RCW120 fragmentation at 0.01pc scale Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Figueira M.
  2. Bronfman L.
  3. Zavagno A.
  4. Louvet F.
  5. Lo N.
  6. Finger R.
  7. Rodon J.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Little is known about how high-mass stars form. Around 30% of the young high-mass stars in the Galaxy are observed at the edges of ionized (HII) regions. Therefore these are places of choice to study the earliest stages of high-mass star formation, especially towards the most massive condensations. High-spatial resolution observations in the millimeter range might reveal how these stars form and how they assemble their mass. We want to study the fragmentation process down to the 0.01pc scale in the most massive condensation (1700M_{sun}_) observed at the south-western edge of the HII region RCW 120 where the most massive Herschel cores (~124M_{sun}_ in average) could form high-mass stars. Using ALMA 3mm continuum observations towards the densest and most massive millimetric condensation (Condensation 1) of RCW 120, we used the getimages and getsources algorithms to extract the sources detected with ALMA and obtained their physical parameters. The fragmentation of the Herschel cores is discussed through their Jeans mass to understand the properties of the future stars. We extracted 18 fragments from the ALMA continuum observation at 3mm towards 8 cores detected with Herschel, whose mass and deconvolved size range from 2M_{sun}_ to 32M_{sun}_ and from 1.6mpc to 28.8mpc, respectively. The low degree of fragmentation observed, regarding to the thermal Jeans fragmentation, suggests that the observed fragmentation is inconsistent with ideal gravitational fragmentation and other ingredients such as turbulence or magnetic fields should be added in order to explain it. Finally, the range of fragments' mass indicates that the densest condensation of RCW 120 is a favourable place for the formation of high-mass stars with the presence of a probable UCHII region associated with the 27M_{sun}_ Fragment 1 of Core 2.

Keywords
  1. h-ii-regions
  2. millimeter-astronomy
  3. submillimeter-astronomy
  4. galaxy-classification-systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018A&A...616L..10F
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/616/L10
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/616/L10
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36169010

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/616/L10
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/616/L10
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/616/L10
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/616/L10/catalog?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/616/L10/catalog?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/616/L10/catalog?

History

2018-08-21T08:27:47Z
Resource record created
2018-08-21T08:27:47Z
Created
2018-08-24T07:42:19Z
Updated

Contact

Name
CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
cds-question@unistra.fr