- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/149
- Title:
- Vilnius photometry in IC 59 and IC 63
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/149
- Date:
- 20 Jan 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Optical and infrared continuum polarization from the interstellar medium is driven by radiative processes aligning the grains with the magnetic field. While a quantitative, predictive theory of radiative alignment torques (RATs) exists and has been extensively tested, several parameters of the theory remain to be fully constrained. In a recent paper, Medan & Andersson showed that the polarization efficiency (and therefore grain alignment efficiency) at different locations in the wall of the Local Bubble (LB) could be modeled as proportional to the integrated light intensity from the surrounding stars and OB associations. Here we probe that relationship at high radiation field intensities by studying the extinction and polarization in the two reflection nebulae IC59 and IC63 in the Sh2-185 HII region, illuminated by the B0 IV star {gamma}Cassiopeia. We combine archival visual polarimetry with new seven-band photometry in the Vilnius system, to derive the polarization efficiency from the material. We find that the same linear relationship seen in the LB wall also applies to the Sh2-185 region, strengthening the conclusion from the earlier study.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/846/144
- Title:
- Virial analysis of the dense cores in Orion A
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/846/144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use data on gas temperature and velocity dispersion from the Green Bank Ammonia Survey and core masses and sizes from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Gould Belt Survey to estimate the virial states of dense cores within the Orion A molecular cloud. Surprisingly, we find that almost none of the dense cores are sufficiently massive to be bound when considering only the balance between self-gravity and the thermal and non-thermal motions present in the dense gas. Including the additional pressure binding imposed by the weight of the ambient molecular cloud material and additional smaller pressure terms, however, suggests that most of the dense cores are pressure-confined.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/704/842
- Title:
- VIRUS-P spectroscopy of NGC 5194
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/704/842
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the relation between the star formation rate (SFR) surface density ({Sigma}_SFR_) and the mass surface density of gas ({Sigma}_gas_) in NGC 5194 (a.k.a. M51a, Whirlpool Galaxy). Visible Integral field Replicable Unit Spectrograph Prototype (VIRUS-P) integral field spectroscopy of the central 4.1x4.1kpc^2^ of the galaxy is used to measure H{alpha}, H{beta}, [OIII]5007, [NII]6548,6584, and [SII]6717,6731 emission line fluxes for 735 regions ~170pc in diameter. We use the Balmer decrement to calculate nebular dust extinctions, and correct the observed fluxes in order to accurately measure {Sigma}_SFR_ in each region. Archival HI 21cm and CO maps with spatial resolution similar to that of VIRUS-P are used to measure the atomic and molecular gas surface density for each region.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/858/111
- Title:
- Visible obs. of GOT C+ Northern sightlines
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/858/111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using visible, radio, microwave, and submillimeter data, we study several lines of sight toward stars generally closer than 1kpc on a component-by-component basis. We derive the component structure seen in absorption at visible wavelengths from CaII, CaI, KI, CH, CH+, and CN and compare it to emission from HI, CO and its isotopologues, and C+ from the GOT C+ (Galactic Observations of Terahertz C+) survey (Langer+ 2010A&A...521L..17L). The correspondence between components in emission and absorption helps create a more unified picture of diffuse atomic and molecular gas in the interstellar medium. We also discuss how these tracers are related to the CO-dark H2 gas probed by C+ emission and discuss the kinematic connections among the species observed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/699/186
- Title:
- VLA observations of the Galactic center
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/699/186
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new results based on high-resolution observations of Sgr A West at the Galactic center with the Very Large Array (VLA) at 1.3cm. By combining recent observations with those made at earlier epochs with the VLA at wavelengths of 1.3 and 3.6cm, we measured proper motions for 71 compact HII components in the central 80" (3pc, assuming D=8pc). Using VLA archival data for the H92{alpha} radio recombination line, we also investigated radial velocities in the LSR velocity range from +200 to -415km/s. Combining proper motion and radial velocity measurements, we have determined the three-dimensional velocity distribution in Sgr A West.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/749/47
- Title:
- VLBA 22.2GHz H_2_O maser features in G28.87+0.07
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/749/47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We used the Very Long Baseline Array and the European VLBI Network to perform phase-referenced very long baseline interferometry observations of the three most powerful maser transitions associated with the high-mass star-forming region G28.87+0.07: the 22.2GHz H_2_O, 6.7GHz CH_3_OH, and 1.665GHz OH lines. We also performed Very Large Array (VLA) observations of the radio continuum emission at 1.3 and 3.6cm and Subaru observations of the continuum emission at 24.5{mu}m. Two centimeter-continuum sources are detected and one of them (named hot molecular core (HMC)) is compact and placed at the center of the observed distribution of H_2_O, CH_3_OH, and OH masers. The bipolar distribution of line-of-sight velocities and the pattern of the proper motions suggest that the water masers are driven by a (proto)stellar jet interacting with the dense circumstellar gas. The same jet could both excite the centimeter-continuum source named HMC (interpreted as free-free emission from shocked gas) and power the molecular outflow observed at larger scales--although one cannot exclude that the free-free continuum is rather originating from a hypercompact H II region. At 24.5{mu}m, we identify two objects separated along the north-south direction, whose absolute positions agree with those of the two VLA continuum sources. We establish that ~90% of the luminosity of the region (~2x10^5^L_{sun}_) is coming from the radio source HMC, which confirms the existence of an embedded massive young stellar object exciting the masers and possibly still undergoing heavy accretion from the surrounding envelope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/783/1
- Title:
- VRI and H polarization toward Sh 2-29
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/783/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Sh 2-29 is a conspicuous star-forming region marked by the presence of massive embedded stars as well as several notable interstellar structures. In this research, our goals were to determine the role of magnetic fields and to study the size distribution of interstellar dust particles within this turbulent environment. We have used a set of optical and near-infrared polarimetric data obtained at OPD/LNA (Brazil) and CTIO (Chile), correlated with extinction maps, Two Micron All Sky Survey data, and images from the Digitized Sky Survey and Spitzer. The region's most striking feature is a swept out interstellar cavity whose polarimetric maps indicate that magnetic field lines were dragged outward, piling up along its borders. This led to a higher magnetic strength value ({approx}400{mu}G) and an abrupt increase in polarization degree, probably due to an enhancement in alignment efficiency. Furthermore, dense cloud fragmentations with peak A_V_ between 20 and 37mag were probably triggered by its expansion. The presence of 24{mu}m point-like sources indicates possible newborn stars inside this dense environment. A statistical analysis of the angular dispersion function revealed areas where field lines are aligned in a well-ordered pattern, seemingly due to compression effects from the HII region expansion. Finally, Serkowski function fits were used to study the ratio of the total-to-selective extinction, revealing a dual population of anomalous grain particle sizes. This trend suggests that both effects of coagulation and fragmentation of interstellar grains are present in the region.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/588/A131
- Title:
- Warm ISM in the Sagittarius A Complex
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/588/A131
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the spatial and spectral distribution of the local standard of rest (LSR) velocity resolved submillimetre emission from the warm (25-90K) gas in the Sgr A Complex, located in the Galactic centre. We present large-scale submillimetre heterodyne observations towards the Sgr A Complex covering ~300-arcmin2. These data were obtained in the frame of the Herschel EXtraGALactic guaranteed time key program (HEXGAL) with the Herschel-HIFI satellite and are complemented with submillimetre observations obtained with the NANTEN2/SMART telescope as part of the NANTEN2/SMART Central Nuclear Zone Survey. The observed species are CO(J=4-3) at 461.0GHz observed with the NANTEN2/SMART telescope, and [CI] 3P1-3P0 at 492.2GHz, [CI] 3P2-3P1 at 809.3GHz, [NII] 3P1-3P0 at 1461.1GHz, and [CII] 2P3/2-2P1/2 at 1900.5GHz observed with the Herschel-HIFI satellite. The observations are presented in a 1km/s spectral resolution and a spatial resolution ranging from 46-arcsec to 28-arcsec. The spectral coverage of the three lower frequency lines is +/-200km/s, while in the two high frequency lines, the upper LSR velocity limit is +94km/s and +145km/s for the [NII] and [CII] lines, respectively. The spatial distribution of the emission in all lines is very widespread. The bulk of the carbon monoxide emission is found towards Galactic latitudes below the Galactic plane, and all the known molecular clouds are identified. Both neutral atomic carbon lines have their brightest emission associated with the +50km/s cloud. Their spatial distribution at this LSR velocity describes a crescent-shape structure, which is probably the result of interaction with the energetic event (one or several supernovae explosions) that gave origin to the non-thermal Sgr A-East source. The [CII] and [NII] emissions have most of their flux associated with the thermal arched-filaments and the H region and bright spots in [CII] emission towards the central nuclear disk (CND) are detected. Warm Gas at very high (|Vlsr|>100km/s) LSR velocities is also detected towards the line of sight to the Sgr A Complex, and it is most probably located outside the region, in the X1 orbits.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/669/959
- Title:
- Warm molecular hydrogen in SINGS galaxy sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/669/959
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results on the properties of warm molecular hydrogen in 57 normal galaxies are derived from measurements of H_2_ rotational transitions, obtained as part of SINGS. This study extends previous extragalactic surveys of emission lines of H_2_ to fainter and more common systems (LFIR = 10^7^-6x10^10^L_{sun}_). The 17um S(1) transition is securely detected in the nuclear regions of 86% of galaxies with stellar masses above 10^9.5^M_{sun}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/766/114
- Title:
- Water and methanol masers in G75.78+0.34
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/766/114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present subarcsecond observations toward the massive star-forming region G75.78+0.34. We used the Very Large Array to study the centimeter continuum and H_2_O and CH_3_OH maser emission, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Submillimeter Array to study the millimeter continuum and recombination lines (H40{alpha} and H30{alpha}). We found radio continuum emission at all wavelengths, coming from three components: (1) a cometary ultracompact (UC) H II region with an electron density ~3.7x10^4^/cm3, excited by a B0 type star, and with no associated dust emission; (2) an almost unresolved UCH II region (EAST), located ~6" to the east of the cometary UCH II region, with an electron density ~1.3x10^5^/cm3, and associated with a compact dust clump detected at millimeter and mid-infrared wavelengths; and (3) a compact source (CORE), located ~2" to the southwest of the cometary arc, with a flux density increasing with frequency, and embedded in a dust condensation of 30M_{sun}_. The CORE source is resolved into two compact and unresolved sources which can be well fit by two homogeneous hypercompact H II regions each one photoionized by a B0.5 zero-age main sequence star, or by free-free radiation from shock-ionized gas resulting from the interaction of a jet/outflow system with the surrounding environment. The spatial distribution and kinematics of water masers close to the CORE-N and S sources, together with excess emission at 4.5{mu}m and the detected dust emission, suggest that the CORE source is a massive protostar driving a jet/outflow.
