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The Multi-Phase Medium in the Interstellar Complex N44 | | Sungeun Kim
; You-Hua Chu
; Lister Staveley-Smith
; R.Chris Smith
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19 Aug 1998 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 503 (1998) 729 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | We have obtained high-resolution HI observations of N44, one of the largest HII complexes in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The distribution and internal motions of the HI gas show dynamic effects of fast stellar winds and supernova blasts. Numerous HI holes are detected, with the most prominent two corresponding to the optically identified superbubbles Shell 1 and Shell 2. The HI gas associated with Shell 1 shows an expansion pattern similar to that of the ionized gas shell, but the mass and kinetic energy of the HI shell are 3--7 times those of the ionized gas shell. The total kinetic energy of the neutral and ionized gas of Shell 1 is still more than a factor of 5 lower than expected in a pressure-driven superbubble. It is possible that the central OB association was formed in a molecular cloud and a visible superbubble was not fully developed until the ambient molecular gas had been dissociated and cleared away. This hypothesis is supported by the existence of a molecular cloud toward N44 and the fact that the apparent dynamic age of the superbubble Shell 1 is much shorter than the age of its OB association LH47. Accelerated HI gas is detected at the supernova remnant 0523-679. The mass and kinetic energy in the associated HI gas are also much higher than those in the ionized gas of 0523-679. Studies of interstellar gas dynamics using ionized gas alone are clearly inadequate; neutral gas components must be included. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9808189 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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