线性丝状体与嵌套星团演化断层成像(LANCET)I. 捕捉14 parsec丝状体G316.8中密集气体的演化
Linear filament and nested cluster evolution tomography (LANCET) I. Capture the evolution of dense gas in 14-parsec filament G316.8
AI总结:
通过LANCET项目,利用阿塔卡马紧凑阵列在1.3毫米波段对G316.8丝状体进行成像,结合赫尔墨斯和APEX/ArTéMiS数据,研究了从红外暗云到HII区域的密集气体演化过程,揭示了碎片质量和密度分布的变化。
摘要:
通过LANCET项目,利用阿塔卡马紧凑阵列在1.3毫米波段对G316.8丝状体进行成像,结合赫尔墨斯和APEX/ArTéMiS数据,研究了从红外暗云到HII区域的密集气体演化过程,揭示了碎片质量和密度分布的变化。
英文摘要:
A dynamic view of mass assembly is essential for understanding the formation of massive stars and clusters. Interpreting evolutionary diagnostics from Galactic-wide surveys, however, requires careful control of distance and environmental variations. The G316.8 filament provides an ideal laboratory: a 14-pc nearly linear structure composed of three contiguous subregions with comparable molecular gas reservoirs (~10,000 $M_\odot$ each) but spanning a clear evolutionary sequence from an infrared dark cloud (young) through a massive young stellar object (intermediate) to an HII region (evolved). As part of the Linear filament and nested cluster evolution tomography (LANCET) project, we mapped the full filament with the Atacama Compact Array at 1.3 mm, achieving 0.08 pc resolution over 17.1 pc$^2$. Combined with Herschel and APEX/ArTéMiS data, we derived high-resolution temperature and column-density maps. We quantify structural evolution using dense-fragment statistics, column-density PDFs, and $Δ$-variance analysis. From young to evolved regions, the maximum fragment mass increases from 8 to 490 $M_\odot$, while the dense-gas mass fraction ($>0.5$ g cm$^{-2}$) rises from 0.4% to 9.6%. The N-PDF develops a secondary power-law tail and the $Δ$-variance slope becomes progressively shallower, indicating ongoing assembly of dense sub-parsec structures. Our further ALMA 12m continuum and spectral line data will extend this dynamic scenarios down to 800 AU scale.
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