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大质量恒星形成区NGC 2024的分子环境:多重CO跃迁分析

The molecular environment of the massive star forming region NGC 2024: Multi CO transition analysis

M. Emprechtinger, M. C. Wiedner, R. Simon, G. Wieching, N. H. Volgenau, F. Bielau, U. U. Graf, R. Guesten, C. E. Honingh, K. Jacobs, D. Rabanus, J. Stutzki, F. Wyrowski

摘要:

NGC 2024是一个大质量恒星形成的地点,具有复杂的内部结构,由年轻恒星,外流和恒星风加热造成。这些复杂的云结构导致复杂的发射线形状。本文的目的是表明,在NGC 2024中的12个CO线的复杂的线形可以解释一致的模型,其温度和速度结构的基础上建立的PDR和水泡模型的情况下。我们提出了7个CO线的速度分辨光谱,范围从J=3到J=13,我们结合这些数据与CO高频数据从ISO卫星。我们发现,大部分的分子云与NGC 2024由温暖(75 K)和致密(9 e5 cm-3)的气体。一个额外的热(~ 300 K)的组件,位于HII区和分子云的界面,需要解释的高J CO线的发射。深吸收缺口表明,非常冷的材料(20 K)存在于前面的温暖的材料,太。与PDR模型预测的温度和柱密度结构一致,结合Blister模型的速度结构,适当地描述了观测到的这个大质量恒星形成区域的发射线轮廓。NGC 2024的这个案例研究表明,通过对这些复杂区域的物理见解和仔细的建模,CO的多线观测可以用来获得大质量恒星形成区域的详细物理条件。

英文摘要:

NGC 2024, a sites of massive star formation, have complex internal structures caused by cal heating by young stars, outflows, and stellar winds. These complex cloud structures lead to intricate emission line shapes. The goal of this paper is to show that the complex line shapes of 12 CO lines in NGC 2024 can be explained consistently with a model, whose temperature and velocity structure are based on the well-established scenario of a PDR and the Blister model. We present velocity-resolved spectra of seven CO lines ranging from J=3 to J=13, and we combined these data with CO high-frequency data from the ISO satellite. We find that the bulk of the molecular cloud associated with NGC 2024 consists of warm (75 K) and dense (9e5 cm-3) gas. An additional hot (~ 300 K) component, located at the interface of the HII region and the molecular cloud, is needed to explain the emission of the high-J CO lines. Deep absorption notches indicate that very cold material (20 K) exists in front of the warm material, too. A temperature and column density structure consistent with those predicted by PDR models, combined with the velocity structure of a Blister model, appropriately describes the observed emission line profiles of this massive star forming region. This case study of NGC 2024 shows that, with physical insights into these complex regions and careful modeling, multi-line observations of CO can be used to derive detailed physical conditions in massive star forming regions.

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