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RCW 36 in the Vela Molecular Ridge: Evidence for a high-mass star cluster formation triggered by Cloud-Cloud Collision | | Hidetoshi Sano
; Rei Enokiya
; Katsuhiro Hayashi
; Mitsuyoshi Yamagishi
; Shun Saeki
; Kazuki Okawa
; Kisetsu Tsuge
; Daichi Tsutsumi
; Mikito Khono
; Yusuke Hattori
; Satoshi Yoshiike
; Shinji Fujita
; Atsushi Nishimura
; Akio Ohama
; Kengo Tachihara
; Kazufumi Torii
; Yutaka Hasegawa
; Kimihiro Kimura
; Hideo Ogawa
; Graeme F. Wong
; Catherine Braiding
; Gavin Rowell
; Michael G. Burton
; Yasuo Fukui
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19 Jun 2017 | | Abstract: | A collision between two molecular clouds is one possible candidate for
high-mass star formation. The HII region RCW~36, located in the Vela molecular
ridge, contains a young star cluster with two O-type stars. We present new CO
observations of RCW~36 with NANTEN2, Mopra, and ASTE using $^{12}$CO($J$ = 1-0,
2-1, 3-2) and $^{13}$CO($J$ = 2-1) line emissions. We have discovered two
molecular clouds lying at the velocities $V_mathrm{LSR} sim$5.5 and 9 km
s$^{-1}$. Both clouds are likely to be physically associated with the star
cluster, as verified by the good spatial correspondence among the two clouds,
infrared filaments, and the star cluster. We also found a high intensity ratio
of $sim$0.6-1.2 for CO $J$ = 3-2 / 1-0 toward both clouds, indicating that the
gas temperature has been increased due to heating by the O-type stars. We
propose that RCW~36 and its star cluster were formed by a collision between the
two clouds, with a relative velocity separation of 5 km s$^{-1}$. The
complementary spatial distributions and the velocity separation of the two
clouds are in good agreement with observational signatures expected for O-type
star formation triggered by a cloud-cloud collision. We also found a
displacement between the complementary spatial distributions of the two clouds,
which we estimate to be 0.85 pc assuming the collision angle to be 45$^{circ}$
relative to the line-of-sight. We estimate the collision timescale to be
$sim$0.2 Myr, which is roughly consistent with the cluster age derived from
the H-R diagram, assuming a distance of 1.9 kpc. | | Source: | arXiv, 1706.5763 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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