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大规模红外暗云周围的物质库:近红外尘埃消光的观点

Mass reservoirs surrounding massive infrared dark clouds: A view by near-infrared dust extinction

J. Kainulainen, J. Alves, H. Beuther, T. Henning, F. Schuller

摘要:

背景:红外暗云(IRDC)是大质量恒星的祖先。对IRDC的母体分子云知之甚少。目的:我们证明了近红外(NIR)尘埃消光映射的可行性,在跟踪IRDC的父母分子云的距离D = 2.5 - 8千秒差距。研究方法:我们推导出近红外消光图10个突出的IRDC复杂的颜色过剩映射技术和近红外数据从UKIDSS/银河系平面调查。我们将得到的地图与13 CO发射线数据、8 μm尘埃不透明度数据和毫米尘埃发射数据进行了比较。我们通过比较观测到的近红外源密度的贝桑松恒星分布模型,并比较它们的运动学距离估计云的距离。结果:近红外消光图提供了IRDC复合物在Av = 2 - 40 mag动力学范围内的视图,空间分辨率为30”。近红外消光数据与13 CO数据相关性很好,并探测了类似的气体成分,但也延伸到更高的柱密度。近红外数据揭示了密集气体周围大量的延伸结构,这些结构由8 μm阴影特征和亚毫米尘埃排放所追踪,表明云的质量通常比这些示踪剂所追踪的质量多10倍以上。我们样本中的IRDC复合体含有相对大量的高柱密度物质,它们的累积柱密度分布类似于附近活跃的恒星形成云,如猎户座,而不是像加利福尼亚州那样不太活跃的云。结论:近红外尘埃消光数据提供了一个新的强有力的工具,探测的质量分布的父母的分子云的IRDC的距离D = 8千秒差距。这鼓励对内陆发展中国家进行更深入的近红外观测,因为通过专门的观测可以直接提高数据的灵敏度和分辨率。

英文摘要:

Context: Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs) harbor progenitors of high-mass stars. Little is known of the parental molecular clouds of the IRDCs. Aims: We demonstrate the feasibility of the near-infrared (NIR) dust extinction mapping in tracing the parental molecular clouds of IRDCs at the distances of D = 2.5 - 8 kpc. Methods: We derive NIR extinction maps for 10 prominent IRDC complexes using a color-excess mapping technique and NIR data from the UKIDSS/Galactic Plane Survey. We compare the resulting maps to the 13CO emission line data, to the 8 μm dust opacity data, and to the millimeter dust emission data. We derive distances for the clouds by comparing the observed NIR source densities to the Besancon stellar distribution model and compare them to the kinematic distance estimates. Results: The NIR extinction maps provide a view to the IRDC complexes over the dynamical range of Av = 2 - 40 mag, in spatial resolution of 30". The NIR extinction data correlate well with the 13CO data and probe a similar gas component, but also extend to higher column densities. The NIR data reveal a wealth of extended structures surrounding the dense gas traced by the 8 μm shadowing features and sub-mm dust emission, showing that the clouds contain typically > 10 times more mass than traced by those tracers. The IRDC complexes of our sample contain relatively high amount of high-column density material, and their cumulative column density distributions resemble active nearby star-forming clouds like Orion rather than less active clouds like California. Conclusions: NIR dust extinction data provide a new powerful tool to probe the mass distribution of the parental molecular clouds of IRDCs up to the distances of D = 8 kpc. This encourages for deeper NIR observations of IRDCs, because the sensitivity and resolution of the data can be directly enhanced with dedicated observations.

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