Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures, to be published in "Massive star birth: A crossroads of Astrophysics", IAU Symposium Proceedings of the in
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921305004400
We found that in regions of high mass star formation the CS emission correlates well with the dust continuum emission and is therefore a good tracer of the total mass while the N$_2$H$^+$ distribution is frequently very different. This is opposite to their typical behavior in low-mass cores where freeze-out plays a crucial role in the chemistry. The behavior of other high density tracers varies from source to source but most of them are closer to CS. Radial density profiles in massive cores are fitted by power laws with indices about -1.6, as derived from the dust continuum emission. The radial temperature dependence on intermediate scales is close to the theoretically expected one for a centrally heated optically thin cloud. The velocity dispersion either remains constant or decreases from the core center to the edge. Several cores including those without known embedded IR sources show signs of infall motions. They can represent the earliest phases of massive protostars. There are implicit arguments in favor of small-scale clumpiness in the cores.
Caselli Paola
Johansson Lars E. B.
Malafeev Sergey
Pirogov Lev
Turner Barry
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