Statistical Properties of Molecular Clumps in the Galactic Center 50 km s$^{-1}$ Molecular Cloud
Abstract
We present the statistical properties of molecular clumps in the Galactic center 50 km s molecular cloud (GCM-0.02-0.07) based on observations of the CS emission line with the Nobeyama Millimeter Array. In the cloud, 37 molecular clumps with local thermal equilibrium (LTE) masses of were identified by using the {\it clumpfind} algorithm. The velocity widths of the molecular clumps are about five-fold those of Galactic disk molecular clouds with the same radius. The virial-theorem masses are three-fold the LTE masses. The mass and size spectra can be described by power laws of () and ( pc), respectively. The statistical properties of the region interacting with the Sgr A East shell and those of the non-interacting part of the cloud are significantly different. The interaction probably makes the mass function steeper, from in the non-interacting part to in the interacting region. On the other hand, the interaction presumably truncates the size spectrum on the larger side of pc.
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@article{arxiv.1204.5535,
title = {Statistical Properties of Molecular Clumps in the Galactic Center 50 km s$^{-1}$ Molecular Cloud},
author = {Masato Tsuboi and Atsushi Miyazaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5535},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
16 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ