Based on the molecular emission in the 12CO(2-1) and 13CO(2-1) lines, and the continuum emission in the MIR and FIR towards the S21 IR dust bubble, we analyze the physical characteristics of the gas and dust linked to the nebula and the presence of young stellar objects (YSOs) in its environs. The line emission reveals a clumpy molecular shell, 1.4 pc in radius, encircling S21. The total molecular mass in the shell amounts to 2900 solar masses and the original ambient density, 2.1 x 103 cm−3, indicating that the bubble is evolving in a high density interstellar medium. The image at 24 μm shows warm dust inside the bubble, while the emission in the range 250 to 870 μm reveal cold dust in its outskirts, coincident with the molecular gas. The detection of radio continuun emission indicates that the bubble is a compact HII region. A search for YSOs using photometric criteria allowed to identify many candidates projected onto the molecular clumps. We analize if the collect and collapse process has triggered a new generation of stars.
@article{arxiv.1611.02661,
title = {A submillimeter study of the IR dust bubble S 21 and its environs},
author = {C. E. Cappa and N. U. Duronea and J. Vasquez and M. Rubio and V. Firpo and C. -H. López-Caraballo and J. Borissova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.02661},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
24 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in RMxAC