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Statistical Properties of Molecular Clumps in the Galactic Center 50 km s$^{-1}$ Molecular Cloud

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-06-04 v1

Abstract

We present the statistical properties of molecular clumps in the Galactic center 50 km s1^{-1} molecular cloud (GCM-0.02-0.07) based on observations of the CS J=10J=1-0 emission line with the Nobeyama Millimeter Array. In the cloud, 37 molecular clumps with local thermal equilibrium (LTE) masses of 2×1026×103M2\times10^2-6\times10^3 M_\odot 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 dN/dMM2.6±0.1dN/dM\propto M^{-2.6\pm0.1} (M900MM\gtrsim 900M_\odot) and dN/dRR5.9±0.3dN/dR\propto R^{-5.9\pm0.3} (R0.35R\gtrsim 0.35 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 dN/dMM2.0±0.1dN/dM\propto M^{-2.0\pm0.1} in the non-interacting part to dN/dMM4.0±0.2dN/dM\propto M^{-4.0\pm0.2} in the interacting region. On the other hand, the interaction presumably truncates the size spectrum on the larger side of R0.4R\sim 0.4 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}
}

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16 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ