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炎热地区的冷尘

Cold Dust in Hot Regions

Gopika Sreenilayam, Michel Fich, Peter Ade, Dan Bintley, Ed Chapin, Antonio Chrysostomou, James S. Dunlop, Andy Gibb, Jane S. Greaves, Mark Halpern, Wayne S. Ho… 展开作者

Gopika Sreenilayam, Michel Fich, Peter Ade, Dan Bintley, Ed Chapin, Antonio Chrysostomou, James S. Dunlop, Andy Gibb, Jane S. Greaves, Mark Halpern, Wayne S. Holland, Rob Ivison, Tim Jenness, Ian Robson, Douglas Scott

摘要:

我们用詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦望远镜(JCMT)上的SCUBA-2相机绘制了五个大质量恒星形成区。温度和柱密度图从SCUBA-2 450和850 $μ$ m图像中获得。我们发现的大多数致密团块的中心温度低于20 K,有些冷到8 K,这表明它们由于嵌入的原恒星的存在而没有内部加热。这是令人惊讶的,因为在从这些图像推断的高密度和如此低的温度下,这些团块应该是不稳定的,坍缩形成恒星并产生内部加热。在团块中心的柱密度超过10 $^{23}$ cm $^{-2}$,并且对于$β$ = 1.5-2.5,导出的峰值视觉消光值为25-500 mag,表明高度不透明的中心。观测到的云气质量范围从$\sim$ 10到10 $^{3}$ M $_{\odot}$。团块的外部区域遵循$r^{-2.36\pm0.35}$密度分布,并且通常在10 $^{4}$ AU之外观察到这种幂律结构。所有这些发现都表明,这些团块是高质量的无星团块,并且很可能包含高质量的无星核心。

英文摘要:

We mapped five massive star forming regions with the SCUBA-2 camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Temperature and column density maps are obtained from the SCUBA-2 450 and 850 $μ$m images. Most of the dense clumps we find have central temperatures below 20 K with some as cold as 8 K, suggesting that they have no internal heating due to the presence of embedded protostars. This is surprising, because at the high densities inferred from these images and at these low temperatures such clumps should be unstable, collapsing to form stars and generating internal heating. The column densities at the clump centres exceed 10$^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$, and the derived peak visual extinction values are from 25-500 mag for $β$ = 1.5-2.5, indicating highly opaque centres. The observed cloud gas masses range from $\sim$ 10 to 10$^{3}$ M$_{\odot}$. The outer regions of the clumps follow an $r^{-2.36\pm0.35}$ density distribution and this power-law structure is observed outside of typically 10$^{4}$ AU. All these findings suggest that these clumps are high-mass starless clumps and most likely contain high-mass starless cores.

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