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通过云-云碰撞在M20中触发O星形成:高分辨率CO观测和模拟之间的比较

Triggered O star formation in M20 via cloud-cloud collision: Comparisons between high-resolution CO observations and simulations

Kazufumi Torii, Yusuke Hattori, Keisuke Hasegawa, AKio Ohama, Thomas J. Haworth, Kazuhiro Shima, Aasao Habe, Kengo Tachihara, Norikazu Mizuno, Toshikazu Onishi,… 展开作者

Kazufumi Torii, Yusuke Hattori, Keisuke Hasegawa, AKio Ohama, Thomas J. Haworth, Kazuhiro Shima, Aasao Habe, Kengo Tachihara, Norikazu Mizuno, Toshikazu Onishi, Akira Mizuno, Yasuo Fukui

摘要:

大质量恒星的形成是天体物理学中最重要的问题之一。最近的观测研究表明,在银河系和大麦云云的几个地方,云与云的碰撞可能在高质量恒星的形成中发挥作用。三叉星云M20是一个著名的银河系HII区域,被一颗O7.5恒星电离。2011年,基于NANTEN 2的CO观测,我们报道了O星是由两个分子云碰撞形成的,距今约0.3百万年。这些观测确定了两个朝向M20的分子云,其相对速度为7.5公里/秒。这种速度分离意味着星云不可能被引力束缚在M20上,但由于星云显示出被恒星加热的迹象,它们在空间上一定与M20重合,因此碰撞的可能性很大。本文介绍了用Mopra和ASTE望远镜对M20碰撞云进行的新的CO J=1-0和J=3-2观测。高分辨率观测揭示了这两个分子云具有独特的空间和速度结构,即,两个云之间的空间互补分布以及在速度空间中连接两个云的桥特征。基于一个新的比较与数值模式,我们发现,这种互补的分布是云-云碰撞的预期结果,和桥功能可以解释为湍流气体在碰撞界面处激发。我们的研究结果加强了M20中的云-云碰撞场景。

英文摘要:

High-mass star formation is one of the top-priority issues in astrophysics. Recent observational studies are revealing that cloud-cloud collisions may play a role in high-mass star formation in several places in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Trifid Nebula M20 is a well known galactic HII region ionized by a single O7.5 star. In 2011, based on the CO observations with NANTEN2 we reported that the O star was formed by the collision between two molecular clouds ~0.3,Myr ago. Those observations identified two molecular clouds towards M20, traveling at a relative velocity of 7.5 km/s. This velocity separation implies that the clouds cannot be gravitationally bound to M20, but since the clouds show signs of heating by the stars there they must be spatially coincident with it. A collision is therefore highly possible. In this paper we present the new CO J=1-0 and J=3-2 observations of the colliding clouds in M20 performed with the Mopra and ASTE telescopes. The high resolution observations revealed the two molecular clouds have peculiar spatial and velocity structures, i.e., the spatially complementary distribution between the two clouds and the bridge feature which connects the two clouds in velocity space. Based on a new comparison with numerical models, we find that this complementary distribution is an expected outcome of cloud-cloud collisions, and that the bridge feature can be interpreted as the turbulent gas excited at the interface of the collision. Our results reinforce the cloud-cloud collision scenario in M20.

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