Submillimeter and molecular views of three Galactic ring-like HII regions

Details Submillimeter and molecular views of three Galactic ring-like HII regions Submillimeter and molecular views of three Galactic ring-like HII regions

2011-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/1103.1915v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

27 pages, 24 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication by The Astronomical Journal

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We use SCUBA 850 micron and CO observations to analyze the surroundings of three Galactic ring-like HII regions, KR 7, KR 81, and KR 120 (Sh 2-124, Sh 2-165 and Sh 2-187), with the aim of finding sites of triggered star formation. We find one prominent submillimeter (sub-mm) source for each region, located at the interface between the HII region and its neutral surroundings. Using Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry, we find that the prominent sub-mm source for KR 120 probably contains an embedded cluster of young stellar objects (YSOs), making it a likely site for triggered star formation. The KR 7 sub-mm source could possibly contain embedded YSOs, while the KR 81 sub-mm source likely does not. The mass column densities for these dominant sub-mm sources fall in the ~0.1-0.6 g cm^{-2} range. The mass of the cold, dense material (clumps) seen as the three dominant sub-mm sources fall around ~100 Solar masses. We use the SCUBA Legacy catalog to characterize the populations of sub-mm sources around the HII regions, and compare them to the sources found around a previously studied similar ring-like HII region (KR 140) and near a massive star-forming region (W3). Finally, we estimate the IR luminosities of the prominent newly detected sub-mm sources and find that they are correlated with the clump mass, consistent with a previously known luminosity-mass relationship which this study shows to be valid over four orders of magnitude in mass.

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