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猎户座星云光辐射云的压缩和烧蚀

Compression and ablation of the photo-irradiated cloud the Orion Bar

Javier R. Goicoechea, J. Pety, S. Cuadrado, J. Cernicharo, E. Chapillon, A. Fuente, M. Gerin, C. Joblin, N. Marcelino, P. Pilleri

摘要:

猎户座条是典型的边缘分子云表面,被附近大质量恒星的强紫外线辐射照亮。由于距离猎户座很近(约1,350光年),因此可以详细研究恒星反馈对母云的影响。对Bar(1)的可见光观测表明,热的电离气体和温暖的中性原子气体之间的跃迁(电离锋)与原子气体到分子气体的跃迁(离解锋)在空间上有很好的分离:大约15角秒或6,200天文单位(一个天文单位是地球到太阳的距离)。用于解释以前对Bar(4,5,6)中性气体的远红外和射电观测(通常分辨率为10-20角秒)的静力平衡模型(2,3)预测了一种不均匀的云结构,由嵌入在较低密度扩展气体成分中的致密团块组成。在这里,我们报告一弧秒分辨率毫米波图像,使我们能够解决分子云表面。与稳态模型预测(7,8,9)相反,在H2振动发射峰(描绘H/H2跃迁)和观察到的CO和HCO+发射边缘之间没有明显的偏移。这意味着H/H2和C+/C/CO过渡区非常接近。这些观测结果揭示了高密度亚结构、光烧蚀气流和分子云表面不稳定性的碎片脊。结果表明,云的边缘已经被目前进入分子云的高压波压缩。图像表明,动力学和非平衡效应是云演变的重要因素。

英文摘要:

The Orion Bar is the archetypal edge-on molecular cloud surface illuminated by strong ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars. Owing to the close distance to Orion (about 1,350 light-year), the effects of stellar feedback on the parental cloud can be studied in detail. Visible-light observations of the Bar(1) show that the transition between the hot ionised gas and the warm neutral atomic gas (the ionisation front) is spatially well separated from the transition from atomic to molecular gas (the dissociation front): about 15 arcseconds or 6,200 astronomical units (one astronomical unit is the Earth-Sun distance). Static equilibrium models(2,3) used to interpret previous far-infrared and radio observations of the neutral gas in the Bar(4,5,6) (typically at 10-20 arcsecond resolution) predict an inhomogeneous cloud structure consisting of dense clumps embedded in a lower density extended gas component. Here we report one-arcsecond-resolution millimetre-wave images that allow us to resolve the molecular cloud surface. In contrast to stationary model predictions(7,8,9), there is no appreciable offset between the peak of the H2 vibrational emission (delineating the H/H2 transition) and the edge of the observed CO and HCO+ emission. This implies that the H/H2 and C+/C/CO transition zones are very close. These observations reveal a fragmented ridge of high-density substructures, photoablative gas flows and instabilities at the molecular cloud surface. The results suggest that the cloud edge has been compressed by a high-pressure wave that currently moves into the molecular cloud. The images demonstrate that dynamical and nonequilibrium effects are important for the cloud evolution.

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