ALMA-QUARKS: Few-Thousand-Year Hatching out of "Egg": The Supersonic Breakout of a Hypercompact H II Region from Its Parental Hot Core
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| author | Zhang, Siju Garay, Guido Xu, Fengwei Rodríguez, Luis F. Evans II, Neal J. Zavagno, Annie Goldsmith, Paul F. Yang, Dongting Liu, Xunchuan Yang, Aiyuan Liu, Tie Stutz, Amelia M. Liu, Hong-Li Jiao, Wenyu Tej, Anandmayee Zhu, Lei Kim, Kee-Tae García, Pablo Peters, Thomas Möller, Thomas Li, Shanghuo Bronfman, Leonardo |
| author_facet | Zhang, Siju Garay, Guido Xu, Fengwei Rodríguez, Luis F. Evans II, Neal J. Zavagno, Annie Goldsmith, Paul F. Yang, Dongting Liu, Xunchuan Yang, Aiyuan Liu, Tie Stutz, Amelia M. Liu, Hong-Li Jiao, Wenyu Tej, Anandmayee Zhu, Lei Kim, Kee-Tae García, Pablo Peters, Thomas Möller, Thomas Li, Shanghuo Bronfman, Leonardo |
| contents | The kinematic evolution of hypercompact H II (HC H II) regions around young high-mass stars remains poorly understood due to complex interactions with parental environs. We present ALMA QUARKS/ATOMS 1.3 mm/3 mm observations (the highest resolution $\sim0.01$ pc) of a deeply embedded HC H II region (diameter $\sim0.015$ pc, electron density $\sim2\times10^{5}$ cm$^{-3}$) exhibiting a striking $\gtrsim20$ km s$^{-1}$ global redshift seen in optically thin H30$α$/H40$α$ recombination lines relative to its parental hot molecular core within a hub-filament system. The 1.3 mm continuum data reveal a distinct 0.1-pc arc and a perpendicular 0.04-pc tail. We propose that this morphology arises from a dynamic champagne flow: the slow expansion of HC H II region into a pre-existing filament forms the arc and associated low-velocity (few km s$^{-1}$) SiO shocks. Meanwhile, in the opposite direction ionized gas escapes along a steep density gradient traced by the tail and high-velocity (20 km s$^{-1}$) SiO emission. We reject the bow shock scenario in which ionized gas co-moves with a runaway high-mass star because shocked gas in the arc aligns with the hub velocity, contradicting the bow shock prediction. Non-LTE radiative transfer modeling further rules out infall of ionized gas as the velocity shift origin. We conclude that this exceptional HC H II region is undergoing a few-thousand-year transition phase of "hatching out of the egg": the ionized gas of HC H II region has just broken out of its parental hot core and now is flowing outward supersonically. This work highlights how anisotropic density distributions induce supersonically anisotropic ionized flows that govern HC H II region evolution. |
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| spellingShingle | ALMA-QUARKS: Few-Thousand-Year Hatching out of "Egg": The Supersonic Breakout of a Hypercompact H II Region from Its Parental Hot Core Zhang, Siju Garay, Guido Xu, Fengwei Rodríguez, Luis F. Evans II, Neal J. Zavagno, Annie Goldsmith, Paul F. Yang, Dongting Liu, Xunchuan Yang, Aiyuan Liu, Tie Stutz, Amelia M. Liu, Hong-Li Jiao, Wenyu Tej, Anandmayee Zhu, Lei Kim, Kee-Tae García, Pablo Peters, Thomas Möller, Thomas Li, Shanghuo Bronfman, Leonardo Astrophysics of Galaxies The kinematic evolution of hypercompact H II (HC H II) regions around young high-mass stars remains poorly understood due to complex interactions with parental environs. We present ALMA QUARKS/ATOMS 1.3 mm/3 mm observations (the highest resolution $\sim0.01$ pc) of a deeply embedded HC H II region (diameter $\sim0.015$ pc, electron density $\sim2\times10^{5}$ cm$^{-3}$) exhibiting a striking $\gtrsim20$ km s$^{-1}$ global redshift seen in optically thin H30$α$/H40$α$ recombination lines relative to its parental hot molecular core within a hub-filament system. The 1.3 mm continuum data reveal a distinct 0.1-pc arc and a perpendicular 0.04-pc tail. We propose that this morphology arises from a dynamic champagne flow: the slow expansion of HC H II region into a pre-existing filament forms the arc and associated low-velocity (few km s$^{-1}$) SiO shocks. Meanwhile, in the opposite direction ionized gas escapes along a steep density gradient traced by the tail and high-velocity (20 km s$^{-1}$) SiO emission. We reject the bow shock scenario in which ionized gas co-moves with a runaway high-mass star because shocked gas in the arc aligns with the hub velocity, contradicting the bow shock prediction. Non-LTE radiative transfer modeling further rules out infall of ionized gas as the velocity shift origin. We conclude that this exceptional HC H II region is undergoing a few-thousand-year transition phase of "hatching out of the egg": the ionized gas of HC H II region has just broken out of its parental hot core and now is flowing outward supersonically. This work highlights how anisotropic density distributions induce supersonically anisotropic ionized flows that govern HC H II region evolution. |
| title | ALMA-QUARKS: Few-Thousand-Year Hatching out of "Egg": The Supersonic Breakout of a Hypercompact H II Region from Its Parental Hot Core |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04744 |