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三叠纪星云中的分子云M20 ;云-云碰撞触发第一代恒星形成的可能证据

Molecular clouds in the Trifid nebula M20; Possible evidence for a cloud-cloud collision in triggering the formation of the first generation stars

K. Torii, R. Enokiya, H. Sano, S. Yoshiike, N. Hanakoka, A. Ohama, N. Furukawa, J. R. Dawson, N. Moribe, K. Oishi, Y. Nakashima, T. Okuda, H. Yamamoto A. Kawamu… 展开作者

K. Torii, R. Enokiya, H. Sano, S. Yoshiike, N. Hanakoka, A. Ohama, N. Furukawa, J. R. Dawson, N. Moribe, K. Oishi, Y. Nakashima, T. Okuda, H. Yamamoto A. Kawamura, N. Mizuno, H. Maezawa, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui

摘要:

本文对12 CO和13 CO的J=2-1和J=1-0跃迁进行了大尺度研究。M20主要被O7.5恒星HD 164492电离。这项研究表明,有两个分子组分以不同的速度朝着M20中心达到峰值,并且它们的温度-由LVG分析得出的30-50 K-显着高于其周围的10 K。我们认为这两个星云是M20中第一代恒星的母星云。每个云的质量估计为~10^3 Msun,它们的分离速度为~8 km/s,超过~1-2 pc。我们发现M20中恒星和分子气体的总质量小于~3.2 \times 103 Msun,这对于引力束缚系统来说太小了。我们认为,第一代恒星的形成,包括主要的电离O7.5 s焦油,是由两个云之间的碰撞在短时间尺度的~1万年,第二个例子旁边Westerlund 2,其中一个超级星团可能已经形成,由于云-云碰撞触发。

英文摘要:

A large-scale study of the molecular clouds toward the Trifid nebula, M20, has been made in the J=2-1 and J=1-0 transitions of 12CO and 13CO. M20 is ionized predominantly by an O7.5 star HD164492. The study has revealed that there are two molecular components at separate velocities peaked toward the center of M20 and that their temperatures - 30-50 K as derived by an LVG analysis - are significantly higher than the 10 K of their surroundings. We identify that the two clouds as the parent clouds of the first generation stars in M20. The mass of each cloud is estimated to be ~10^3 Msun and their separation velocity is ~8 km/s over ~1-2 pc. We find the total mass of stars and molecular gas in M20 is less than ~3.2 \times 103 Msun, which is too small by an order of magnitude to gravitationally bind the system. We argue that the formation of the first generation stars, including the main ionizing O7.5 s tar, was triggered by the collision between the two clouds in a short time scale of ~1 Myrs, a second example alongside Westerlund 2, where a super star cluster may have been formed due to cloud-cloud collision triggering.

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