Gravitational collapse and accretion flows in the hub filament system G323.46-0.08

¹ XingJiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, PR China
e-mail: zhoujj@xao.ac.cn; jarken@xao.ac.cn; mayingxiu@xao.ac.cn
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
³ Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, PR China
⁴ Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Radio Astrophysics, Urumqi 830011, PR China
⁵ Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, ASTRON, 7991 PD Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
⁶ Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
⁷ Energetic Cosmos Laboratory, Nazarbayev University, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
⁸ Faculty of Physics and Technology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan

Received: 26 February 2023
Accepted: 8 June 2023

Abstract

We studied the hub-filament system G323.46-0.08 based on archival molecular line data from the SEDIGISM ¹³CO survey and infrared data from the GLIMPSE, MIPS, and Hi-GAL surveys. G323.46-0.08 consists of three filaments, F-north, F-west, and F-south, that converge toward the central high-mass clump AGAL 323.459-0.079. F-west and Part1 of the F-south show clear large-scale velocity gradients 0.28 and 0.44 km s⁻¹ pc⁻¹, respectively. They seem to be channeling materials into AGAL 323.459-0.079. The minimum accretion rate was estimated to be 1216 M_⊙ Myr⁻¹. A characteristic V-shape appears around AGAL323.459-0.079 in the PV diagram, which traces the accelerated gas motions under gravitational collapse. This has also been supported by model fitting results. All three filaments are supercritical and they have fragmented into many dense clumps. The seesaw patterns near most dense clumps in the PV diagram suggests that mass accretion also occurs along the filament toward the clumps. Our results show that filamentary accretion flows appear to be an important mechanism for supplying the materials necessary to form the central high-mass clump AGAL 323.459-0.079 and to propel the star forming activity taking place therein.