- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A115
- Title:
- L1188 HCO+, 12CO and 13CO datacubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/632/A115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to search for further observational evidence of cloud-cloud collisions in one of the promising candidates, L1188, we carried out observations of multiple molecular lines toward the intersection region of the two nearly orthogonal filamentary molecular clouds in L1188. Based on these observations, we find two parallel filamentary structures, both of which have at least two velocity components being connected with broad bridging features. We also found a spatially complementary distribution between the two molecular clouds, as well as enhanced ^13^CO emission and ^12^CO self-absorption toward their abutting regions. At the most blueshifted velocities, we unveiled a 1pc-long arc ubiquitously showing ^12^CO line wings. We discovered two 22GHz water masers, which are the first maser detections in L1188. An analysis of line ratios at a linear resolution of 0.2 pc suggests that L1188 is characterised by kinetic temperatures of 13-23K and H_2_ number densities of 10^3^-10^3.6^cm^-3^. On the basis of previous theoretical predictions and simulations, we suggest that these observational features can be naturally explained by the scenario of a cloud-cloud collision in L1188, although an additional contribution of stellar feedback from low-mass young stellar objects cannot be ruled out.
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322. L1642 Herschel maps
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/563/A125
- Title:
- L1642 Herschel maps
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/563/A125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- L1642 is one of the two high galactic latitude (|b|>30{deg}) clouds confirmed to have active star formation. We examine the properties of this cloud, especially the large-scale structure, dust properties, and compact sources at different stages of star formation. We present high-resolution far-infrared and submillimetre observations with the Herschel and AKARI satellites and millimetre observations with the AzTEC/ASTE telescope, which we combined with archive data from near- and mid-infrared (2MASS, WISE) to millimetre wavelength observations (Planck).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/515/A75
- Title:
- Low-mass population in {rho} Oph cloud
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/515/A75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Star formation theories are currently divergent regarding the fundamental physical processes that dominate the substellar regime. Observations of nearby young open clusters allow the brown dwarf (BD) population to be characterised down to the planetary mass regime, which ultimately must be accommodated by a successful theory. We used near-IR deep images (reaching completeness limits of approximately 20.5mag in J, and 18.9mag in H and Ks taken with the Wide Field IR Camera (WIRCam) at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to identify candidate members of {rho} Oph in the substellar regime. A spectroscopic follow-up of a small sample of the candidates allows us to assess their spectral type, and subsequently their temperature and membership. We select 110 candidate members of the {rho} Ophiuchi molecular cloud, from which 80 have not previously been associated with the cloud. We observed a small sample of these and spectroscopically confirm six new brown dwarfs with spectral types ranging from M6.5 to M8.25.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/36
- Title:
- Low-mass star-forming cores observed with SHARC-II
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/36
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of low-mass dense cores observed with the SHARC-II instrument at 350{mu}m. Our observations have an effective angular resolution of 10'', approximately 2.5 times higher than observations at the same wavelength obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory, albeit with lower sensitivity, especially to extended emission. The catalog includes 81 maps covering a total of 164 detected sources. For each detected source, we tabulate basic source properties including position, peak intensity, flux density in fixed apertures, and radius. We examine the uncertainties in the pointing model applied to all SHARC-II data and conservatively find that the model corrections are good to within ~3'', approximately 1/3 of the SHARC-II beam. We examine the differences between two array scan modes and find that the instrument calibration, beam size, and beam shape are similar between the two modes. We also show that the same flux densities are measured when sources are observed in the two different modes, indicating that there are no systematic effects introduced into our catalog by utilizing two different scan patterns during the course of taking observations. We find a detection rate of 95% for protostellar cores but only 45% for starless cores, and demonstrate the existence of a SHARC-II detection bias against all but the most massive and compact starless cores. Finally, we discuss the improvements in protostellar classification enabled by these 350{mu}m observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A162
- Title:
- L1489 starless core carbon-chain-producing region
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/627/A162
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a study of a particular carbon-chain-producing region, L1489 starless core (L1489 EMC), which is located at 1-arcmin east of L1489 IRS. We detected carbon-chain molecules (CCMs) HC_2_n+1N (n=1-3) and C_3_S in Ku band as well as high-energy excitation lines including C_4_H N=9-8, J=17/2-15/2, 19/2-17/2, and CH_3_CCH J=5-4, K=2 in the 3mm band toward a starless core called the eastern molecular core (EMC) of L1489 IRS. Maps of all the observed lines were also obtained. Comparisons with a number of early starless cores and WCCC source L1527 show that the column densities of C_4_H and CH_3_CCH are close to those of L1527, and the CH_3_CCH column densities of the EMC and L1527 are slightly higher than those of TMC-1. The EMC and L1527 have similar C3S column densities, but they are much lower than those of all the starless cores, with only 6.5% and 10% of the TMC-1 value, respectively. The emissions of the N-bearing species of the EMC and L1527 are at the medium level of the starless cores. These comparisons show that the CCM emissions in the EMC are similar to those of L1527, though L1527 contains a protostar. Although dark and quiescent, the EMC is warmer and at a later evolutionary stage than classical carbon-chain-producing regions in the cold, dark, quiescent early phase. The PACS, SPIRE, and SCUBA maps evidently show that the L1489 IRS seems to be the heating source of the EMC. Although it is located at the margins of the EMC, its bolometric luminosity and bolometric temperature are relatively high. Above all, the EMC is a rather particular carbon-chain-producing region and is quite significant for CCM science.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/94
- Title:
- Luminosities of protostars from two Spitzer surveys
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/145/94
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Motivated by the long-standing "luminosity problem" in low-mass star formation whereby protostars are underluminous compared to theoretical expectations, we identify 230 protostars in 18 molecular clouds observed by two Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy surveys of nearby star-forming regions. We compile complete spectral energy distributions, calculate L_bol_ for each source, and study the protostellar luminosity distribution. This distribution extends over three orders of magnitude, from 0.01L_{sun}_ to 69L_{sun}_, and has a mean and median of 4.3L_{sun}_ and 1.3L_{sun}_, respectively. The distributions are very similar for Class 0 and Class I sources except for an excess of low luminosity (L_bol_<~0.5L_{sun}_) Class I sources compared to Class 0. 100 out of the 230 protostars (43%) lack any available data in the far-infrared and submillimeter (70{mu}m<{lambda}<850{mu}m) and have L_bol_ underestimated by factors of 2.5 on average, and up to factors of 8-10 in extreme cases. Correcting these underestimates for each source individually once additional data becomes available will likely increase both the mean and median of the sample by 35%-40%. We discuss and compare our results to several recent theoretical studies of protostellar luminosities and show that our new results do not invalidate the conclusions of any of these studies. As these studies demonstrate that there is more than one plausible accretion scenario that can match observations, future attention is clearly needed. The better statistics provided by our increased data set should aid such future work.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/657/A1
- Title:
- Maggie filament datacubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/657/A1
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 09:19:29
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The atomic phase of the interstellar medium plays a key role in the formation process of molecular clouds. Due to the line-of-sight confusion in the Galactic plane that is associated with its ubiquity, atomic hydrogen emission has been challenging to study. We investigate the physical properties of the "Maggie" filament, a large-scale filament identified in HI emission at line-of-sight velocities, v_LSR_~-54km/s. Employing the high-angular resolution data from The HI/OH Recombination line survey of the inner Milky Way (THOR), we have been able to study HI emission features at negative v_LSR_ velocities without any line-of-sight confusion due to the kinematic distance ambiguity in the first Galactic quadrant. In order to investigate the kinematic structure, we decomposed the emission spectra using the automated Gaussian fitting algorithm GaussPy+. We identify one of the largest, coherent, mostly atomic HI filaments in the Milky Way. The giant atomic filament Maggie, with a total length of 1.2+/-0.1kpc, is not detected in most other tracers, and it does not show signs of active star formation. At a kinematic distance of 17kpc, Maggie is situated below (by ~500pc), but parallel to, the Galactic HI disk and is trailing the predicted location of the Outer Arm by 5-10km/s in longitude-velocity space. The centroid velocity exhibits a smooth gradient of less than 3(km/s)/(10pc) and a coherent structure to within +/-6km/s. The line widths of ~10km/s along the spine of the filament are dominated by nonthermal effects. After correcting for optical depth effects, the mass of Maggie's dense spine is estimated to be 7.2x10^5^ solar masses. The mean number density of the filament is ~4cm^-3^, which is best explained by the filament being a mix of cold and warm neutral gas. In contrast to molecular filaments, the turbulent Mach number and velocity structure function suggest that Maggie is driven by transonic to moderately supersonic velocities that are likely associated with the Galactic potential rather than being subject to the effects of self-gravity or stellar feedback. The probability density function of the column density displays a log-normal shape around a mean of 4.8x10^20^cm^-2^, thus reflecting the absence of dominating effects of gravitational contraction.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/573/A34
- Title:
- Magnetic field structure around cores with VeLLOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/573/A34
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We carried out optical polarimetry of five dense cores, (IRAM 04191, L1521F, L328, L673-7, and L1014) which are found to harbour very low luminosity objects (VeLLOs; Lint<~0.1L_{sun}_). This study was conducted mainly to understand the role played by the magnetic field in the formation of very low and substellar mass range objects. Light from the stars, while passing through the dust grains that are aligned with their short axis parallel to an external magnetic field, becomes linearly polarised. The polarisation position angles measured for the stars can provide the plane-of-the sky magnetic field orientation. Because the light in the optical wavelength range is most efficiently polarised by the dust grains typically found at the outer layers of the molecular clouds, optical polarimetry mostly traces the magnetic field orientation of the core envelope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/140
- Title:
- MALT90 kinematic distances to molecular clumps
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/140
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using molecular-line data from the Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz Survey (MALT90), we have estimated kinematic distances to 1905 molecular clumps identified in the ATLASGAL 870 {mu}m continuum survey over the longitude range 295{deg}<l<350{deg}. The clump velocities were determined using a flux-weighted average of the velocities obtained from Gaussian fits to the HCO^+^, HNC, and N_2_H^+^ (1-0) transitions. The near/far kinematic distance ambiguity was addressed by searching for the presence or absence of absorption or self-absorption features in 21 cm atomic hydrogen spectra from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey. Our algorithm provides an estimation of the reliability of the ambiguity resolution. The Galactic distribution of the clumps indicates positions where the clumps are bunched together, and these locations probably trace the locations of spiral arms. Several clumps fall at the predicted location of the far side of the Scutum-Centaurus arm. Moreover, a number of clumps with positive radial velocities are unambiguously located on the far side of the Milky Way at galactocentric radii beyond the solar circle. The measurement of these kinematic distances, in combination with continuum or molecular-line data, now enables the determination of fundamental parameters such as mass, size, and luminosity for each clump.
330. MALT90 pilot survey
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/197/25
- Title:
- MALT90 pilot survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/197/25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a pilot survey conducted with the Mopra 22m radio telescope in preparation for the Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team Survey at 90GHz (MALT90). We identified 182 candidate dense molecular clumps using six different selection criteria and mapped each source simultaneously in 16 different lines near 90GHz. We present a summary of the data and describe how the results of the pilot survey shaped the design of the larger MALT90 survey. We motivate our selection of target sources for the main survey based on the pilot detection rates and demonstrate the value of mapping in multiple lines simultaneously at high spectral resolution.
