). In addition we report the detection of nonthermal radio emission from Sgr B2-F based on low-frequency GMRT and VLA observations. The higher ionization fraction and thermal energy due to the impact of nonthermal electrons in star forming sites have important implications in slowing down star formation in the nuclear disk of our galaxy and nuclei of galaxies.

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