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A&A
Volume 590, June 2016
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Article Number | A75 | |
Number of page(s) | 17 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424385 | |
Published online | 13 May 2016 |
Structure and stability in TMC-1: Analysis of NH3 molecular line and Herschel continuum data
1
Eötvös Loránd UniversityDepartment of Astronomy,
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A,
1117
Budapest,
Hungary
e-mail:
feher.orsolya@csfk.mta.hu
2
Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth
Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, 1121
Budapest,
Hungary
3
Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central
Lancashire, Preston
PR1 2HE,
UK
4
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy,
Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121
Bonn,
Germany
5
Department of Physics, PO Box 64, University of
Helsinki, 00014
Helsinki,
Finland
6
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748
Garching bei München,
Germany
Received: 12 June 2014
Accepted: 11 March 2016
Aims. We examined the velocity, density, and temperature structure of Taurus molecular cloud-1 (TMC-1), a filamentary cloud in a nearby quiescent star forming area, to understand its morphology and evolution.
Methods. We observed high signal-to-noise (S/N), high velocity resolution NH3(1,1), and (2, 2) emission on an extended map. By fitting multiple hyperfine-split line profiles to the NH3(1, 1) spectra, we derived the velocity distribution of the line components and calculated gas parameters on several positions. Herschel SPIRE far-infrared continuum observations were reduced and used to calculate the physical parameters of the Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) in the region, including the two in TMC-1. The morphology of TMC-1 was investigated with several types of clustering methods in the parameter space consisting of position, velocity, and column density.
Results. Our Herschel-based column density map shows a main ridge with two local maxima and a separated peak to the south-west. The H2 column densities and dust colour temperatures are in the range of 0.5−3.3 × 1022 cm-2 and 10.5−12 K, respectively. The NH3 column densities and H2 volume densities are in the range of 2.8−14.2 × 1014 cm-2 and 0.4−2.8 × 104 cm-3. Kinetic temperatures are typically very low with a minimum of 9 K at the maximum NH3 and H2 column density region. The kinetic temperature maximum was found at the protostar IRAS 04381+2540 with a value of 13.7 K. The kinetic temperatures vary similarly to the colour temperatures in spite of the fact that densities are lower than the critical density for coupling between the gas and dust phase. The k-means clustering method separated four sub-filaments in TMC-1 with masses of 32.5, 19.6, 28.9, and 45.9 M⊙ and low turbulent velocity dispersion in the range of 0.13−0.2 km s-1.
Conclusions. The main ridge of TMC-1 is composed of four sub-filaments that are close to gravitational equilibrium. We label these TMC-1F1 through F4. The sub-filaments TMC-1F1, TMC-1F2, and TMC-1F4 are very elongated, dense, and cold. TMC-1F3 is a little less elongated and somewhat warmer, and probably heated by the Class I protostar, IRAS 04381+2540, which is embedded in it. TMC-1F3 is approximately 0.1 pc behind TMC1-F1. Because of its structure, TMC-1 is a good target to test filament evolution scenarios.
Key words: molecular data / ISM: clouds / ISM: molecules / ISM: abundances / ISM: kinematics and dynamics / radio lines: ISM
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