UNVEILING A NETWORK OF PARALLEL FILAMENTS IN THE INFRARED DARK CLOUD G14.225-0.506

被引：88

作者：

Busquet, Gemma ^{[1
,2
]}

Zhang, Qizhou ^{[3
]}

Palau, Aina ^{[4
]}

Liu, Hauyu Baobab ^{[5
]}

Sanchez-Monge, Alvaro ^{[6
]}

Estalella, Robert ^{[2
]}

Ho, Paul T. P. ^{[3
,5
]}

de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Itziar ^{[7
,8
]}

Pillai, Thushara ^{[9
]}

Wyrowski, Friedrich ^{[10
]}

Girart, Josep M. ^{[4
]}

Santos, Fabio P. ^{[11
]}

Franco, Gabriel A. P. ^{[11
]}

机构：

[1] INAF Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, I-00133 Rome, Italy

[2] Univ Barcelona IEEC UB, Dept Astron & Meteorol, ICC, E-08028 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

[3] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[4] Inst Ciencies Espai CSIC IEEC, Fac Ciencies, E-08193 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

[5] Acad Sinica, Inst Astron & Astrophys, Taipei 115, Taiwan

[6] Osserv Astrofis Arcetri, INAF, I-05125 Florence, Italy

[7] European So Observ, D-85748 Garching, Germany

[8] Join ALMA Observ, Santiago, Chile

[9] CALTECH, Dept Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[10] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

[11] Dept Fis ICEx UFMG, BR-30123970 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS | 2013年 / 764卷 / 02期

关键词：

ISM: clouds; ISM: individual objects (G14.225-0.506); stars: formation; MASSIVE STAR-FORMATION; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; CORE FORMATION; H2O MASERS; FRAGMENTATION; NH3; REGIONS; GAS; CS;

D O I：

10.1088/2041-8205/764/2/L26

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We present the results of combined NH3 (1,1) and (2,2) line emission observed with the Very Large Array and the Effelsberg 100 m telescope of the infrared dark cloud G14.225-0.506. The NH3 emission reveals a network of filaments constituting two hub-filament systems. Hubs are associated with gas of rotational temperature T-rot similar to 15 K, non-thermal velocity dispersion sigma(NT) similar to 1 km s(-1), and exhibit signs of star formation, while filaments appear to be more quiescent (T-rot similar to 11 K and sigma(NT) similar to 0.6 km s(-1)). Filaments are parallel in projection and distributed mainly along two directions, at P.A. similar to 10 degrees and 60 degrees, and appear to be coherent in velocity. The averaged projected separation between adjacent filaments is between 0.5 pc and 1 pc, and the mean width of filaments is 0.12 pc. Cores within filaments are separated by similar to 0.33 +/- 0.09 pc, which is consistent with the predicted fragmentation of an isothermal gas cylinder due to the "sausage"-type instability. The network of parallel filaments observed in G14.225-0.506 is consistent with the gravitational instability of a thin gas layer threaded by magnetic fields. Overall, our data suggest that magnetic fields might play an important role in the alignment of filaments, and polarization measurements in the entire cloud would lend further support to this scenario.

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