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Hi-GAL中的北银河系分子云团块:致密气体图和环境趋势

Northern Galactic Molecular Cloud Clumps in Hi-GAL: Dense Gas Map and Environmental Trends

Erika Zetterlund, Jason Glenn, Erik Rosolowsky

摘要:

在寻求理解高质量恒星形成的过程中,有必要了解高质量恒星将形成的物质-致密的分子气体云和团块。赫歇尔红外银河系平面巡天(Hi-GAL)是对热尘埃发射的全面巡天,可用于表征分子气体的性质和银河系分布。我们分析了银河经度范围内的勘测图$10^\circ < \ell < 56^\circ$,并利用距离概率密度函数将这些2D图转换成银河平面的3D稠密气体图。这个范围对应于银河系环巡天(GRS)的范围,它提供了我们大部分的视线速度,因此是运动学距离。在Hi-GAL的这一部分中,我们识别了19,886个簇,其中10,124个至少具有运动学距离,5,405个通过贝叶斯技术很好地约束了它们的距离。在那些距离受到严格限制的星系中,星系团的质量随银心半径的增大而减小,而星系团的半径则与银心半径无关。

英文摘要:

In the quest to understand high-mass star formation, it is necessary to understand that from which the high-mass stars will form -- the dense molecular gas clouds and clumps. The Herschel infrared GALactic plane survey (Hi-GAL) is a comprehensive survey of thermal dust emission that can be used to characterize the properties and Galactic distribution of molecular gas. We have analyzed the survey maps within the Galactic longitude range $10^\circ < \ell < 56^\circ$ and have transformed these 2D maps into a 3D dense gas map of the Galactic plane using distance probability density functions. This range corresponds to the extent of the Galactic Ring Survey (GRS), which provided the majority of our line-of-sight velocities, and thus kinematic distances. In this section of Hi-GAL, we identify 19,886 clumps, out of which 10,124 have, at minimum, a kinematic distance, and 5,405 have their distances well constrained through Bayesian techniques. Of those with well-constrained distances, clump masses tend to decrease with Galactocentric radius, whereas clump radii are independent of Galactocentric radius.

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