期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 633, 期 1, 页码 138-147出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/462403
关键词
galaxies : clusters : individual (HCG 92; Stephan's Quintet); galaxies : interactions; galaxies : ISM; intergalactic medium
We present high-resolution (CO)-C-12 J = 1-0 observations of the molecular gas in the Hickson compact group Stephan's Quintet (HCG 92). Our observations consist of multiple pointings and mosaics covering all the regions where CO and star formation have been detected. Within the 10000 field of view centered on the easternmost tidal tail, we detect three clumps of emission that may be partially resolved at our resolution of 800; two of these are new detections not previously seen in ISM studies of this region. Two of these clumps lie in the optical tidal tail, while the third lies to the southeast and is coincident with a large H I feature, but it does not correspond to any features at other wavelengths. We also tentatively detect CO emission from the star-forming regions in the old tail'' corresponding to recent star formation activity detected in recent UV and H alpha observations. Observations of the rest of the compact group do not show detections, even though strong emission was detected with single-dish telescopes, which suggests that the CO emission originates from a diffuse molecular gas cloud or from at least three separate clumps with separations greater than around 3 kpc.
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