The 30 Doradus Molecular Cloud at 0.4 pc Resolution with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array: Physical Properties and the Boundedness of CO-emitting Structures
| Autor: | Tony Wong, Luuk Oudshoorn, Eliyahu Sofovich, Alex Green, Charmi Shah, Rémy Indebetouw, Margaret Meixner, Alvaro Hacar, Omnarayani Nayak, Kazuki Tokuda, Alberto D. Bolatto, Mélanie Chevance, Guido De Marchi, Yasuo Fukui, Alec S. Hirschauer, K. E. Jameson, Venu Kalari, Vianney Lebouteiller, Leslie W. Looney, Suzanne C. Madden, Toshikazu Onishi, Julia Roman-Duval, Mónica Rubio, A. G. G. M. Tielens |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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[SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Astrophysics - astrophysics of galaxies FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Millimeter astronomy Star forming regions [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] Interstellar medium Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) Magellanic clouds Giant molecular clouds |
| Zdroj: | The Astrophysical Journal, 932(1):47 The Astrophysical Journal The Astrophysical Journal, 2022, 932, ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ac723a⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1538-4357 0004-637X |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ac723a |
| Popis: | We present results of a wide-field (approximately 60 x 90 pc) ALMA mosaic of CO(2-1) and $^{13}$CO(2-1) emission from the molecular cloud associated with the 30 Doradus star-forming region. Three main emission complexes, including two forming a bowtie-shaped structure extending northeast and southwest from the central R136 cluster, are resolved into complex filamentary networks. Consistent with previous studies, we find that the central region of the cloud has higher line widths at fixed size relative to the rest of the molecular cloud and to other LMC clouds, indicating an enhanced level of turbulent motions. However, there is no clear trend in gravitational boundedness (as measured by the virial parameter) with distance from R136. Structures observed in $^{13}$CO are spatially coincident with filaments and are close to a state of virial equilibrium. In contrast, CO structures vary greatly in virialization, with low CO surface brightness structures outside of the main filamentary network being predominantly unbound. The low surface brightness structures constitute ~10% of the measured CO luminosity; they may be shredded remnants of previously star-forming gas clumps, or alternatively the CO-emitting parts of more massive, CO-dark structures. 24 pages; published in ApJ on 15 Jun 2022; associated data can be found at https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-1671495_V1 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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