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寻找巨大的无星核心

A Hunt for Massive Starless Cores

Shuo Kong, Jonathan C. Tan, Paola Caselli, Francesco Fontani, Mengyao Liu, Michael J. Butler

摘要:

我们对7个红外暗云中的32个高质量面密度区进行了ALMA $\rm N_2D^+$(3-2)和1.3mm连续谱巡天,目的是寻找大质量无星核,这可能是大质量恒星形成的初始条件。显示出强烈的$\rm N_2D^+$(3-2)发射的核心预计是高度氘化的,并表明早期的恒星形成阶段。我们还在辅助线示踪剂中提供了这些区域的地图,包括C $^{18}$ O(2-1),DCN(3-2)和DCO $^+$(3-2)。超过100个$\rm N_2D^+$核心识别与我们新开发的核心发现算法的基础上连接结构的位置-速度空间。质量最大的核心有$\sim70\:M_\odot$(可能是$\sim170\:M_\odot$),因此可能代表大质量恒星形成的初始条件。这种核心的存在和动力学性质限制了大质量恒星形成理论。我们测量的线宽,从而速度分散的核心最强的$\rm N_2D^+$(3-2)线发射,发现结果是基本一致的维里平衡的压力约束的核心。

英文摘要:

We carry out an ALMA $\rm N_2D^+$(3-2) and 1.3~mm continuum survey towards 32 high mass surface density regions in seven Infrared Dark Clouds with the aim of finding massive starless cores, which may be the initial conditions for the formation of massive stars. Cores showing strong $\rm N_2D^+$(3-2) emission are expected to be highly deuterated and indicative of early, potentially pre-stellar stages of star formation. We also present maps of these regions in ancillary line tracers, including C$^{18}$O(2-1), DCN(3-2) and DCO$^+$(3-2). Over 100 $\rm N_2D^+$ cores are identified with our newly developed core-finding algorithm based on connected structures in position-velocity space. The most massive core has $\sim70\:M_\odot$ (potentially $\sim170\:M_\odot$) and so may be representative of the initial conditions for massive star formation. The existence and dynamical properties of such cores constrain massive star formation theories. We measure the line widths and thus velocity dispersion of six of the cores with strongest $\rm N_2D^+$(3-2) line emission, finding results that are generally consistent with virial equilibrium of pressure confined cores.

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