Australia Telescope Compact Array Survey of Candidate Ultra-Compact and Buried HII Regions in the Magellanic Clouds

Details Australia Telescope Compact Array Survey of Candidate Ultra-Compact and Buried HII Regions in the Magellanic Clouds Australia Telescope Compact Array Survey of Candidate Ultra-Compact and Buried HII Regions in the Magellanic Clouds

2004-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407516v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

53 pp, AJ accepted, version with full-res figures at http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~remy/atca_pp.pdf

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We present a systematic survey for ultracompact HII (UCHII) regions in the Magellanic Clouds. Understanding the physics of massive star formation (MSF) is a critical astrophysical problem. The study of MSF began in our galaxy with surveys of UCHII regions, but before now this has not been done for other galaxies. We selected candidates based on their Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) colors and imaged them at 3 and 6 cm with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). Nearly all of the observed regions contain compact radio sources consistent with thermal emission. Many of the sources are related to optically visible HII regions, and often the radio emission traces the youngest and densest part of the HII region. The luminosity function and number distribution of Lyman continuum fluxes of the compact radio sources are consistent with standard stellar and cluster initial mass functions. This type of systematic assessment of IRAS diagnostics is important for interpreting Spitzer Space Telescope data, which will probe similar physical scales in nearby galaxies as IRAS did in the Magellanic Clouds.

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