Relationship between the column density distribution and evolutionary class of molecular clouds as viewed by ATLASGAL

Relationship between the column density distribution and evolutionary class of molecular clouds as viewed by ATLASGAL
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ATLASGAL观察分子云柱密度分布与演化类别的关系

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2015
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H. Beuther
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J. Abreu;J. Kainulainen;A. Stutz;T. Henning;H. Beuther

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我们首次研究了附近银河系旋臂内分子云的柱密度分布与其从恒星含量测量的演化状态之间的关系。我们分析了195个分子云的样本位于距离低于5.5千秒差距,确定从ATLASGAL 870微米的数据。我们定义了三个进化类在这个样本:无星团块,恒星形成云与相关的年轻恒星物体,云与HII地区。我们发现这三类天体的N(H2)概率密度函数(N-PDF)是明显不同的:无星团块的N-PDF是偏西的,形状接近对数正态分布,而恒星形成云和HII区域在很宽的柱密度范围内表现出幂律形状,只有在低柱密度时才表现出对数正态分布。我们使用的N-PDF估计的进化时间尺度的三类对象的基础上一个简单的分析模型从文献中。最后,我们表明,N-PDF的积分,致密气体的质量分数,取决于ATLASGAL测量的区域的总质量:更大质量的云包含更大的相对量的致密气体在所有的进化类。
We present the first study of the relationship between the column density distribution of molecular clouds within nearby Galactic spiral arms and their evolutionary status as measured from their stellar content. We analyze a sample of 195 molecular clouds located at distances below 5.5 kpc, identified from the ATLASGAL 870 micron data. We define three evolutionary classes within this sample: starless clumps, star-forming clouds with associated young stellar objects, and clouds associated with HII regions. We find that the N(H2) probability density functions (N-PDFs) of these three classes of objects are clearly different: the N-PDFs of starless clumps are narrowest and close to log-normal in shape, while star-forming clouds and HII regions exhibit a power-law shape over a wide range of column densities and log-normal-like components only at low column densities. We use the N-PDFs to estimate the evolutionary time-scales of the three classes of objects based on a simple analytic model from literature. Finally, we show that the integral of the N-PDFs, the dense gas mass fraction, depends on the total mass of the regions as measured by ATLASGAL: more massive clouds contain greater relative amounts of dense gas across all evolutionary classes.
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