A Search for Infall Evidence in EGOs I: the Northern Sample

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2009-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3631v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

44 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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We report the first systematic survey of molecular lines (including HCO+ (1-0) and 12CO, 13CO, C18O (1-0) lines at 3 mm band) towards a new sample of 88 massive young stellar object (MYSO) candidates associated with ongoing outflows (known as extended green objects or EGOs) identified from the Spitzer GLIMPSE survey in the northern hemisphere with the PMO-13.7 m radio telescope. By analyzing the asymmetries of the optically thick line HCO+ for 69 of 72 EGOs with HCO+ detection, we found 29 sources with blue asymmetric profiles and 19 sources with red asymmetric profiles. This results in a blue excess of 0.14, seen as a signature of collapsing cores in the observed EGO sample. The relatively small blue excess measured in our full sample due to that the observed EGOs are mostly dominated by outflows and at an earlier evolutionary phase associated with IRDCs and 6.7 GHz methanol masers. The physical properties of clouds surrounding EGOs derived from CO lines are similar to those of massive clumps wherein the massive star forming cores associated with EGOs possibly embedded. The infall velocities and mass infall rates derived for 20 infall candidates are also consistent with the typical values found in MYSOs. Thus our observations further support the speculation of Cyganowski et al. (2008) that EGOs trace a population with ongoing outflow activity and active rapid accretion stage of massive protostellar evolution from a statistical view, although there maybe have limitations due to single-pointing survey with a large beam.

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