ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: External-Pressure-Confined Dense Cores and Salpeter-like Core Mass Functions
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| author | Zhang, Zhenying Lu, Xing Liu, Tie Qin, Sheng-Li Ginsburg, Adam Cheng, Yu Liu, Hauyu Baobab Walker, Daniel L. Tang, Xindi Li, Shanghuo Zhang, Qizhou Pillai, Thushara Kauffmann, Jens Battersby, Cara Feng, Siyi Zhang, Suinan Gu, Qi-Lao Xu, Fengwei Jiao, Wenyu Liu, Xunchuan Chen, Li Luo, Qiu-yi Mai, Xiaofeng Li, Zi-yang Yang, Dongting Shen, Xianjin Liu, Meizhu Shen, Zhiqiang |
| author_facet | Zhang, Zhenying Lu, Xing Liu, Tie Qin, Sheng-Li Ginsburg, Adam Cheng, Yu Liu, Hauyu Baobab Walker, Daniel L. Tang, Xindi Li, Shanghuo Zhang, Qizhou Pillai, Thushara Kauffmann, Jens Battersby, Cara Feng, Siyi Zhang, Suinan Gu, Qi-Lao Xu, Fengwei Jiao, Wenyu Liu, Xunchuan Chen, Li Luo, Qiu-yi Mai, Xiaofeng Li, Zi-yang Yang, Dongting Shen, Xianjin Liu, Meizhu Shen, Zhiqiang |
| contents | We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6 (1.3 mm) observations of dense cores in three massive molecular clouds within the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way, including the Dust Ridge cloud e, Sgr C, and the 20 km s-1 cloud, at a spatial resolution of 2000 au. Among the 834 cores identified from the 1.3 mm continuum, we constrain temperatures and linewidths of 253 cores using local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) methods to fit the H2CO and/or CH3CN spectra. We determine their masses using the 1.3 mm dust continuum and derived temperatures, and then evaluate their virial parameters using the H2CO and/or CH3CN linewidths and construct the core mass functions (CMFs). We find that the contribution of external pressure is crucial for the virial equilibrium of the dense cores in the three clouds, which contrasts with the environment in the Galactic disk where dense cores are already bound even without the contribution of external pressure. We also find that the CMFs show a Salpeter-like slope in the high-mass (>~3-6 Msun) end, a change from previous works with our new temperature estimates. Combined with the possible top-heavy initial mass functions (IMFs) in the CMZ, our result suggests that gas accretion and further fragmentation may play important roles in transforming the CMF to the IMF. |
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| spellingShingle | ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: External-Pressure-Confined Dense Cores and Salpeter-like Core Mass Functions Zhang, Zhenying Lu, Xing Liu, Tie Qin, Sheng-Li Ginsburg, Adam Cheng, Yu Liu, Hauyu Baobab Walker, Daniel L. Tang, Xindi Li, Shanghuo Zhang, Qizhou Pillai, Thushara Kauffmann, Jens Battersby, Cara Feng, Siyi Zhang, Suinan Gu, Qi-Lao Xu, Fengwei Jiao, Wenyu Liu, Xunchuan Chen, Li Luo, Qiu-yi Mai, Xiaofeng Li, Zi-yang Yang, Dongting Shen, Xianjin Liu, Meizhu Shen, Zhiqiang Astrophysics of Galaxies We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6 (1.3 mm) observations of dense cores in three massive molecular clouds within the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way, including the Dust Ridge cloud e, Sgr C, and the 20 km s-1 cloud, at a spatial resolution of 2000 au. Among the 834 cores identified from the 1.3 mm continuum, we constrain temperatures and linewidths of 253 cores using local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) methods to fit the H2CO and/or CH3CN spectra. We determine their masses using the 1.3 mm dust continuum and derived temperatures, and then evaluate their virial parameters using the H2CO and/or CH3CN linewidths and construct the core mass functions (CMFs). We find that the contribution of external pressure is crucial for the virial equilibrium of the dense cores in the three clouds, which contrasts with the environment in the Galactic disk where dense cores are already bound even without the contribution of external pressure. We also find that the CMFs show a Salpeter-like slope in the high-mass (>~3-6 Msun) end, a change from previous works with our new temperature estimates. Combined with the possible top-heavy initial mass functions (IMFs) in the CMZ, our result suggests that gas accretion and further fragmentation may play important roles in transforming the CMF to the IMF. |
| title | ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: External-Pressure-Confined Dense Cores and Salpeter-like Core Mass Functions |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01593 |