CO observations in giant molecular clouds of M33 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Miura R.E.
  2. Kohno K.
  3. Tosaki T.
  4. Espada D.
  5. Hwang N.
  6. Kuno N.,Okumura S.K.
  7. Hirota A.
  8. Muraoka K.
  9. Onodera S.
  10. Minamidani T.
  11. Komugi S.,Nakanishi K.
  12. Sawada T.
  13. Kaneko H.
  14. Kawabe R.
  15. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a giant molecular cloud (GMC) catalog of M33 (NGC598), containing 71 GMCs in total, based on wide-field and high-sensitivity CO(J=3-2) observations with a spatial resolution of 100pc using the ASTE 10m telescope. Employing archival optical data, we identify 75 young stellar groups (YSGs) from the excess of the surface stellar density, and estimate their ages by comparing with stellar evolution models. A spatial comparison among the GMCs, YSGs, and H II regions enable us to classify GMCs into four categories: Type A, showing no sign of massive star formation (SF); Type B, being associated only with H II regions; Type C, with both H II regions and <10Myr old YSGs; and Type D, with both H II regions and 10-30Myr YSGs. Out of 65 GMCs (discarding those at the edges of the observed fields), 1 (1%), 13 (20%), 29 (45%), and 22 (34%) are Types A, B, C, and D, respectively. We interpret these categories as stages in a GMC evolutionary sequence. Assuming that the timescale for each evolutionary stage is proportional to the number of GMCs, the lifetime of a GMC with a mass >10^5^M_{sun}_ is estimated to be 20-40Myr. In addition, we find that the dense gas fraction as traced by the CO(J=3-2)/CO(J=1-0) ratio is enhanced around SF regions. This confirms a scenario where dense gas is preferentially formed around previously generated stars, and will be the fuel for the next stellar generation. In this way, massive SF gradually propagates in a GMC until gas is exhausted.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. molecular-clouds
  3. astronomical-object-identification
  4. stellar-associations
  5. millimeter-astronomy
  6. submillimeter-astronomy
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2012ApJ...761...37M
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2014-09-05T13:32:37Z
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2014-09-05T13:32:37Z
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