Galactic CHaMP. III. ^12^CO dense clump properties Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Barnes P.J.
  2. Hernandez A.K.
  3. O'Dougherty S.N.
  4. Schap III W.J.
  5. Muller E.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We report the second complete molecular line data release from the Census of High- and Medium-mass Protostars (CHaMP), a large-scale, unbiased, uniform mapping survey at sub-parsec resolution, of millimeter-wave line emission from 303 massive, dense molecular clumps in the Milky Way. This release is for all ^12^CO J=1->0 emission associated with the dense gas, the first from Phase II of the survey, which includes ^12^CO, ^13^CO, and C^18^O. The observed clump emission traced by both ^12^CO and HCO^+^ (from Phase I) shows very similar morphology, indicating that, for dense molecular clouds and complexes of all sizes, parsec-scale clumps contain {Xi}~75% of the mass, while only 25% of the mass lies in extended (>~10pc) or "low density" components in these same areas. The mass fraction of all gas above a density of 10^9^m^-3^ is {xi}_9_>~50%. This suggests that parsec-scale clumps may be the basic building blocks of the molecular interstellar medium, rather than the standard giant molecular cloud (GMC) concept. Using ^12^CO emission, we derive physical properties of these clumps in their entirety, and compare them to properties from HCO^+^, tracing their denser interiors. We compare the standard X-factor converting I_^12^CO_ to N_H2_ with alternative conversions, and show that only the latter give whole-clump properties that are physically consistent with those of their interiors. We infer that the clump population is systematically closer to virial equilibrium than when considering only their interiors, with perhaps half being long-lived (10s of Myr), pressure-confined entities that only terminally engage in vigorous massive star formation, supporting other evidence along these lines that was previously published.

Keywords
  1. Interstellar medium
  2. Radio astronomy
  3. Galaxy kinematics
  4. Molecular clouds
  5. Surveys
  6. Millimeter astronomy
  7. Submillimeter astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJ...831...67B
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18310067

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History

2017-02-27T10:22:30Z
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2017-02-27T10:22:30Z
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