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CHIMPS:银河系内部分子团的物理性质

CHIMPS: Physical properties of molecular clumps across the inner Galaxy

A. J. Rigby, T. J. T. Moore, D. J. Eden, J. S. Urquhart, S. E. Ragan, N. Peretto, R. Plume, M. A. Thompson, M. J. Currie, G. Park

摘要:

最新一代的分子气体示踪剂高角分辨率无偏银河平面调查使分子云的内部能够在一系列环境中进行研究。CHIMPS巡天同时以15角秒的分辨率在13 CO和C 18 O(3-2)中绘制了银河系内平面的一个扇区,范围为27.8 < l < 46.2度和|b| < 0.5度。CHIMPS数据与来自COHRS调查的12 CO(3-2)数据的组合使我们能够进行逐体素局部热力学平衡分析,确定13 CO在每个l,b,v位置的激发温度,光学深度和柱密度。FellWalker在13 CO(3-2)排放图中确定的离散源的距离被确定,允许计算源的许多物理性质,我们在本文中提出了第一个源目录。我们发现,在尺寸和密度方面,CHIMPS源代表了由CO识别的大规模分子云和尘埃排放中看到的致密团块之间的中间人群,因此代表了从扩散到致密相的分子气体的批量过渡。我们没有发现任何显着的系统性变化的质量,柱密度,维里参数,激发温度,或在银河系的距离探测范围内的湍流压力,但我们确实发现了一个浅的平均体积密度随着银河系的距离增加。我们发现,臂间团块有显着更窄的线宽,和较低的维里参数和激发温度比团块位于螺旋臂。当考虑最可靠的距离有限的子样本时,最大的变化发生在星系团到星系团的尺度上,这与最近的类似研究相呼应,这些研究表明恒星形成过程对银河系尺度的环境基本上不敏感,至少在内盘内是如此。

英文摘要:

The latest generation of high-angular-resolution unbiased Galactic plane surveys in molecular-gas tracers are enabling the interiors of molecular clouds to be studied across a range of environments. The CHIMPS survey simultaneously mapped a sector of the inner Galactic plane, within 27.8 < l < 46.2 deg and |b| < 0.5 deg, in 13CO and C18O (3-2) at 15 arcsec resolution. The combination of CHIMPS data with 12CO (3-2) data from the COHRS survey has enabled us to perform a voxel-by-voxel local-thermodynamic-equilibrium analysis, determining the excitation temperature, optical depth, and column density of 13CO at each l,b,v position. Distances to discrete sources identified by FellWalker in the 13CO (3-2) emission maps were determined, allowing the calculation of numerous physical properties of the sources, and we present the first source catalogues in this paper. We find that, in terms of size and density, the CHIMPS sources represent an intermediate population between large-scale molecular clouds identified by CO and dense clumps seen in dust emission, and therefore represent the bulk transition from the diffuse to the dense phase of molecular gas. We do not find any significant systematic variations in the masses, column densities, virial parameters, excitation temperature, or the turbulent pressure over the range of Galactocentric distance probed, but we do find a shallow increase in the mean volume density with increasing Galactocentric distance. We find that inter-arm clumps have significantly narrower linewidths, and lower virial parameters and excitation temperatures than clumps located in spiral arms. When considering the most reliable distance-limited subsamples, the largest variations occur on the clump-to-clump scale, echoing similar recent studies that suggest that the star-forming process is largely insensitive to the Galactic-scale environment, at least within the inner disc.

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