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44 GHz Ⅰ类甲醇脉泽线塞曼效应的发现

Discovery of the Zeeman Effect in the 44 GHz Class I methanol maser line

A. P. Sarma, E. Momjian

摘要:

本文报道了在44 GHz Ⅰ类甲醇脉泽谱线上发现的塞曼效应。这些观测是用EVLA的22个天线对OMC-2中的恒星形成区进行的。基于我们采用的塞曼分裂因子z = 1.0 Hz/mG,我们检测到朝向该源的18.4 +/- 1.1 mG的视线磁场。由于这种44 GHz的甲醇脉泽产生于恒星形成区域的流出物中的冲击,我们可以将我们对冲击后磁场的测量与由物质追踪冲击前区域所指示的场强相关联,从而表征大尺度磁场。此外,由于I类脉泽跟踪区域比II类脉泽更远离恒星形成核心,并且可能更早,因此在6.7 GHz II类和36 GHz及44 GHz I类甲醇脉泽线中检测到的磁场一起提供了提供更完整的磁场图像的潜力。这促使进一步的观察,在高角分辨率,以找到第一类和第二类脉泽之间的位置关系,并在每个类别中的各种频率的脉泽。特别是,甲醇脉泽广泛分布在高质量和中等质量恒星形成区,我们的发现提供了一种新的方法来研究这些地区的磁场,通过观察小的物理尺度,是无法访问的任何其他线路。

英文摘要:

We report the discovery of the Zeeman effect in the 44 GHz Class I methanol maser line. The observations were carried out with 22 antennas of the EVLA toward a star forming region in OMC-2. Based on our adopted Zeeman splitting factor of z = 1.0 Hz/mG, we detect a line of sight magnetic field of 18.4 +/- 1.1 mG toward this source. Since such 44 GHz methanol masers arise from shocks in the outflows of star forming regions, we can relate our measurement of the post-shock magnetic field to field strengths indicated by species tracing pre-shock regions, and thus characterize the large scale magnetic field. Moreover, since Class I masers trace regions more remote from the star forming core than Class II masers, and possibly earlier phases, magnetic fields detected in 6.7 GHz Class II and 36 GHz and 44 GHz Class I methanol maser lines together offer the potential of providing a more complete picture of the magnetic field. This motivates further observations at high angular resolution to find the positional relationships between Class I and Class II masers, and masers at various frequencies within each category. In particular, methanol masers are widespread in high- as well as intermediate-mass star forming regions, and our discovery provides a new method of studying the magnetic field in such regions, by observing small physical scales that are not accessible by any other lines.

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