• A Catalog of Molecular Clumps and Cores with Infall Signatures

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: The research of infall motion is a common means to study molecular cloud dynamics and the early process of star formation. Many works had been done in-depth research on infall. We searched the literature related to infall study of molecular cloud since 1994, summarized the infall sources identified by the authors. A total of 456 infall sources are catalogued. We classify them into high-mass and low-mass sources, in which the high-mass sources are divided into three evolutionary stages: prestellar, protostellar and HII region. We divide the sources into clumps and cores according to their sizes. The H$_2$ column density values range from 1.21$\times$ 10$^{21}$ to 9.75 $\times$ 10$^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$, with a median value of 4.17$\times$ 10$^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$. The H$_2$ column densities of high-mass and low-mass sources are significantly separated. The median value of infall velocity for high-mass clumps is 1.12 km s$^{-1}$, and the infall velocities of low-mass cores are virtually all less than 0.5 km s$^{-1}$. There is no obvious difference between different stages of evolution. The mass infall rates of low-mass cores are between 10$^{-7}$ and 10$^{-4}$ M$_{\odot} \text{yr}^{-1}$, and those of high-mass clumps are between 10$^{-4}$ and 10$^{-1}$ M$_{\odot} \text{yr}^{-1}$ with only one exception. We do not find that the mass infall rates vary with evolutionary stages.

  • Preliminary analysis on the noise characteristics of MWISP data

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Noise is a significant part within a millimeter-wave molecular line datacube. Analyzing the noise improves our understanding of noise characteristics, and further contributes to scientific discoveries. We measure the noise level of a single datacube from MWISP and perform statistical analyses. We identified major factors which increase the noise level of a single datacube, including bad channels, edge effects, baseline distortion and line contamination. Cleaning algorithms are applied to remove or reduce these noise components. As a result, we obtained the cleaned datacube in which noise follows a positively skewed normal distribution. We further analyzed the noise structure distribution of a 3D mosaicked datacube in the range l = 40{\deg}.7 to 43{\deg}.3 and b = -2{\deg}.3 to 0{\deg}.3 and found that noise in the final mosaicked datacube is mainly characterized by noise fluctuation among the cells.