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.
A feedback-driven bubble G24.136+00.436: a possible site of triggered star formation
我们提出了一个多波长的红外气泡G24.136+00.436的研究。利用紫金山天文台13.7米望远镜对$^{12}$ CO、$^{13}$ CO和C $^{18}$ O进行了J=1-0观测。在气泡的东南部发现了速度为94.8 km/s的分子气体$^{-1}$,形成总质量为$\sim2\times10^{4}$ $M_{\odot}$的壳。它很可能是在泡沫膨胀期间组装的。膨胀的外壳由六个致密的核组成。它们的密度(少量$10^{3}$ cm $^{-3}$)和质量(少量$10^{3}$ $M_{\odot}$)的特征加上宽的谱线宽度($>$ 2.5 km s $^{-1}$)表明它们是有希望形成高质量恒星或星团的场所。这可以通过在核心A和E中检测到致密HII区域来进一步巩固。基于\emph{Spitzer}和UKIDSS数据,我们初步确定并分类了63个候选YSO。它们主要分布在分子气体排放强烈的区域,这表明特别是在壳层中有活跃的恒星形成。气泡内的HII区域主要被一颗动力学年龄为$\sim$ 160万年的$\sim$ O 8V恒星电离。候选YSO和次级恒星形成的数量增加,以及所涉及的时间尺度,表明可能触发恒星形成的场景,由“收集和崩溃”过程表示。