Large scale map of millimeter wavelength hydrogen radio recombination lines around a young massive star cluster
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Nguyen Lu'o'ng, Q.
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Anderson, L. D.
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Motte, F.
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Louvet, F.
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Bronfman Aguiló, Leonardo
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2018-06-19T20:07:48Z
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2018-06-19T20:07:48Z
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2017
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 844: L25 (7pp), 2017
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10.3847/2041-8213/aa7d48
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/148994
Abstract
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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 similar to 70-1500 cm(-3) driven by the WR/OB cluster, which produces a total Ly alpha photon flux of 1.5 x 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.