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W51A附近双壳层中的触发星形成

Triggered Star Formation in a Double Shell near W51A

Miju Kang, John H. Bieging, Craig A. Kulesa, Youngung Lee

摘要:

我们目前的海因里希赫兹望远镜CO观测的壳层结构附近的活跃的恒星形成复合体W51A的恒星形成过程中引发的HII区域的膨胀。CO观测结果证实,在斯皮策IRAC图像中检测到的外壳上收集了致密的分子物质。CO的分布表明,壳向西北方向的低密度区吹出。壳层周围的总氢柱密度高到足以形成新的恒星。我们发现两个CO冷凝具有相同的中心速度为59公里/秒的东部和北部沿边缘的IRAC壳。我们确定了两个YSO在早期的进化阶段(阶段0/I)内的densitive-molecular缩合。从CO运动学,我们发现,HII区目前正在扩大的速度为3.4公里/秒,这意味着壳的扩张年龄为~1百万年。这一时间尺度与HII区域扩张的数值模拟结果非常一致(Hosokawa et al. 2006)。我们的结论是,在壳的边界上的恒星形成是由HII区域的扩张触发的。

英文摘要:

We present Heinrich Hertz Telescope CO observations of the shell structure near the active star-forming complex W51A to investigate the process of star formation triggered by the expansion of an HII region. The CO observations confirm that dense molecular material has been collected along the shell detected in Spitzer IRAC images. The CO distribution shows that the shell is blown out toward a lower density region to the northwest. Total hydrogen column density around the shell is high enough to form new stars. We find two CO condensations with the same central velocity of 59 km/s to the east and north along the edge of the IRAC shell. We identify two YSOs in early evolutionary stages (Stage 0/I) within the densest molecular condensation. From the CO kinematics, we find that the HII region is currently expanding with a velocity of 3.4 km/s, implying that the shell's expansion age is ~1 Myr. This timescale is in good agreement with numerical simulations of the expansion of the HII region (Hosokawa et al. 2006). We conclude that the star formation on the border of the shell is triggered by the expansion of the HII region.

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