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大质量惯性IRDC中的多分量运动学

Multicomponent kinematics in a massive filamentary IRDC

Vlas Sokolov, Ke Wang, Jaime E. Pineda, Paola Caselli, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Ashley T. Barnes, Jonathan C. Tan, Francesco Fontani, Izaskun Jimenez-Serra

摘要:

为了探索大质量恒星和团簇形成的初始条件,我们在甚大阵(VLA)和绿岸望远镜(GBT)的组合镶嵌图上研究了红外暗云G035.39-00.33(IRDC G035.39)内致密细丝的性质,追踪NH3(1,1)和(2,2)的发射,直到0.08 pc尺度。使用凝聚的层次聚类的多个视线速度分量拟合结果,我们确定了七个扩展的速度相干分量在我们的数据,可能代表空间相干的物理结构,一些表现出复杂的气体运动。速度梯度大小分布的峰值在0.35 km/s/pc的模式,并有一个长尾巴延伸到1.5 - 2 km/s/pc的较高值,并与其他分子示踪剂对同一云的发现和对附近低质量致密云核在相同尺度下的发现值基本一致。与观测和理论预期相反,我们发现非热氨谱线宽度比以类似分辨率观察到的N2 H+(1-0)谱线跃迁系统地窄(约20%)。如果观测到的有序速度梯度代表核心包层固体的旋转,我们估计比角动量约为2 x 10^21 cm ^2/s,与低质量恒星形成核心相似。再加上之前在G035.39中发现的亚音速运动,我们的研究结果表明,高质量恒星形成IRDC和低质量恒星形成机制的运动学之间具有高度的相似性。

英文摘要:

To probe the initial conditions for high-mass star and cluster formation, we investigate the properties of dense filaments within the infrared dark cloud G035.39-00.33 (IRDC G035.39) in a combined Very Large Array (VLA) and the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) mosaic tracing the NH3 (1,1) and (2,2) emission down to 0.08 pc scales. Using agglomerative hierarchical clustering on multiple line-of-sight velocity component fitting results, we identify seven extended velocity-coherent components in our data, likely representing spatially coherent physical structures, some exhibiting complex gas motions. The velocity gradient magnitude distribution peaks at its mode of 0.35 km/s/pc and has a long tail extending into higher values of 1.5 - 2 km/s/pc, and is generally consistent with those found toward the same cloud in other molecular tracers and with the values found towards nearby low-mass dense cloud cores at the same scales. Contrary to observational and theoretical expectations, we find the non-thermal ammonia line widths to be systematically narrower (by about 20%) than those of N2H+ (1-0) line transition observed with similar resolution. If the observed ordered velocity gradients represent the core envelope solid-body rotation, we estimate the specific angular momentum to be about 2 x 10^21 cm^2/s, similar to the low-mass star-forming cores. Together with the previous finding of subsonic motions in G035.39, our results demonstrate high levels of similarity between kinematics of a high-mass star-forming IRDC and the low-mass star formation regime.

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