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A statistical study towards the high-mass BGPS clumps with the MALT90 survey

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-02-07 v1

Abstract

In this work, we perform a statistical investigation towards 50 high-mass clumps using the data from the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) and the Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90-GHz survey (MALT90). Eleven dense molecular lines (N2_2H+^+(1-0), HNC(1-0), HCO+^+(1-0), HCN(1-0), HN13^{13}C(1-0), H13^{13}CO+^+(1-0), C2_2H(1-0), HC3_3N(10-9), SiO(2-1), 13^{13}CS(2-1) and HNCO(44,030,3))(4_{4,0}-3_{0,3})) are detected. N2_2H+^+ and HNC are shown to be good tracers for clumps in virous evolutionary stages since they are detected in all the fields. And the detection rates of N-bearing molecules decrease as the clumps evolve, but those of O-bearing species increase with evolution. Furthermore, the abundance ratios [N2_2H+^+]/[HCO+^+] and Log([HC3_3N]/[HCO+^+]) decline with Log([HCO+^+]) as two linear functions, respectively. This suggests the transformation of N2_2H+^+ and HC3_3N to HCO+^+ as the clumps evolve. We also find that C2_2H is the most abundant molecule with an order of 10810^{-8}. Besides, three new infall candidates G010.214-00.324, G011.121-00.128, and G012.215-00.118(a) are discovered to have large-scaled infall motions and infall rates in the magnitude of 10310^{-3} M_\odot yr1^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1709.08391,
  title  = {A statistical study towards the high-mass BGPS clumps with the MALT90 survey},
  author = {Xiao-Lan Liu and Jin-Long Xu and Chang-Chun Ning and Chuan-Peng Zhang and Xiao-Tao Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.08391},
  year   = {2018}
}

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40 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables