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Feedback from protoclusters does not significantly change the kinematic properties of the embedded dense gas structures

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-12-05 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

A total of 64 ATOMS sources at different evolutionary stages were selected to investigate the kinematics and dynamics of gas structures under feedback. We identified dense gas structures based on the integrated intensity map of H13^{13}CO+^+ J=1-0 emission, and then extracted the average spectra of all structures to investigate their velocity components and gas kinematics. For the scaling relations between velocity dispersion σ\sigma, effective radius RR and column density NN of all structures, σNR\sigma-N*R always has a stronger correlation compared to σN\sigma-N and σR\sigma-R. There are significant correlations between velocity dispersion and column density, which may imply that the velocity dispersion originates from gravitational collapse, also revealed by the velocity gradients. The measured velocity gradients for dense gas structures in early-stage sources and late-stage sources are comparable, indicating gravitational collapse through all evolutionary stages. We quantitatively estimated the velocity dispersion generated by the outflows, inflows, ionized gas pressure and radiation pressure, and found that the ionized gas feedback is stronger than other feedback mechanisms. However, although feedback from HII regions is the strongest, it does not significantly affect the physical properties of the embedded dense gas structures. Combining with the conclusions in Zhou+2023 on cloud-clump scales, we suggest that although feedback from cloud to core scales will break up the original cloud complex, the substructures of the original complex can be reorganized into new gravitationally governed configurations around new gravitational centers. This process is accompanied by structural destruction and generation, and changes in gravitational centers, but gravitational collapse is always ongoing.

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@article{arxiv.2312.01497,
  title  = {Feedback from protoclusters does not significantly change the kinematic properties of the embedded dense gas structures},
  author = {J. W. Zhou and S. Dib and F. Wyrowski and T. Liu and S. H. Li and P. Sanhueza and M. Juvela and F. W. Xu and H. L. Liu and T. Baug and Y. P. Peng and K. M. Menten and L. Bronfman and C. W. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.01497},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics