Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-09-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 9 figures, in press in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
We present single dish and interferometric maps of several rotational transitions of HC3N vibrationally excited levels towards Sgr B2. The single dish maps show, for the first time, new four bright clumps (Sgr B2R1 to B2R4) in the ridge connecting the main cores Sgr B2M and Sgr B2N, and a low brightness extended region to the west of the ridge (Sgr B2W). The physical properties and the kinematics of all hot cores have been derived from the HC3N* lines. Our high angular resolution images show that the Sgr B2N hot core breaks in two different hot cores, Sgr B2N1 and N2, with different radial velocities and separated by 2 arcsec in declination. We find that the excitation of the HC3N* emission in all hot cores can be represented by a single temperature and that the linewidth of the HC3N* rotational lines arising from different vibrational levels systematically decreases as the energy of the vibrational level increases. The systematic trend in the linewidth is likely related to the increase of the velocity as the distance to the exciting source increases. The different HC3N abundances in the hot cores reflect different stages of evolution due to time dependent chemistry and/or photo-dissociation by UV radiation from nearby HII regions. We propose that Sgr B2M and B2N contain a cluster of 20-30 hot cores and that the Sgr B2R1-B2R4 hot cores represent isolated formation of massive stars.
Colom Pierre
de Vicente P.
Martín-Pintado Jesús
Neri Roberto.
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