Dual Cometary HII Regions in DR21: Bow Shocks or Champagne Flows?

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2003-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307502v1

Astrophys.J.596:344-349,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/377688

The DR 21 massive star forming region contains two cometary HII regions, aligned nearly perpendicular to each other on the sky. This offers a unique opportunity to discriminate among models of cometary HII regions. We present hydrogen recombination and ammonia line observations of DR 21 made with the Very Large Array. The velocity of the molecular gas, measured from ammonia emission and absorption lines, is constant to within +/- 1 km/s across the region. However, the radial velocity of the ionized material, measured from hydrogen recombination lines, differs by approximately 9 km/s between the "heads" of the two cometary HII regions and by up to approximately 7 km/s from that of the molecular gas. These findings indicate a supersonic velocity difference between the compact heads of the cometary regions and between each head and the ambient molecular material. This suggests that the observed cometary morphologies are created largely by the motion of wind-blowing, ionizing stars through the molecular cloud, as in a bow shock model.

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