ALMA View of G0.253+0.016: Can Cloud-Cloud Collision form the Cloud?
Abstract
We present the results of the sulfur monoxide, SO, line emission observations of G0.253+0.016 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array at an angular resolution of 1.''7. The dense and massive molecular cloud of G0.253+0.016 is highly sub-structured, yet it shows no obvious signs of cluster formation. We found three outstanding features of the cloud from the SO emission, namely, shell structure with a radius of 1.3 pc, large velocity gradients of 20 km s-1 pc-1 with the cloud, and cores with large velocity dispersions (30-40 km s-1) around the shell structure. We suggest that these large-velocity dispersion cores will form high-mass stars in the future. In an attempt to explore the formation scenario of the dense cloud, we compared our results with numerical simulations; therefore, we propose that G0.253+0.016 may have formed due to a cloud-cloud collision process.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- June 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1403.4734
- Bibcode:
- 2014AJ....147..141H
- Keywords:
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- ISM: kinematics and dynamics;
- ISM: molecules;
- ISM: structure;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 16 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal