We report the results of the CO J=1-0 and SiO J=2-1 mapping observations towards the broad-velocity-width molecular feature CO 16.134-0.553 with the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope. The high quality CO map shows that the 5-pc size broad-velocity-width feature bridges two separate velocity components at VLSR≃ 40 km s−1 and 65 km s−1 in the position-velocity space. The kinetic power of CO 16.134-0.553 amounts to 7.8×102L⊙ whereas no apparent driving sources were identified. Prominent SiO emission was detected from the broad-velocity-width feature and its root in the VLSR≃ 40 km s−1 component. In the CO Galactic plane survey data, CO 16.134-0.553 appears to correspond to the Galactic eastern rim of a 15-pc diameter expanding CO shell. An 1deg-diameter H I emission void and 4deg-long vertical H I filament were also found above and below the CO shell, respectively. We propose that the high-velocity plunge of a dark matter subhalo with a clump of baryonic matter was responsible for the formation of the H I void, CO 16.134-0.553/CO shell, and the H I filament.
@article{arxiv.2404.09670,
title = {Millimeter-wave CO and SiO Observations toward the Broad-velocity-width Molecular Feature CO 16.134-0.553: a Smith cloud scenario?},
author = {Hiroki Yokozuka and Tomoharu Oka and Shiho Tsujimoto and Yuto Watanabe and Miyuki Kaneko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.09670},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures, 2 table, accepted for publication in ApJ