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银河系旋臂和旋臂间区域的恒星形成

Star formation in Galactic spiral arms and the inter-arm regions

D. J. Eden, T. J. T. Moore, L. K. Morgan, M. A. Thompson, J. S. Urquhart

摘要:

通过银道面l = 37.83度和l = 42.50度之间的视线允许将银河环巡天分子云分成落入旋臂和位于旋臂间区域的分子云。通过将这些云的位置和速度与Bolocam银河平面调查在mm连续体中检测到的密集团块相匹配,我们能够寻找团块形成效率(CFE)的变化,团块与云质量的比率,与银河系环境。我们没有发现任何证据表明,沿这条视线的臂间和螺旋臂区域之间的CFE有任何差异。这进一步证明,在银河系中心区域之外,银河系的大尺度结构在改变分子云内致密的、潜在的恒星形成结构方面几乎没有发挥作用。

英文摘要:

The line of sight through the Galactic Plane between longitudes l = 37.83 degr and l = 42.50 degr allows for the separation of Galactic Ring Survey molecular clouds into those that fall within the spiral arms and those located in the inter-arm regions. By matching these clouds in both position and velocity with dense clumps detected in the mm continuum by the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey, we are able to look for changes in the clump formation efficiency (CFE), the ratio of clump-to-cloud mass, with Galactic environment. We find no evidence of any difference in the CFE between the inter-arm and spiral-arm regions along this line of sight. This is further evidence that, outside the Galactic Centre region, the large-scale structures of the Galaxy play little part in changing the dense, potentially star-forming structures within molecular clouds.

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