Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-09-25
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 338 (2003) 609
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 6 Figures. LaTeX. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06062.x
The Mopra 22m and SEST 15m telescopes have been used to detect and partially map a region of 12CO(1-0) line emission within the Magellanic Bridge, a region lying between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The emission appears to be embedded in a cloud of neutral hydrogen, and is in the vicinity of an IRAS source. The CO emission region is found to have a 60um/100um flux density ratio typical for 12CO(1-0) detections within the SMC, although it has a significantly lower 12CO brightness and velocity width. These suggest that the observed region is of a low metallicity, supporting earlier findings that the Magellanic Bridge is not as evolved as the SMC and Magellanic Stream, which are themselves of a lower metallicity than the Galaxy. Our observations, along with empirical models based on SMC observations, indicate that the radius of the detected CO region has an upper limit of ~16 pc. This detection is, to our knowledge, the first detection of CO emission from the Magellanic Bridge and is the only direct evidence of star formation through molecular cloud collapse in this region.
Muller Eduard
Staveley--Smith Lister
Zealey William
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