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We report the statistical physical properties of the C$^{18}$O($J=1-0$) clumps present in a prominent cluster-forming region, Cygnus X, using the dataset obtained by the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope. This survey covers 9 deg$^2$ of the north and south regions of Cygnus X, and totally 174 C$^{18}$O clumps are identified using the dendrogram method. Assuming a distance of 1.4 kpc, these clumps have radii of 0.2-1 pc, velocity dispersions of $<2.2~mathrm{km~s^{-1}}$, gas masses of 30-3000 $M_odot$, and H$_2$ densities of (0.2-5.5)$times10^4~mathrm{cm^{-3}}$. We confirm that the C$^{18}$O clumps in the north region have a higher H$_2$ density than those in the south region, supporting the existence of a difference in the evolution stages, consistent with the star formation activity of these regions. The difference in the clump properties of the star-forming and starless clumps is also confirmed by the radius, velocity dispersion, gas mass, and H$_2$ density. The average virial ratio of 0.3 supports that these clumps are gravitationally bound. The C$^{18}$O clump mass function shows two spectral index components, $alpha=-1.4$ in 55-140 $M_odot$ and $alpha=-2.1$ in $>140~M_odot$, which are consistent with the low- and intermediate-mass parts of the Kroupas initial mass function. The spectral index in the star-forming clumps in $>140~M_odot$ is consistent with that of the starless clumps in 55-140 $M_odot$, suggesting that the latter will evolve into star-forming clumps while retaining the gas accretion. Assuming a typical star formation efficiency of molecular clumps (10%), about ten C$^{18}$O clumps having a gas mass of $>10^3~M_odot$ will evolve into open clusters containing one or more OB stars.
We present an unbiased large-scale (9 deg$^2$) CN ($N$=1-0) and C$^{18}$O ($J$=1-0) survey of Cygnus-X conducted with the Nobeyama 45m Cygnus-X CO survey. CN and C$^{18}$O are detected in various objects towards the Cygnus-X North and South (e.g., DR17, DR18, DR21, DR22, DR23, and W75N). We find that CN/C$^{18}$O integrated intensity ratios are systematically different from region to region, and are especially enhanced in DR17 and DR18 which are irradiated by the nearby OB stars. This result suggests that CN/C$^{18}$O ratios are enhanced via photodissociation reactions. We investigate the relation between the CN/C$^{18}$O ratio and strength of the UV radiation field. As a result, we find that CN/C$^{18}$O ratios correlate with the far-UV intensities, $G_0$. We also find that CN/C$^{18}$O ratios decrease inside molecular clouds, where the interstellar UV radiation is reduced due to the interstellar dust extinction. We conclude that the CN/C$^{18}$O ratio is controlled by the UV radiation, and is a good probe of photon-dominated regions.
We present the $^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O (J=3-2) Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey (CHIMPS) which has been carried out using the Heterodyne Array Receiver Program on the 15 m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. The high-resolution spectral survey currently covers |b| < 0.5 deg and 28 < l < 46 deg, with an angular resolution of 15 arcsec in 0.5 km/s velocity channels. The spectra have a median rms of $sim$ 0.6 K at this resolution, and for optically thin gas at an excitation temperature of 10 K, this sensitivity corresponds to column densities of $N_{mathrm{H}_{2}} sim 3 times 10^{20},$cm$^{-2}$ and $N_{mathrm{H}_{2}} sim 4 times 10^{21},$cm$^{-2}$ for $^{13}$CO and C$^{18}$O, respectively. The molecular gas that CHIMPS traces is at higher column densities and is also more optically thin than in other publicly available CO surveys due to its rarer isotopologues, and thus more representative of the three-dimensional structure of the clouds. The critical density of the J=3-2 transition of CO is $gtrsim 10^{4}$ cm$^{-3}$ at temperatures of $leq 20$ K, and so the higher density gas associated with star formation is well traced. These data complement other existing Galactic plane surveys, especially the JCMT Galactic Plane Survey which has similar spatial resolution and column density sensitivity, and the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey. In this paper, we discuss the observations, data reduction and characteristics of the survey, presenting integrated emission maps for the region covered. Position-velocity diagrams allow comparison with Galactic structure models of the Milky Way, and while we find good agreement with a particular four arm model, there are some significant deviations.
We use the IRAM Large Program EMPIRE and new high-resolution ALMA data to measure 13CO(1-0)/C18O(1-0) intensity ratios across nine nearby spiral galaxies. These isotopologues of CO are typically optically thin across most of the area in galaxy disks, and this ratio allows us to gauge their relative abundance due to chemistry or stellar nucleosynthesis effects. Resolved 13CO/C18O gradients across normal galaxies have been rare due to the faintness of these lines. We find a mean 13CO/C18O ratio of 6.0$pm$0.9 for the central regions of our galaxies. This agrees well with results in the Milky Way, but differs from results for starburst galaxies (3.4$pm$0.9) and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (1.1$pm$0.4). In our sample, the 13CO/C18O ratio consistently increases with increasing galactocentric radius and decreases with increasing star formation rate surface density. These trends qualitatively agree with expectations for carbon and oxygen isotopic abundance variations due to stellar nucleosynthesis, with a possible effect of fractionation.
We conducted an exploration of 12CO molecular outflows in the Orion A giant molecular cloud to investigate outflow feedback using 12CO (J = 1-0) and 13CO (J = 1-0) data obtained by the Nobeyama 45-m telescope. In the region excluding the center of OMC 1, we identified 44 12CO (including 17 newly detected) outflows based on the unbiased and systematic procedure of automatically determining the velocity range of the outflows and separating the cloud and outflow components. The optical depth of the 12CO emission in the detected outflows is estimated to be approximately 5. The total momentum and energy of the outflows, corrected for optical depth, are estimated to be 1.6 x 10 2 M km s-1 and 1.5 x 10 46 erg, respectively. The momentum and energy ejection rate of the outflows are estimated to be 36% and 235% of the momentum and energy dissipation rates of the cloud turbulence, respectively. Furthermore, the ejection rates of the outflows are comparable to those of the expanding molecular shells estimated by Feddersen et al. (2018, ApJ, 862, 121). Cloud turbulence cannot be sustained by the outflows and shells unless the energy conversion efficiency is as high as 20%.
Neither HI nor CO emission can reveal a significant quantity of so-called dark gas in the interstellar medium (ISM). It is considered that CO-dark molecular gas (DMG), the molecular gas with no or weak CO emission, dominates dark gas. We identified 36 DMG clouds with C$^+$ emission (data from Galactic Observations of Terahertz C+ (GOT C+) project) and HINSA features. Based on uncertainty analysis, optical depth of HI $taurm_{HI}$ of 1 is a reasonable value for most clouds. With the assumption of $taurm_{HI}=1$, these clouds were characterized by excitation temperatures in a range of 20 K to 92 K with a median value of 55 K and volume densities in the range of $6.2times10^1$ cm$^{-3}$ to $1.2times 10^3$ cm$^{-3}$ with a median value of $2.3times 10^2$ cm$^{-3}$. The fraction of DMG column density in the cloud ($frm_{DMG}$) decreases with increasing excitation temperature following an empirical relation $frm_{DMG}=-2.1times 10^{-3}T_(ex,tau_{HI}=1)$+1.0. The relation between $frm_{DMG}$ and total hydrogen column density $N_H$ is given by $frm_{DMG}$=$1.0-3.7times 10^{20}/N_H$. The values of $frm_{DMG}$ in the clouds of low extinction group ($Arm_V le 2.7$ mag) are consistent with the results of the time-dependent, chemical evolutionary model at the age of ~ 10 Myr. Our empirical relation cannot be explained by the chemical evolutionary model for clouds in the high extinction group ($Arm_V > 2.7$ mag). Compared to clouds in the low extinction group ($Arm_V le 2.7$ mag), clouds in the high extinction group ($Arm_V > 2.7$ mag) have comparable volume densities but excitation temperatures that are 1.5 times lower. Moreover, CO abundances in clouds of the high extinction group ($Arm_V > 2.7$ mag) are $6.6times 10^2$ times smaller than the canonical value in the Milky Way. #[Full version of abstract is shown in the text.]#