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银河系HII区电离气体速度矢量的新星族发现

Discovery of a New Population of Galactic HII Regions with Ionized Gas Velocity Gradients

Dana S. Balser, Trey V. Wenger, L. D. Anderson, W. P. Armentrout, T. M. Bania, J. R. Dawson, John M. Dickey

摘要:

利用澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵(ATCA)在4-10 GHz和Jansky甚大阵(VLA)在8-10 GHz探测到的射电复合线(RRL)辐射,研究了银河系HII区的运动学性质。我们的HII区域样本由374个星云的425个独立观测结果组成,这些星云与其他可能混淆的来源相对隔离,并且具有高信噪比的单一RRL分量。我们进行高斯拟合的位置位置速度数据立方体的RRL发射和发现速度梯度在178(42%)的星云与5和200米/秒/角秒之间的幅度。大约15%的源也有一个RRL宽度的空间分布,峰值朝向星云的中心。速度梯度的位置角在天空中似乎是随机的,相对于银河平面没有有利的方向。我们工艺HII区域模拟,包括双极外流或固体旋转运动来解释所观察到的速度梯度。模拟有利于固体旋转,因为与双极外流运动学模型不同,它们能够产生大于40 m/s/arcsec的速度梯度和我们在某些源中观察到的RRL宽度结构。然而,不能排除双极外流模型作为我们样本中许多源的观测速度梯度的可能解释。然而,我们认为,大多数HII区复合物旋转,可能继承了他们的父母分子云的角动量。

英文摘要:

We investigate the kinematic properties of Galactic HII regions using radio recombination line (RRL) emission detected by the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at 4-10 GHz and the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at 8-10 GHz. Our HII region sample consists of 425 independent observations of 374 nebulae that are relatively well isolated from other, potentially confusing sources and have a single RRL component with a high signal-to-noise ratio. We perform Gaussian fits to the RRL emission in position-position-velocity data cubes and discover velocity gradients in 178 (42%) of the nebulae with magnitudes between 5 and 200 m/s/arcsec. About 15% of the sources also have a RRL width spatial distribution that peaks toward the center of the nebula. The velocity gradient position angles appear to be random on the sky with no favored orientation with respect to the Galactic Plane. We craft HII region simulations that include bipolar outflows or solid body rotational motions to explain the observed velocity gradients. The simulations favor solid body rotation since, unlike the bipolar outflow kinematic models, they are able to produce both the large, > 40 m/s/arcsec, velocity gradients and also the RRL width structure that we observe in some sources. The bipolar outflow model, however, cannot be ruled out as a possible explanation for the observed velocity gradients for many sources in our sample. We nevertheless suggest that most HII region complexes are rotating and may have inherited angular momentum from their parent molecular clouds.

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