- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/570/A65
- Title:
- ATLASGAL massive clumps CO depletion
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/570/A65
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the low-mass regime, molecular cores have spatially resolved temperature and density profiles allowing a detailed study of their chemical properties. It is found that the gas-phase abundances of C-bearing molecules in cold starless cores rapidly decrease with increasing density. Here the molecules tend to stick to the grains, forming ice mantles. We study CO depletion in a large sample of massive clumps, and investigate its correlation with evolutionary stage and with the physical parameters of the sources. Moreover, we study the gradients in [^12^C]/[^13^C] and [^18^O]/[^17^O] isotopic ratios across the inner Galaxy, and the virial stability of the clumps. From the ATLASGAL 870{mu}m survey we selected 102 clumps, which have masses in the range ~10^2^-3x10^4^M_{sun}_, sampling different evolutionary stages. We use low-J emission lines of CO isotopologues and the dust continuum emission to infer the depletion factor f_D_. RATRAN one-dimensional models were also used to determine f_D_ and to investigate the presence of depletion above a density threshold. The isotopic ratios and optical depth were derived with a Bayesian approach. We find a significant number of clumps with a high degree of CO depletion, up to ~20. Larger values are found for colder clumps, thus for earlier evolutionary phases. For massive clumps in the earliest stages of evolution we estimate the radius of the region where CO depletion is important to be a few tenths of a pc. The value of the [^12^C]/[^13^C] ratio is found to increase with distance from the Galactic centre, with a value of ~66+/-12 for the solar neighbourhood. The [^18^O]/[^17^O] ratio is approximately constant (~4) across the inner Galaxy between 2kpc and 8kpc, albeit with a large range (~2-6). Clumps are found with total masses derived from dust continuum emission up to ~20 times higher than M_vir_, especially among the less evolved sources. These large values may in part be explained by the presence of depletion: if the CO emission comes mainly from the low-density outer layers, the molecules may be subthermally excited, leading to an overestimate of the dust masses. CO depletion in high-mass clumps seems to behave as in the low-mass regime, with less evolved clumps showing larger values for the depletion than their more evolved counterparts, and increasing for denser sources. The ratios [^12^C]/[^13^C] and [^18^O]/[^17^O] are consistent with previous determinations, and show a large intrinsic scatter.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/599/A139
- Title:
- ATLASGAL massive clumps dust characterization
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/599/A139
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ATLASGAL survey provides an ideal basis for detailed studies of large numbers of massive star forming clumps covering the whole range of evolutionary stages. The ATLASGAL Top100 is a sample of clumps selected from their infrared and radio properties to be representative for the whole range of evolutionary stages. The ATLASGAL Top100 sources are the focus of a number of detailed follow-up studies that will be presented in a series of papers. In the present work we use the dust continuum emission to constrain the physical properties of this sample and identify trends as a function of source evolution. We determine flux densities from mid-infrared to submm wavelength (8-870micron) images and use these values to fit their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and determine their dust temperature and flux. Combining these with recent distances from the literature including maser parallax measurements we determine clump masses, luminosities and column densities. We find trends for increasing temperature, luminosity and column density with the proposed evolution sequence, confirming that this sample is representative of different evolutionary stages of massive star formation. We show that most of the sample has the ability to form massive stars (including the most massive O-type stars) and that the majority is gravitationally unstable and hence likely to be collapsing. The highest column density ATLASGAL sources presented cover the whole range of evolutionary stages from the youngest to the most evolved high-mass star forming clumps. Their study provides a unique starting point for more in-depth research on massive star formation in four distinct evolutionary stages whose well defined physical parameters afford more detailed studies. As most of the sample is closer than 5kpc, these sources are also ideal for follow-up observations with high spatial resolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/611/A6
- Title:
- ATLASGAL massive clumps H_2_CO data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/611/A6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Formaldehyde (H_2_CO) is a reliable tracer to accurately measure the physical parameters of dense gas in star-forming regions. We aim to determine directly the kinetic temperature and spatial density with formaldehyde for the ~100 brightest ATLASGAL-selected clumps (the TOP100 sample) at 870um representing various evolutionary stages of high-mass star formation. Ten transitions (J=3-2 and 4-3) of ortho- and para-H2CO near 211, 218, 225, and 291GHz were observed with the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) 12m telescope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/601/A60
- Title:
- ATLASGAL: Massive cluster progenitors sample
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/601/A60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The progenitors of high-mass stars and clusters are still challenging to recognise. Only unbiased surveys, sensitive to compact regions of high dust column density, can unambiguously reveal such a small population of particularly massive and cold clumps. Here we use the ATLASGAL survey to identify a sample of candidate progenitors of massive clusters in the inner Galaxy. We characterise a flux limited sample of compact sources selected from the ATLASGAL survey. Sensitive mid-infrared data at 21-24um from the WISE and MIPSGAL surveys were explored to search for embedded objects, and complementary spectroscopic data were used to investigate their stability and their star formation activity. We identify an unbiased sample of infrared-quiet massive clumps in the Galaxy that potentially represent the earliest stages of massive cluster formation. An important fraction of this sample consists of sources that have not been studied in detail before. We first find that clumps hosting more evolved embedded objects and infrared-quiet clumps exhibit similar physical properties in terms of mass and size, suggesting that the sources are not only capable of forming high-mass stars, but likely also follow a single evolutionary track leading to the formation of massive clusters. The majority of the clumps are likely not in virial-equilibrium, suggesting collapse on the clump scale.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/443/1555
- Title:
- ATLASGAL massive star forming clumps sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/443/1555
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- By matching infrared-selected, massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) and compact HII regions in the Red MSX Source survey to massive clumps found in the submillimetre ATLASGAL (APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy) survey, we have identified ~1000 embedded young massive stars between 280{deg}<l<350{deg} and 10{deg}<l<60{deg} with |b|<1.5{deg}. Combined with an existing sample of radio-selected methanol masers and compact HII regions, the result is a catalogue of ~1700 massive stars embedded within ~1300 clumps located across the inner Galaxy, containing three observationally distinct subsamples, methanol-maser, MYSO and HII-region associations, covering the most important tracers of massive star formation, thought to represent key stages of evolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/400
- Title:
- ATLASGAL. Properties of compact HII regions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/435/400
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a complete sample of molecular clumps containing compact and ultracompact HII (UC HII) regions between l=10{deg} and 60{deg} and |b|<1{deg}, identified by combining the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy submm and CORNISH radio continuum surveys with visual examination of archival infrared data. Our sample is complete to optically thin, compact and UC HII regions driven by a zero-age main-sequence star of spectral type B0 or earlier embedded within a 1000M_{sun}_ clump. In total we identify 213 compact and UC HII regions, associated with 170 clumps. Unambiguous kinematic distances are derived for these clumps and used to estimate their masses and physical sizes, as well as the Lyman continuum fluxes and sizes of their embedded HII regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/644/A160
- Title:
- ATLASGAL-selected massive clumps. Chemistry of PDR
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/644/A160
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study ten molecular transitions obtained from an unbiased 3mm molecular line survey using the IRAM 30m telescope toward 409 compact dust clumps identified by the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) to better understand the photodissociation regions (PDRs) associated with these clumps. The main goal of this study is to investigate whether the abundances of the selected molecules show any variations resulting from the PDR chemistry in different clump environments. We selected HCO, HOC^+^, C_2_H, c-C_3_H_2_, CN, H^13^CN, HC^15^N, and HN^13^C as PDR tracers, and H^13^CO^+^ and C^18^O as dense gas tracers. By using estimated optical depths of C_2_H and H^13^CN and assuming optically thin emission for other molecular transitions, we derived the column densities of those molecules and their abundances. To assess the influence of the presence and strength of ultra- violet radiation, we compare abundances of three groups of the clumps: HII regions, infrared bright non-HII regions, and infrared dark non-HII regions. We detected C^18^O, H^13^CO^+^, C_2_H, c-C_3_H_2_, CN, and HN^13^C toward most of the observed dust clumps (detection rate >94%), and H^13^CN is also detected with a detection rate of 75%. On the other hand, HCO and HC^15^N show detection rates of 32% and 39%, respectively, toward the clumps, which are mostly associated with HII region sources: Detection rates of HCO and HC^15^N toward the HII regions are 66% and 79%. We find that the abundances of HCO, CN, C_2_H, and c-C_3_H_2_ decrease as the H_2_ column density increases, indicating high visual extinction, while those of high-density tracers (i.e., H^13^CO^+^ and HC^15^N) are constant. In addition, N(HCO)/N(H^13^CO^+^) ratios significantly decrease as H_2_ column density increases, and, in particular, 82 clumps have X(HCO)>=10^-10^ and N(HCO)/N(H^13^CO^+^)>~1, which are indications of far-ultraviolet (FUV) chemistry. This suggests the observed HCO abundances are likely associated with FUV radiation illuminating the PDRs. We also find that high N(c-C_3_H_2_)/N(C_2_H) ratios found for HII regions that have high HCO abundances (>~10^-10^) are associated with more evolved clumps with high L_bol_/M_clump_. This trend might be associated with gain-surface processes, which determine the initial abundances of these molecules, and time-dependent effects in the clumps corresponding to the envelopes around dense PDRs and HII regions. In addition, some fraction of the measured abundances of the small hydrocarbons of the HII sources may be the result of the photodissociation of PAH molecules.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/441/2555
- Title:
- ATLAS 1.4GHz Data Release 2
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/441/2555
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the first of two papers describing the second data release (DR2) of the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey at 1.4GHz, which comprises deep wide-field observations in total intensity, linear polarization, and circular polarization over the Chandra Deep Field-South and European Large Area Infrared Space Observatory Survey-South 1 regions. DR2 improves upon the first data release by maintaining consistent data reductions across the two regions, including polarization analysis, and including differential number counts in total intensity and linear polarization. Typical DR2 sensitivities across the mosaicked multipointing images are 30{mu}Jy/beam at approximately 12"x6" resolution over a combined area of 6.4deg^2^. In this paper we present detailed descriptions of our data reduction and analysis procedures, including corrections for instrumental effects such as positional variations in image sensitivity, bandwidth smearing with a non-circular beam, and polarization leakage, and application of the BLOBCAT source extractor. We present the DR2 images and catalogues of components (discrete regions of radio emission) and sources (groups of physically associated radio components). We describe new analytic methods to account for resolution bias and Eddington bias when constructing differential number counts of radio components.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/4020
- Title:
- ATLAS 1.4GHz Data Release 3
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/453/4020
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the third data release from the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey. These data combine the observations at 1.4GHz before and after upgrades to the Australia Telescope Compact Array reaching a sensitivity of 14{mu}Jy/beam in 3.6 deg^2^ over the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) and of 17{mu}Jy/beam in 2.7 deg^2^ over the European Large Area ISO Survey South 1 (ELAIS-S1). We used a variety of array configurations to maximize the uv coverage resulting in a resolution of 16 by 7-arcsec in CDFS and of 12 by 8-arcsec in ELAIS-S1. After correcting for peak bias and bandwidth smearing, we find a total of 3034 radio source components above 5{sigma} in CDFS, of which 514 (17 per cent) are considered to be extended. The number of components detected above 5{sigma} in ELAIS-S1 is 2084, of which 392 (19 per cent) are classified as extended. The catalogues include reliable spectral indices ({Delta}{alpha}<0.2) between 1.40 and 1.71GHz for ~350 of the brightest components.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/544/A38
- Title:
- ATLAS 2.3GHz observations of ELAIS-S1 and CDF-S
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/544/A38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) aims to image a 7deg^2^ region centred on the European Large Area ISO Survey - South 1 (ELAIS-S1) field and the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) at 1.4GHz with high sensitivity (up to {sigma}~10uJy) to study the evolution of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) over a wide range of cosmic time. We present here ancillary radio observations at a frequency of 2.3GHz obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The main goal of this is to study the radio spectra of an unprecedented large sample of sources (~2000 observed, ~600 detected in both frequencies).
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