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arXiv 0912.1852astro-ph.GA
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分子环与恒星形成云的厚度

Molecular Rings and the Thickness of Star-Forming Clouds

Christopher N. Beaumont, Jonathan P. Williams

摘要:

来自大质量恒星的恒星风和辐射清除了星际介质中的大空洞。这些被称为气泡的物质会撞击周围的分子云,并可能影响其中恒星的形成。在这里,我们提出了JCMT观测的J=3-2线的CO在43个气泡确定与斯皮策太空望远镜的观测。这些光谱数据揭示了气泡的三维结构。特别是,我们表明,冷气体位于一个环,而不是一个球体,周围的气泡表明,父母的分子云是扁平的几个秒差距的典型厚度。我们还映射了7个气泡在J=4-3线的HCO+和发现,推断的柱密度从CO和HCO+线强度低于必要的“收集和崩溃”模型的诱导恒星形成。我们假设扁平的分子云不会被膨胀的冲击波阵面大大压缩,这可能会阻碍新恒星的形成。

英文摘要:

The winds and radiation from massive stars clear out large cavities in the interstellar medium. These bubbles, as they have been called, impact their surrounding molecular clouds and may influence the formation of stars therein. Here we present JCMT observations of the J=3-2 line of CO in 43 bubbles identified with Spitzer Space Telescope observations. These spectroscopic data reveal the three-dimensional structure of the bubbles. In particular, we show that the cold gas lies in a ring, not a sphere, around the bubbles indicating that the parent molecular clouds are flattened with a typical thickness of a few parsecs. We also mapped 7 bubbles in the J=4-3 line of HCO+ and find that the column densities inferred from the CO and HCO+ line intensities are below that necessary for "collect and collapse" models of induced star formation. We hypothesize that the flattened molecular clouds are not greatly compressed by expanding shock fronts, which may hinder the formation of new stars.

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