Molecular cloud cores in the GC 50km/s cloud

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The Galactic center 50km/s molecular cloud (50MC) is the most remarkable molecular cloud in the Sagittarius A region. This cloud is a candidate for the massive star formation induced by cloud-cloud collision (CCC) with a collision velocity of ~30km/s that is estimated from the velocity dispersion. We observed the whole of the 50MC with a high angular resolution (~2.0"x1.4") in Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array cycle 1 in the H^13^CO^+^ J=1-0 and C^34^S J=2-1 emission lines. We identified 241 and 129 bound cores with a virial parameter of less than 2, which are thought to be gravitationally bound, in the H^13^CO^+^ and C^34^S maps using the clumpfind algorithm, respectively. In the CCC region, the bound H^13^CO^+^ and C^34^S cores are 119 and 82, whose masses are 68% and 76% of those in the whole 50MC, respectively. The distribution of the core number and column densities in the CCC are biased to larger densities than those in the non-CCC region. The distributions indicate that the CCC compresses the molecular gas and increases the number of the dense bound cores. Additionally, the massive bound cores with masses of >3000M_{sun}_ exist only in the CCC region, although the slope of the core mass function (CMF) in the CCC region is not different from that in the non-CCC region. We conclude that the compression by the CCC efficiently formed massive bound cores even if the slope of the CMF is not changed so much by the CCC.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18720121
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Creator Uehara K.; Tsuboi M.; Kitamura Y.; Miyawaki R.; Miyazaki A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2020
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics