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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 738, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/738/1/46
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ISM: clouds; open clusters and associations: individual (M20); radio lines: ISM
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- MEXT (the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan) [21253003, 20244014, 22540250, 22244014, 22740119]
- JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) [17004, R29, R2211]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22340042, 22540250, 23740149, 21253003, 22740119, 22244014, 22740127, 11J06148] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A large-scale study of the molecular clouds toward the Trifid Nebula, M20, has been made in the J = 2-1 and J = 1-0 transitions of (CO)-C-12 and (CO)-C-13. M20 is ionized predominantly by an O7.5 star HD164492. The study has revealed that there are two molecular components at separate velocities peaked toward the center of M20 and that their temperatures-30-50 K as derived by a large velocity gradient analysis-are significantly higher than the 10 K of their surroundings. We identify the two clouds as the parent clouds of the first generation stars in M20. The mass of each cloud is estimated to be similar to 10(3) M-circle dot and their separation velocity is similar to 8 km s(-1) over similar to 1-2 pc. We find that the total mass of stars and molecular gas in M20 is less than similar to 3.2 x 10(3) M-circle dot, which is too small by an order of magnitude to gravitationally bind the system. We argue that the formation of the first generation stars, including the main ionizing O7.5 star, was triggered by the collision between the two clouds in a short timescale of similar to 1 Myr, a second example alongside Westerlund 2, where a super-star cluster may have been formed due to cloud-cloud collision triggering.
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