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Investigating a Global Collapsing Hub-Filament Cloud G326.611+0.811

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-09-11 v1

Abstract

We present the dynamics study toward the G326.611+0.811 (G326) hub-filament-system (HFS) cloud using the new APEX observations of both 13^{13}CO and C18^{18}O (J = 2-1). The G326 HFS cloud constitutes a central hub and at least four hub-composing filaments that are divided into a major branch of filaments (F1, and F2) and a side branch (F3-F5). The cloud holds ongoing high-mass star formation as characterised by three massive dense clumps (i.e., 370-1100 MM_{\odot} and 0.14-0.16 g cm2^{-2} for C1-C3) with the high clump-averaged mass infalling rates (>103>10^{-3} MM_{\odot} yr1^{-1}) within in the major filament branch, and the associated point sources bright at 70 μ\mum typical of young protostars. Along the five filaments, the velocity gradients are found in both 13^{13}CO and C18^{18}O (J = 2-1) emission, suggesting that the filament-aligned gravitational collapse toward the central hub (i.e., C2) is being at work for high-mass star formation therein. Moreover, a periodic velocity oscillation along the major filament branch is revealed in both 13^{13}CO and C18^{18}O (J = 2-1) emission with a characteristic wavelength of \sim3.5 pc and an amplitude of \sim0.31-0.38 km s1^{-1}. We suggest that this pattern of velocity oscillation in G326 could arise from the clump-forming gas motions induced by gravitational instability. Taking into account the prevalent velocity gradients, the fragmentation of the major branch of filaments, and the ongoing collapse of the three massive dense clumps, it is indicative that G326 is a HFS undergoing global collapse.

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@article{arxiv.2309.04239,
  title  = {Investigating a Global Collapsing Hub-Filament Cloud G326.611+0.811},
  author = {Yu-Xin He and Hong-Li Liu and Xin-Di Tang and Sheng-Li Qin and Jian-Jun Zhou and Jarken Esimbek and Si-Rong Pan and Da-Lei Li and Meng-Ke Zhao and Wei-Guang Ji and Toktarkhan Komesh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04239},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

21 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJ