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arXiv 2101.04022astro-ph.GA
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到砖块的新距离,密集分子云G0 .253+0.016

A new distance to the Brick, the dense molecular cloud G0.253+0.016

M. Zoccali, E. Valenti, F. Surot, O. A. Gonzalez, A. Renzini, A. Valenzuela Navarro

摘要:

我们分析了一个包含巨大分子云G0.253+0.016(a.k.a.砖)在高空间分辨率观察,与霍克-I在VLT。红团星在穿过星云的视线上的分布,与在它旁边而不穿过它的方向上的分布相比较,使我们能够测量星云到太阳的距离为7.20,统计不确定度为+/-0.16,系统误差为+/-0.20千秒差距。这比通常假设的要近得多,即,该云属于中央分子带的近端,距离银河系中心60 pc。这一假设是基于中心分子区的动力学模型,观测上受到这个云和其他云的径向速度的唯一约束。确定砖云的真实位置是相关的,因为这是银河系的致密云,没有显示任何正在进行的恒星形成。这使得云的密度与恒星形成率之间的肯尼库特-施密特关系偏离了1个数量级。对于这种没有恒星形成的现象已经提出了几种解释,其中大多数是基于银河系中心区域内这种云和其他云的动力学演化。我们的研究结果强调,需要包括来自恒星观测的约束,在我们的银河系中央分子带的解释。

英文摘要:

We analyse the near infrared colour magnitude diagram of a field including the giant molecular cloud G0.253+0.016 (a.k.a. The Brick) observed at high spatial resolution, with HAWK-I at the VLT. The distribution of red clump stars in a line of sight crossing the cloud, compared with that in a direction just beside it, and not crossing it, allow us to measure the distance of the cloud from the Sun to be 7.20, with a statistical uncertainty of +/-0.16 and a systematic error of +/-0.20 kpc. This is significantly closer than what is generally assumed, i.e., that the cloud belongs to the near side of the central molecular zone, at 60 pc from the Galactic center. This assumption was based on dynamical models of the central molecular zone, observationally constrained uniquely by the radial velocity of this and other clouds. Determining the true position of the Brick cloud is relevant because this is the densest cloud of the Galaxy not showing any ongoing star formation. This puts the cloud off by 1 order of magnitude from the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation between the density of the dense gas and the star formation rate. Several explanations have been proposed for this absence of star formation, most of them based on the dynamical evolution of this and other clouds, within the Galactic center region. Our result emphasizes the need to include constraints coming from stellar observations in the interpretation of our Galaxy central molecular zone.

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