Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-01-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
8 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
We present images for the 3.5 mm continuum and HCN(J=1-0) hyperfine line emission from the surroundings of the HII regions G75.78+0.34 and G75.77+0.34 obtained with the Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA) interferometer using the D configuration at a spatial resolution of 18 arcsec and spectral sampling of 0.34 km/s. The continuum emission of both objects is dominated by free-free emission from the ionized gas surrounding the exciting stars. Dust emission may contribute only a small fraction of the 3.5 mm continuum from G75.78+0.34 and is negligible for G75.77+0.34. The high spectral resolution reached by BIMA allowed us to separate the emission from each hyperfine transition (F=1-1, F=2-1 and F=0-1), as well as to construct velocity channel maps along each emission-line profile. The HCN flux distributions are similar to those observed for the CO emission, but with some knots of high intensities indicating that the HCN traces high density clouds not seen in CO. The HCN hyperfine line ratios for both HII regions differ from those predicted theoretically for Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE), probably due to scattering of radiation processes. The velocity channels shows that the HCN emission of G75.78+0.34 follows the bipolar molecular outflows previously observed in CO. For G75.77+0.34, the outflowing gas contributes only a small fraction of the HCN emission.
Ludke Everton
Riffel Rogemar A.
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