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ATLASGAL-APEX望远镜在870微米的银河系大面积调查

ATLASGAL - The APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy at 870 microns

F. Schuller, K. M. Menten, Y. Contreras, F. Wyrowski, P. Schilke, L. Bronfman, T. Henning, C. M. Walmsley, H. Beuther, S. Bontemps, R. Cesaroni, L. Deharveng, G… 展开作者

F. Schuller, K. M. Menten, Y. Contreras, F. Wyrowski, P. Schilke, L. Bronfman, T. Henning, C. M. Walmsley, H. Beuther, S. Bontemps, R. Cesaroni, L. Deharveng, G. Garay, F. Herpin, B. Lefloch, H. Linz, D. Mardones, V. Minier, S. Molinari, F. Motte, L. -A. Nyman, V. Reveret, C. Risacher, D. Russeil, N. Schneider, L. Testi, T. Troost, T. Vasyunina, M. Wienen, A. Zavagno, A. Kovacs, E. Kreysa, G. Siringo, A. Weiss

摘要:

研究星际尘埃的连续辐射对于定位和表征星际介质中密度最高的区域至关重要。特别是,大质量恒星形成的早期阶段仍然知之甚少。我们的目标是建立一个大规模的、系统的银河系中大规模前恒星和原恒星团块的数据库,以了解恒星形成是如何以及在什么条件下发生的。一个特征良好的恒星形成点样本将提供一个进化序列和高质量恒星形成团块的质量函数。在亚毫米波段的系统测量也代表了Herschel和ALMA的准备工作。APEX望远镜位于观测银河系内部的理想位置。大型APEX测辐射热计相机(LABOCA)是一个295单元测辐射热计阵列,观测波长为870微米,光束尺寸为19”。利用其大视场(11.4 ')和出色的灵敏度,我们开始了对银河系平面的无偏调查,噪音水平为50-70 mJy/光束:APEX望远镜大面积银河系调查(ATLASGAL)。作为第一步,我们覆盖了95平方米。°的这些数据揭示了6000个紧凑的源,亮度超过0.25焦耳,以及扩展的结构,其中许多是无源的。大约三分之二的致密源没有明亮的红外对应物,其中一些可能对应于(大质量)原恒星或原星团的前身。其他紧凑型源拥有热核心,紧凑的HII区域或年轻的嵌入式集群。假设一个典型的距离为5千秒差距,大多数源是小于1秒差距的团块,质量从几个10到几个100兆太阳。在这篇介绍性的论文中,我们展示了这些正在进行的观察的初步结果,并讨论了调查的观点。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) Studying continuum emission from interstellar dust is essential to locating and characterizing the highest density regions in the interstellar medium. In particular, the early stages of massive star formation remain poorly understood. Our goal is to produce a large-scale, systematic database of massive pre- and proto-stellar clumps in the Galaxy, to understand how and under what conditions star formation takes place. A well characterized sample of star-forming sites will deliver an evolutionary sequence and a mass function of high-mass, star-forming clumps. This systematic survey at submm wavelengths also represents a preparatory work for Herschel and ALMA. The APEX telescope is ideally located to observe the inner Milky Way. The Large APEX Bolometer Camera (LABOCA) is a 295-element bolometer array observing at 870 microns, with a beam size of 19". Taking advantage of its large field of view (11.4') and excellent sensitivity, we started an unbiased survey of the Galactic Plane, with a noise level of 50-70 mJy/beam: the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). As a first step, we covered 95 sq. deg. These data reveal 6000 compact sources brighter than 0.25 Jy, as well as extended structures, many of them filamentary. About two thirds of the compact sources have no bright infrared counterpart, and some of them are likely to correspond to the precursors of (high-mass) proto-stars or proto-clusters. Other compact sources harbor hot cores, compact HII regions or young embedded clusters. Assuming a typical distance of 5 kpc, most sources are clumps smaller than 1 pc with masses from a few 10 to a few 100 M_sun. In this introductory paper, we show preliminary results from these ongoing observations, and discuss the perspectives of the survey.

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