We analyzed the 2.6-mm CO and 21-cm HI lines toward the Magellanic superbubble 30 Doradus C, in order to reveal the associated molecular and atomic gas. We uncovered five molecular clouds in a velocity range from 251 to 276 km s−1 toward the western shell. The non-thermal X-rays are clearly enhanced around the molecular clouds on a pc scale, suggesting possible evidence for magnetic field amplification via shock-cloud interaction. The thermal X-rays are brighter in the eastern shell, where there are no dense molecular or atomic clouds, opposite to the western shell. The TeV γ-ray distribution may spatially match the total interstellar proton column density as well as the non-thermal X-rays. If the hadronic γ-ray is dominant, the total energy of the cosmic-ray protons is at least ∼1.2×1050 erg with the estimated mean interstellar proton density ∼60 cm−3. In addition the γ-ray flux associated with the molecular cloud (e.g., MC3) could be detected and resolved by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This should permit CTA to probe the diffusion of cosmic-rays into the associated dense ISM.
@article{arxiv.1701.01962,
title = {Discovery of Molecular and Atomic Clouds Associated with the Magellanic Superbubble 30 Doradus C},
author = {H. Sano and Y. Yamane and F. Voisin and K. Fujii and S. Yoshiike and T. Inaba and K. Tsuge and Y. Babazaki and I. Mitsuishi and R. Yang and F. Aharonian and G. Rowell and M. D. Filipovic and N. Mizuno and K. Tachihara and A. Kawamura and T. Onishi and Y. Fukui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01962},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)