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大质量恒星形成核心内流运动的特征:潜在的坍缩候选者

Signatures of inflow motion in cores of massive star formation: Potential collapse candidates

Yuefang Wu, Christian Henkel, Rui Xue, Xin Guan, Martin Miller

摘要:

利用IRAM 30米望远镜,对46个大质量恒星形成区进行了光学粗线和细线测绘。样品包括UC H{ \sc ii}前体和UC H{ \sc ii}区域。十七个源被发现显示“蓝色轮廓”,崩溃的核心预期的签名。在HCO $^+$ $J$ =1--0线中,蓝色轮廓超过红色轮廓的源的过量([ $N_{\rm blue}$ -- $N_{\rm red}$ ]/ $N_{\rm total}$)为29%,这是由随机波动引起的概率为0.6%。UC H{ \sc ii}区域显示出比UC H{ \sc ii}前体(17%)更高的过量(58%),表明在UC H{ \sc ii}相开始后材料仍在增生。在低质量恒星形成区,没有观察到作为演化状态函数的过量蓝色轮廓的类似差异。因此,如果证实了高质量恒星形成地点,这将指出低质量和高质量恒星形成之间的根本区别。可能的解释是热化不足,大质量早期核心外流的影响更大,大质量恒星周围的气体储量更大,或者低质量和高质量恒星形成之间的不同触发机制。

英文摘要:

Using the IRAM 30 m telescope, a mapping survey in optically thick and thin lines was performed towards 46 high mass star-forming regions. The sample includes UC H{\sc ii} precursors and UC H{\sc ii} regions. Seventeen sources are found to show "blue profiles", the expected signature of collapsing cores. The excess of sources with blue over red profiles ([$N_{\rm blue}$ -- $N_{\rm red}$]/$N_{\rm total}$) is 29% in the HCO$^+$ $J$=1--0 line, with a probability of 0.6% that this is caused by random fluctuations. UC H{\sc ii} regions show a higher excess (58%) than UC H{\sc ii} precursors (17%), indicating that material is still accreted after the onset of the UC H{\sc ii} phase. Similar differences in the excess of blue profiles as a function of evolutionary state are not observed in low mass star-forming regions. Thus, if confirmed for high mass star-forming sites, this would point at a fundamental difference between low- and high-mass star formation. Possible explanations are inadequate thermalization, stronger influence of outflows in massive early cores, larger gas reserves around massive stellar objects or different trigger mechanisms between low- and high- mass star formation.

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