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恒星形成区VLA的塞曼观测

VLA OH Zeeman Observations of the star forming region S88B

A. P. Sarma, C. L. Brogan, T. L. Bourke, M. Eftimova, T. H. Troland

摘要:

我们目前的观察塞曼效应的OH热吸收主线在1665和1667兆赫采取的超大阵列(VLA)对恒星形成区S88 B。朝向该源的OH吸收曲线是复杂的,并且包含朝向多个位置的若干混合组分。几乎所有的OH吸收气体都位于S88 B的东部,朝向紧凑连续谱源S88 B-2和扩展连续谱源S88 B-1的东部。1665/1667 MHz OH线强度的比率表明气体可能是高度聚集的,与文献中的其他分子发射线观测结果一致。S88-B似乎呈现出与著名的恒星形成区M17相似的几何形状,即从电离气体到分子气体的边缘向东发展。探测到的磁场似乎反映了这种向东的过渡;我们探测到的视线磁场范围为90-400 μG,磁场的最低值位于S88 B-1连续峰的西南部,最高值位于其东北部。我们使用探测到的磁场,通过多种方法评估S88 B中磁场的重要性;我们计算了热压力与磁压力的比值,我们计算了完全支持云抵抗自重所需的临界场,并将其与观测到的场进行比较,我们计算了质量与磁通量的比值。所有这些方法都表明,S88 B的磁场是动力学上重要的,应该提供一个重要的支持源,以对抗重力。此外,磁能密度与湍流能量密度近似均分,再次指出磁场在该区域的重要性。

英文摘要:

We present observations of the Zeeman effect in OH thermal absorption main lines at 1665 and 1667 MHz taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) toward the star forming region S88B. The OH absorption profiles toward this source are complicated, and contain several blended components toward a number of positions. Almost all of the OH absorbing gas is located in the eastern parts of S88B, toward the compact continuum source S88B-2 and the eastern parts of the extended continuum source S88B-1. The ratio of 1665/1667 MHz OH line intensities indicates the gas is likely highly clumped, in agreement with other molecular emission line observations in the literature. S88-B appears to present a similar geometry to the well-known star forming region M17, in that there is an edge-on eastward progression from ionized to molecular gas. The detected magnetic fields appear to mirror this eastward transition; we detected line-of-sight magnetic fields ranging from 90-400 μG, with the lowest values of the field to the southwest of the S88B-1 continuum peak, and the highest values to its northeast. We used the detected fields to assess the importance of the magnetic field in S88B by a number of methods; we calculated the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressures, we calculated the critical field necessary to completely support the cloud against self-gravity and compared it to the observed field, and we calculated the ratio of mass to magnetic flux in terms of the critical value of this parameter. All these methods indicated that the magnetic field in S88B is dynamically significant, and should provide an important source of support against gravity. Moreover, the magnetic energy density is in approximate equipartition with the turbulent energy density, again pointing to the importance of the magnetic field in this region.

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