Discovery of a Cloud Collision with the OMC-1

  • Kim, Kwang-Tae (Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Youngsik (Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences Chungnam National University)
  • 발행 : 2017.04.10

초록

Utilizing both the existing observational data for Orion A and the TRAO $^{13}CO$, $^{12}CO$ data for $1^{\circ}{\times}1^{\circ}$ region centered on M42 collected in 2012, we found a clear piece of evidence for a collision of a cloud with the OMC-1. This cloud has a shape like a long cylinder of ${\sim}0.1pc{\times}2pc$ in size, and has a well developed train of clumps of about a few solar masses, and is situated in the dark dust complex between M42 and M43. The cloud's motion is analysed to be moving at about $2.6km\;s^{-1}$, and is calculated to transverse the Orion Nebula ~2 pc above from the nebula center, toward the direction of about $60^{\circ}$ to the line of sight. This cloud had undergone a tidal splitting about a million years ago and had formed a very thin and long cylindrical core well before being engaged in the collision. General implications of this phenomenon are discussed in relation to star formation mechanisms in the GMC.

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