ASHES. IX. Massive clumps with ALMA observations Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Morii K.
  2. Sanhueza P.
  3. Nakamura F.
  4. Zhang Q.
  5. Sabatini G.
  6. Beuther H.,Lu X.
  7. Li S.
  8. Garay G.
  9. Jackson J.M.
  10. Olguin F.A.
  11. Tafoya D.,Tatematsu K.
  12. Izumi N.
  13. Sakai T.
  14. Silva A.
  15. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The initial conditions found in infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) provide insights on how high-mass stars and stellar clusters form. We have conducted high-angular resolution and high-sensitivity observations toward thirty-nine massive IRDC clumps, which have been mosaicked using the 12 and 7m arrays from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The targets are 70{mu}m dark massive (220-4900M_{sun}_), dense (>10^4^cm^-3^), and cold (~10-20K) clumps located at distances between 2 and 6kpc. We identify an unprecedented number of 839 cores, with masses between 0.05 and 81M_{sun}_ using 1.3mm dust continuum emission. About 55% of the cores are low-mass (<1M_{sun}_), whereas <~1% (7/839) are high-mass (>~27M_{sun}_). We detect no high-mass prestellar cores. The most massive cores (MMC) identified within individual clumps lack sufficient mass to form high-mass stars without additional mass feeding. We find that the mass of the MMCs is correlated with the clump surface density, implying denser clumps produce more massive cores. There is no significant mass segregation except for a few tentative detections. In contrast, most clumps show segregation once the clump density is considered instead of mass. Although the dust continuum emission resolves clumps in a network of filaments, some of which consist of hub-filament systems, the majority of the MMCs are not found in the hubs. Our analysis shows that high-mass cores and MMCs have no preferred location with respect to low-mass cores at the earliest stages of high-mass star formation.

Keywords
  1. star-forming-regions
  2. millimeter-astronomy
  3. submillimeter-astronomy
  4. galaxy-kinematics
  5. interferometry
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2023ApJ...950..148M
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2025-09-05T13:49:25Z
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