Molecular Clouds Around a Run-away O Star, zeta Oph

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2000-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007145v1

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Molecular clouds around a run-away O star z Oph have been surveyed with NANTEN telescope and their streaming motion caused by z Oph has been detected. z Oph is the earliest member of the Sco OB2 association and is a runaway star rapidly moving with an HII region, S27. We detected 2 major filamentary cloud complexes; one including L156 (L156 complex) is lying across nearly the center of S27, and the other one (L204 complex) is located near the eastern edge of S27. Total masses of them traced by the 12CO are 520 Mo and 1110 Mo, respectively. Denser cloud cores detected in C18O are locally distributed on the near side of the L204 complex to z Oph, and lower density gas traced by 12CO spreads toward the opposite side. Both complexes have radial velocity shifts that are correlated with the gas density. These spatial and velocity structures can be interpreted as follows; (1) the L156 complex is stuck on the expanding Stromgrem sphere and has been accelerated, (2) the gas in L204 complex was compressed and has also been accelerated outward by z Oph, resulting the radial velocity shifts of diffuse low-density gas relative to the dense cores embedded in the clouds. These density and velocity structures indicate dynamical interaction between the HII region and the molecular clouds. The cloud complexes are divided into 7 clouds by intensity distributions. In order to investigate the acceleration mechanism, we calculated momentum and kinetic energy for each cloud. They range from 60 to 800 Mo km/s and from 0.9 to 21 times 10^45 erg, respectively. We examined the effects of the stellar wind and photo evaporation by UV field of z Oph and found that the stellar wind can hardly input the momentum during the crossing time of the movement of z Oph. UV radiation seems to be a more likely origin of the streaming gas motion.

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