The Galactic Center 50 km s−1 Molecular Cloud (50MC) is the most remarkable molecular cloud in the Sagittarius A region. This cloud is a candidate for the massive star formation induced by cloud-cloud collision (CCC) with a collision velocity of ∼30kms−1 that is estimated from the velocity dispersion. We observed the whole of the 50MC with a high angular resolution (∼2.0′′×1.4′′) in ALMA cycle 1 in the H13CO+J=1−0 and C34SJ=2−1 emission lines. We identified 241 and 129 bound cores with a virial parameter of less than 2, which are thought to be gravitationally bound, in the H13CO+ and C34S maps using the clumpfind algorithm, respectively. In the CCC region, the bound H13CO+ and C34S cores are 119 and 82, whose masses are 68% and 76% of those in the whole 50MC, respectively. The distribution of the core number and column densities in the CCC are biased to larger densities than those in the non-CCC region. The distributions indicate that the CCC compresses the molecular gas and increases the number of the dense bound cores. Additionally, the massive bound cores with masses of >3000M⊙ exist only in the CCC region, although the slope of the core mass function (CMF) in the CCC region is not different from that in the non-CCC region. We conclude that the compression by the CCC efficiently formed massive bound cores even if the slope of the CMF is not changed so much by the CCC.
@article{arxiv.1903.01759,
title = {Molecular Cloud Cores in the Galactic Center 50 $\rm km~s^{-1}$ Molecular Cloud},
author = {Kenta Uehara and Masato Tsuboi and Yoshimi Kitamura and Ryosuke Miyawaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01759},
year = {2019}
}