- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/PASA/17.92
- Title:
- CO emission towards Southern dark clouds
- Short Name:
- J/other/PASA/17.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the 22-m 'Mopra' antenna (near Coonabarabran, NSW) of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), we have observed emission from the 115-GHz J=1-0 transition of CO towards the centre of each of the 1101 clouds listed in the Hartley et al. Catalogue of Southern Dark Clouds (SDC, Cat. <VII/191>). The velocity range covered was -96 to +70km/s, with a velocity resolution of 0.120km/s. CO was detected at 1049 of the positions, with 367 spectra showing emission at more than one radial velocity. Here we present the most comprehensive general survey of the SDC catalogue, with the intensity, velocity and half-width of the CO detection and a code describing the profile shape. The presence of blue- or red-shifted wings in many observations can provide a starting point in searches for star-forming regions.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/686/948
- Title:
- CO in extragalactic giant molecular clouds
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/686/948
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and mass-luminosity relations of GMCs in a variety of extragalactic systems. Although the data are heterogeneous, we analyze them in a consistent manner to remove the biases introduced by limited sensitivity and resolution, thus obtaining reliable sizes, velocity dispersions, and luminosities. We compare the results obtained in dwarf galaxies with those from the Local Group spiral galaxies. We find that extragalactic GMC properties measured across a wide range of environments are very much compatible with those in the Galaxy. The property that shows the largest variability is their resolved brightness temperature, although even that is similar to the average Galactic value in most sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/838/49
- Title:
- CO large-field observations around l=150{deg}
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/838/49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present large-field (4.25x3.75deg^2^) mapping observations toward the Galactic region centered at l=150{deg},b=3.5{deg} in the J=1-0 emission line of CO isotopologues (^12^CO, ^13^CO, and C^18^O), using the 13.7m millimeter-wavelength telescope of the Purple Mountain Observatory. Based on the ^13^CO observations, we reveal a filamentary cloud in the Local Arm at a velocity range of -0.5 to 6.5km/s. This molecular cloud contains 1 main filament and 11 sub-filaments, showing the so-called "ridge-nest" structure. The main filament and three sub-filaments are also detected in the C^18^O line. The velocity structures of most identified filaments display continuous distribution with slight velocity gradients. The measured median excitation temperature, line width, length, width, and linear mass of the filaments are ~9.28K, 0.85km/s, 7.30pc, 0.79pc, and 17.92M_{sun}_/pc, respectively, assuming a distance of 400pc. We find that the four filaments detected in the C^18^O line are thermally supercritical, and two of them are in the virialized state, and thus tend to be gravitationally bound. We identify in total 146 ^13^CO clumps in the cloud, about 77% of the clumps are distributed along the filaments. About 56% of the virialized clumps are found to be associated with the supercritical filaments. Three young stellar object candidates are also identified in the supercritical filaments, based on the complementary infrared data. These results indicate that the supercritical filaments, especially the virialized filaments, may contain star-forming activities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/578/A29
- Title:
- Column density maps in 4 IRDCs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/578/A29
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyse column density and temperature maps derived from Herschel dust continuum observations of a sample of prominent, massive infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) i.e. G11.11-0.12, G18.82-0.28, G28.37+0.07, and G28.53-0.25. We disentangle the velocity structure of the clouds using ^13^CO 1->0 and ^12^CO 3->2 data, showing that these IRDCs are the densest regions in massive giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and not isolated features. The probability distribution function (PDF) of column densities for all clouds have a power-law distribution over all (high) column densities, regardless of the evolutionary stage of the cloud: G11.11-0.12, G18.82-0.28, and G28.37+0.07 contain (proto)-stars, while G28.53-0.25 shows no signs of star formation. This is in contrast to the purely log-normal PDFs reported for near and/or mid-IR extinction maps. We only find a log-normal distribution for lower column densities, if we perform PDFs of the column density maps of the whole GMC in which the IRDCs are embedded. By comparing the PDF slope and the radial column density profile of three of our clouds, we attribute the power law to the effect of large-scale gravitational collapse and to local free-fall collapse of pre- and protostellar cores for the highest column densities. A significant impact on the cloud properties from radiative feedback is unlikely because the clouds are mostly devoid of star formation. Independent from the PDF analysis, we find infall signatures in the spectral profiles of ^12^CO for G28.37+0.07 and G11.11-0.12, supporting the scenario of gravitational collapse. Our results are in line with earlier interpretations that see massive IRDCs as the densest regions within GMCs, which may be the progenitors of massive stars or clusters. At least some of the IRDCs are probably the same features as ridges (high column density regions with N>10^23^cm^-2^ over small areas), which were defined for nearby IR-bright GMCs. Because IRDCs are only confined to the densest (gravity dominated) cloud regions, the PDF constructed from this kind of a clipped image does not represent the (turbulence dominated) low column density regime of the cloud.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/510/A98
- Title:
- ^12^C^18^O(3-2) map of rho Oph A
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/510/A98
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The large submillimetre map of rho Oph A in the ^12^C^18^O(3-2) line, obtained with the APEX 12m telescope, covers 10' in RA by 5' in DE, sampled on a rectangular grid, aligned with the equatorial coordinate system and with regular 20" spacings (548 spectra). An inner ^12^C^18^O(3-2) map, extending over 200" by 200" (462 spectra) is sampled at the Nyqvist frequency.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/519/A27
- Title:
- CO maps in Serpens
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/519/A27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Serpens North cluster is a nearby low mass star forming region which is part of the Gould belt. It contains a range of young stars thought to correspond to two different bursts of star formation and provides the opportunity to study different stages of cluster formation. This work aims to study the molecular gas in the Serpens North cluster to probe the origin of the most recent burst of star formation in Serpens. Transitions of the C^17^O and C^18^O observed with the IRAM 30m telescope and JCMT are used to study the mass and velocity structure of the region while the physical properties of the gas are derived using LTE and non-LTE analyses of the three lowest transitions of C^18^O.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/592/A54
- Title:
- Combined ArTeMiS+SPIRE 350um image of NGC6334
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/592/A54
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Herschel observations of nearby molecular clouds suggest that interstellar filaments and prestellar cores represent two fundamental steps in the star formation process. The observations support a picture of low-mass star formation according to which filaments of ~0.1pc width form first in the cold interstellar medium, probably as a result of large-scale compression of interstellar matter by supersonic turbulent flows, and then prestellar cores arise from gravitational fragmentation of the densest filaments. Whether this scenario also applies to regions of high-mass star formation is an open question, in part because the resolution of Herschel is insufficient to resolve the inner width of filaments in the nearest regions of massive star formation. In an effort to characterize the inner width of filaments in high-mass star-forming regions, we imaged the central part of the NGC 6334 complex at a resolution higher by a factor of >3 than Herschel at 350microns. We used the large-format bolometer camera ArTeMiS on the APEX telescope and combined the high-resolution ArTeMiS data at 350microns with Herschel/HOBYS data at 70-500microns to ensure good sensitivity to a broad range of spatial scales. This allowed us to study the structure of the main narrow filament of the complex with a resolution of 8" or <0.07pc at d~1.7kpc. Our study confirms that this filament is a very dense, massive linear structure with a line mass ranging from ~500M_{sun}_/pc to ~2000M_{sun}_/pc over nearly 10pc. It also demonstrates for the first time that its inner width remains as narrow as W~0.15+/-0.05pc all along the filament length, within a factor of <2 of the characteristic 0.1pc value found with Herschel for lower-mass filaments in the Gould Belt. While it is not completely clear whether the NGC 6334 filament will form massive stars in the future, it is two to three orders of magnitude denser than the majority of filaments observed in Gould Belt clouds, and has a very similar inner width. This points to a common physical mechanism for setting the filament width and suggests that some important structural properties of nearby clouds also hold in high-mass star-forming regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/60/1297
- Title:
- CO molecular clouds in Carina flare supershell
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/60/1297
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of ^12^CO(J=1-0) and ^13^CO(J=1-0) molecular clouds in the spatio-velocity range of the Carina Flare supershell, GSH287+04-17. The data cover a region of ~66 square degrees and were taken with the NANTEN 4m telescope, at spatial and velocity resolutions of ~2.6' and 0.1km/s. Decomposition of the emission results in the identification of 156 ^12^CO clouds and 60 ^13^CO clouds, for which we provide observational and physical parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/53/1081
- Title:
- CO molecular clouds in Lupus
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/53/1081
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Lupus star-forming region has been surveyed for molecular clouds in ^12^CO with the NANTEN radio telescope, and a cloud mass of 1.7x10^4^M_{sun}_ has been revealed. We were able to detect 105 molecular clouds, most of which are relatively small and of low mass. The members of the Sco OB 2 association and the X-ray detected pre-main-sequence stars (PMSs) are distributed all around this region. The OB stars and the molecular clouds show exclusive distributions. Large fractions of the PMSs are located away from the molecular clouds, and are thus isolated. The origin of the isolated PMSs is discussed. About 40% of the PMSs have candidates of their parent clouds less massive than 20M_{sun}_ within 4pc, which suggests in-situ star formation in the small clouds and their rapid dissipation. The separations from the PMSs to the clouds are typically larger than those in the Chamaeleon region, probably because of coexisting OB stars. From the cloud structures and the distributions of the OB stars, PMSs, and H I expanding shell, it is suggested that the molecular clouds have been effectively dissipated by the OB stars and a shock wave, which may also have triggered star formation in Lupus and the {rho} Oph clouds.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/57/917
- Title:
- CO molecular clouds in southern Galactic Warp
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/57/917
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We made an unbiased search for molecular clouds in the Galactic Warp. This survey, covering an area of 56 square degrees at l=252{deg} to 266{deg} and b=-5{deg} to -1{deg}, revealed 70 molecular clouds, while only 6 clouds were previously known in this sector at R>~14.5kpc.
