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星系中心星团分子气体的过程与恒星形成

The Processing of the Clumpy Molecular Gas in the Galactic Center and the Star-Formation

Hauyu Baobab Liu, Paul T. P. Ho, Melvyn C. H. Wright, Yu-Nung Su, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Ai-Lei Sun, Sungsoo S. Kim, Young Chol Minh

摘要:

本文介绍了在银心中心~20 pc区域用绿岸100米望远镜(GBT)对CS 1-0进行的测绘观测,以及用亚毫米波阵列(SMA)对0.86mm尘埃连续辐射和几种温暖致密气体示踪物进行的157点镶嵌观测。前所未有的大视野和高角分辨率的SMA尘埃图像允许识别丰富的0.1-0.2 pc规模的致密气体团。我们发现,在银河系中心,I类甲醇脉泽与致密气体团有很好的关联。然而,在~0.1 pc尺度下,这些致密气体团簇仍然具有极大的线宽(FWHM~10-20 km/s)。简单的计算表明,已识别的团块可能是加压气体库,为1-10颗太阳质量的恒星的形成提供了燃料。这些气体团可能是ALMA解决银河系中心大质量恒星形成的最有希望的候选者。

英文摘要:

We present the Green Bank 100m Telescope (GBT) mapping observations of CS 1-0, and the Submillimeter Array (SMA) 157-pointings mosaic of the 0.86 mm dust continuum emission as well as several warm and dense gas tracers, in the central ~20 pc area in Galactic Center. The unprecedentedly large field-of-view and the high angular resolution of our SMA dust image allow the identification of abundant 0.1-0.2 pc scale dense gas clumps. We found that in the Galactic Center, the Class I methanol masers are excellently correlated with the dense gas clumps. However, on the ~0.1 pc scale, these dense gas clumps still have a extremely large linewidth (FWHM~10-20 km/s). Simple calculations suggest that the identified clumps can be possibly the pressurized gas reservoir feeding the formation of 1-10 solar-mass stars. These gas clumps may be the most promising candidates for ALMA to resolve the high-mass star-formation in the Galactic center.

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