Ophiuchus molecular cloud CO observations Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. White G.J.
  2. Drabek-Maunder E.
  3. Rosolowsky E.
  4. Ward-Thompson D.
  5. Davis C.J.,Gregson J.
  6. Hatchell J.
  7. Etxaluze M.
  8. Stickler S.
  9. Buckle J.
  10. Johnstone D.,Friesen R.
  11. Sadavoy S.
  12. Natt K.V.
  13. Currie M.
  14. Richer J.S.
  15. Pattle K.,Spaans M.
  16. Di Francesco J.
  17. Hogerheijde M.R.
  18. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

CO, ^13^CO, and C^18^O J=3-2 observations are presented of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud. The ^13^CO and C^18^O emission is dominated by the Oph A clump, and the Oph B1, B2, C, E, F, and J regions. The optically thin(ner) C18O line is used as a column density tracer, from which the gravitational binding energy is estimated to be 4.5x10^39^J (2282M_{sun}_km^2^/s^2^). The turbulent kinetic energy is 6.3x10^38^J (320M_{sun}_km^2^/s^2^), or seven times less than this, and therefore the Oph cloud as a whole is gravitationally bound. 30 protostars were searched for high-velocity gas, with 8 showing outflows, and 20 more having evidence of high-velocity gas along their lines of sight. The total outflow kinetic energy is 1.3x10^38^J (67M_{sun}_km^2^/s^2^), corresponding to 21 percent of the cloud's turbulent kinetic energy. Although turbulent injection by outflows is significant, but does not appear to be the dominant source of turbulence in the cloud. 10^5^ dense molecular clumplets were identified, which had radii ~0.01-0.05pc, virial masses ~0.1-12M_{sun}_, luminosities ~0.001-0.1K.km/s/pc^2^, and excitation temperatures ~10^-50^K. These are consistent with the standard Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) based size-linewidth relationships, showing that the scaling laws extend down to size scales of hundredths of a parsec, and to subsolar-mass condensations. There is however no compelling evidence that the majority of clumplets are undergoing free-fall collapse, nor that they are pressure confined.

Keywords
  1. molecular-clouds
  2. co-line-emission
  3. galaxy-classification-systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015MNRAS.447.1996W
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/1996
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74471996

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