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红外暗云的巨分子云环境

The Giant Molecular Cloud Environments of Infrared Dark Clouds

Audra K. Hernandez, Jonathan C. Tan

摘要:

利用银河系环巡天的$^{13}$ CO(1-0)辐射,研究了1 - 0个红外暗云(IRDC)周围的巨分子云(GMC)环境。我们测量这些IRDC/GMCs的物理特性的范围内的尺度延伸到半径,R,30 pc。通过比较不同的方法来定义云的边界和推导质量的表面密度和速度分散,我们解决了一个首选的“CE,$τ$,G”的方法“连接提取”在位置-速度空间加高斯拟合不透明度校正线轮廓的速度分散和质量估计。我们研究云的定义如何影响测量的幅度和方向的视线速度梯度和速度分散,包括相关的依赖关系的大小规模。CE、$τ$、G定义的GMC显示速度弥散与尺寸关系$σ\propto{s}^{1/2}$,这与湍流引起的大尺度梯度一致。然而,IRDC的速度分散度比这个比例关系预测的要高。我们研究的动力学状态的云发现平均维里参数$\barα_{\rm{vir}}\simeq 1.0$的GMCs和1.6的IRDC,大致符合磁化维里化的压力限制多变云的模型,但可能表明,IRDC有更多的扰动运动学。CE、$τ$、G定义的云表现出$σ/R^{1/2}\proptoΣ^n$的紧密相关性,其中GMC的$n\simeq0.7$为$n\simeq0.7$,IRDC的$n\simeq0.7$为1.3(参见,对于维里化云的群体预期值为0.5)。我们的结论是,虽然GMCs在一系列尺度上显示出男性化的证据,IRDC可能是适度的超级男性化。或者,IRDC可以被病毒化,但具有系统性不同的$^{13}$ CO气相丰度,即,由于冻结,影响质量估计。

英文摘要:

We study Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) environments surrounding 10 Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs), using $^{13}$CO(1-0) emission from the Galactic Ring Survey. We measure physical properties of these IRDCs/GMCs on a range of scales extending to radii, R, of 30 pc. By comparing different methods for defining cloud boundaries and for deriving mass surface densities and velocity dispersions, we settle on a preferred "CE,$τ$,G" method of "Connected Extraction" in position-velocity space plus Gaussian fitting to opacity-corrected line profiles for velocity dispersion and mass estimation. We examine how cloud definition affects measurements of the magnitude and direction of line-of-sight velocity gradients and velocity dispersions, including associated dependencies on size scale. CE,$τ$,G-defined GMCs show velocity dispersion versus size relations $σ\propto{s}^{1/2}$, which are consistent with the large-scale gradients being caused by turbulence. However, IRDCs have velocity dispersions that are moderately enhanced above those predicted by this scaling relation. We examine the dynamical state of the clouds finding mean virial parameters $\barα_{\rm{vir}}\simeq 1.0$ for GMCs and 1.6 for IRDCs, broadly consistent with models of magnetized virialized pressure-confined polytropic clouds, but potentially indicating that IRDCs have more disturbed kinematics. CE,$τ$,G-defined clouds exhibit a tight correlation of $σ/R^{1/2}\proptoΣ^n$, with $n\simeq0.7$ for GMCs and 1.3 for IRDCs (c.f., a value of 0.5 expected for a population of virialized clouds). We conclude that while GMCs show evidence for virialization over a range of scales, IRDCs may be moderately super virial. Alternatively, IRDCs could be virialized but have systematically different $^{13}$CO gas phase abundances, i.e., due to freeze-out, affecting mass estimations.

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