The Violent Interstellar Medium in the Giant HII Region 30 Doradus

Details The Violent Interstellar Medium in the Giant HII Region 30 Doradus The Violent Interstellar Medium in the Giant HII Region 30 Doradus

Aug 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996agab...12..207c&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, 12, 207

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Large Magellanic Cloud, Ism, Stellar Winds, 30 Doradus, Hodge 301

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The giant HII region 30 Doradus shows prominent filaments of ionized gas, bright diffuse X-ray emission, and violent internal gas motions. These features indicate the prevalence of interstellar shocks produced by fast stellar winds and supernova blasts. 30 Dor contains two clusters: the populous young cluster R 136 and the older cluster Hodge 301. The R 136 cluster, being only 3-4 million years old, should still have all its massive stars. Its most massive stars would be interacting with the ambient interstellar medium via copious stellar winds. The Hodge 301 cluster, being nearly 20 million years old, has lost its most massive stars. The remaining stars are not powerful sources of stellar winds, so the cluster has been interacting with the ambient medium mostly through occasional supernova blasts. The interstellar gas around these two clusters offers a unique opportunity for us to study a wind-dominated interaction and a supernova-dominated interaction in a giant HII region. We have obtained proprietary and archival HST WFPC2 images, ROSAT X-ray observations, and high-resolution echelle spectra of 30 Dor in the vicinity of R 136 as well as Hodge 301. These data are used to map the distribution of high velocity gas and to determine the origin of interstellar shocks. We show that the kinematic signatures of wind-dominated shocks and supernova remnant shocks are distinctly different. The most violent motion in 30 Dor is associated with the older cluster Hodge 301. Clearly, star formation in 30 Dor is not coeval; while the younger cluster is responsible for the ionization of the interstellar gas, the older cluster is responsible for the violent interstellar motion. If 30 Dor represents a miniature but typical starburst situation, these results must be taken into account when studying distant, unresolved starburst phenomena.

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