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通过银河系中心分子气体的两条新的和显著的视线

Two New and Remarkable Sightlines through the Galactic Center's Molecular Gas

T. R. Geballe, T. Oka

摘要:

到目前为止,银河系中心的已知源具有足够平滑的光谱和足够的亮度,适合于星际气体的高分辨率红外吸收光谱,占据了狭窄的范围,从中心的热恒星群到中心以东约30 pc。为了更全面地表征r ~ 180 pc中心分子区的气体,有必要找到覆盖更宽纵向范围的额外的这样的源。我们正在使用斯皮策GLIMPSE和2 MASS星表确定适合光谱学的发光尘埃嵌入物体,经度为1.2度,纬度为0.1度。在这里,我们目前的光谱H3+和CO对两个这样的对象,一个位于140 PC西部的Sgr A*,和其他位于视线的Sgr B分子云复杂的85 PC到东部的Sgr A*。西边的视线穿过两个异常高的负速度的密集云,似乎也是膨胀分子环的一部分。朝向Sgr B的光谱显示至少有10个吸收成分,覆盖速度超过200 km/s,是迄今为止在星际H3+谱线中观测到的最大等效宽度;它们似乎提供了第一个近红外视图,进入恒星形成的温床。

英文摘要:

Until now the known sources in the Galactic center with sufficiently smooth spectra and of sufficient brightness to be suitable for high resolution infrared absorption spectroscopy of interstellar gas occupied a narrow range of longitudes, from the central cluster of hot stars to approximately 30 pc east of the center. In order to more fully characterize the gas within the r ~ 180 pc central molecular zone it is necessary to find additional such sources that cover a much wider longitudinal range. We are in the process of identifying luminous dust-embedded objects suitable for spectroscopy within 1.2 deg in longitude and 0.1 deg in latitude of Sgr A* using the Spitzer GLIMPSE and the 2MASS catalogues. Here we present spectra of H3+ and CO towards two such objects, one located 140 pc west of Sgr A*, and the other located on a line of sight to the Sgr B molecular cloud complex 85 pc to the east of Sgr A*. The sightline to the west passes through two dense clouds of unusually high negative velocities and also appears to sample a portion of the expanding molecular ring. The spectra toward Sgr B reveal at least ten absorption components covering over 200 km/s and by far the largest equivalent width ever observed in an interstellar H3+line; they appear to provide the first near-infrared view into that hotbed of star formation.

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