期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 707, 期 1, 页码 283-309出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/283
关键词
circumstellar matter; H II regions; radio continuum: stars; stars: formation; stars: winds, outflows
资金
- National Science Foundation [AST-9800334, AST-0098562, AST-0100793, AST-0228993, AST-0507657]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- U. S. National Science Foundation
- STFC
- NRAO Graduate Student Internship Program
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/D000890/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [PP/D000890/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We have conducted a search for ionized gas at 3.6 cm, using the Very Large Array, toward 31 Galactic intermediate- and high-mass clumps detected in previous millimeter continuum observations. In the 10 observed fields, 35 H II regions are identified, of which 20 are newly discovered. Many of the H II regions are multiply peaked indicating the presence of a cluster of massive stars. We find that the ionized gas tends to be associated toward the millimeter clumps; of the 31 millimeter clumps observed, nine of these appear to be physically related to ionized gas, and a further six have ionized gas emission within 1'. For clumps with associated ionized gas, the combined mass of the ionizing massive stars is compared to the clump masses to provide an estimate of the instantaneous star formation efficiency. These values range from a few percent to 25%, and have an average of 7% +/- 8%. We also find a correlation between the clump mass and the mass of the ionizing massive stars within it, which is consistent with a power law. This result is comparable to the prediction of star formation by competitive accretion that a power-law relationship exists between the mass of the most massive star in a cluster and the total mass of the remaining stars.
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