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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical journal letters Année : 2017

Large-scale Map of Millimeter-wavelength Hydrogen Radio Recombination Lines around a Young Massive Star Cluster

Q. Nguyen-Luong
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L. D. Anderson
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Kee-Tae Kim
P. Schilke
P. Carlhoff
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H. Beuther
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N. Schneider
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P. Didelon
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C. Kramer
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F. Louvet
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S. Bihr
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M. Rugel
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J. Soler
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Y. Wang
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L. Bronfman
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R. Simon
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K. M. Menten
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F. Wyrowski
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Résumé

We report the first map of large-scale (10 pc in length) emission of millimeter-wavelength hydrogen recombination lines (mm-RRLs) toward the giant H II region around the W43-Main young massive star cluster (YMC). Our mm-RRL data come from the IRAM 30 m telescope and are analyzed together with radio continuum and cm-RRL data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and HCO+ 1-0 line emission data from the IRAM 30 m. The mm-RRLs reveal an expanding wind-blown ionized gas shell with an electron density ∼70-1500 cm-3 driven by the WR/OB cluster, which produces a total Lyα photon flux of 1.5× {10}50 s-1. This shell is interacting with the dense neutral molecular gas in the W43-Main dense cloud. Combining the high spectral and angular resolution mm-RRL and cm-RRL cubes, we derive the two-dimensional relative distributions of dynamical and pressure broadening of the ionized gas emission and find that the RRL line shapes are dominated by pressure broadening (4-55 {km} {{{s}}}-1) near the YMC and by dynamical broadening (8-36 {km} {{{s}}}-1) near the shell’s edge. Ionized gas clumps hosting ultra-compact H II regions found at the edge of the shell suggest that large-scale ionized gas motion triggers the formation of new star generation near the periphery of the shell.

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insu-03692488 , version 1 (09-06-2022)

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Q. Nguyen-Luong, L. D. Anderson, F. Motte, Kee-Tae Kim, P. Schilke, et al.. Large-scale Map of Millimeter-wavelength Hydrogen Radio Recombination Lines around a Young Massive Star Cluster. The Astrophysical journal letters, 2017, 844, ⟨10.3847/2041-8213/aa7d48⟩. ⟨insu-03692488⟩
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