Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2024

Understanding the relative importance of magnetic field, gravity, and turbulence in star formation at the hub of the giant molecular cloud G148.24+00.41

Vineet Rawat
Chakali Eswaraiah
Jia-Wei Wang
Davide Elia
Sandhyarani Panigrahy
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D. L. Walker
C. P. Zhang

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The relative importance of magnetic fields, turbulence, and gravity in the early phases of star formation is still not well understood. We report the first high-resolution dust polarization observations at 850 $\mu$m around the most massive clump, located at the hub of the Giant Molecular Cloud G148.24+00.41, using SCUBA-2/POL-2 at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We find that the degree of polarization decreases steadily towards the denser portion of the cloud. Comparing the intensity gradients and local gravity with the magnetic field orientations, we find that local gravity plays a dominant role in driving the gas collapse as the magnetic field orientations and gravity vectors seem to point towards the dense clumps. We also find evidence of U-shaped magnetic field morphology towards a small-scale elongated structure associated with the central clump, hinting at converging accretion flows towards the clump. Our observation has resolved the massive clump into multiple substructures. We study the magnetic field properties of two regions, central clump (CC) and northeastern elongated structure (NES). Using the modified Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, we determine that the magnetic field strengths of CC and NES are ~24.0 ± 6.0 $\mu$G and 20.0 ± 5.0 $\mu$G, respectively. The mass-to-flux ratios are found to be magnetically transcritical/supercritical, while the Alfv$\acute{\text{e}}$n Mach number indicates a trans-Alfv$\acute{\text{e}}$nic state in both regions. These results, along with Virial analysis, suggest that at the hub of G148.24+00.41, gravitational energy has an edge over magnetic and kinetic energies.

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insu-04726547 , version 1 (10-10-2024)

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Vineet Rawat, M. R. Samal, Chakali Eswaraiah, Jia-Wei Wang, Davide Elia, et al.. Understanding the relative importance of magnetic field, gravity, and turbulence in star formation at the hub of the giant molecular cloud G148.24+00.41. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024, 528 (2), pp.1460-1475. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stae053⟩. ⟨insu-04726547⟩
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