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Silicon Bearing Molecules in Molecular Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. Martín-Pintado
Affiliation:
Centro Astronómico de Yebes (IGN), Apdo. 148, E-19080 Guadalajara, Spain
J. Gómez-González
Affiliation:
Centro Astronómico de Yebes (IGN), Apdo. 148, E-19080 Guadalajara, Spain
R. Bachiller
Affiliation:
Centro Astronómico de Yebes (IGN), Apdo. 148, E-19080 Guadalajara, Spain
P. Planesas
Affiliation:
Centro Astronómico de Yebes (IGN), Apdo. 148, E-19080 Guadalajara, Spain
V. Bujarrabal
Affiliation:
Centro Astronómico de Yebes (IGN), Apdo. 148, E-19080 Guadalajara, Spain

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We have used the IRAM 30-m telescope to make high angular resolution observations of the silicon-bearing molecule, SiO and SiS in region of massive star formation. We have mapped the J=2-l and the J=5-4 lines of SiO with angular resolutions of 26 and 12” respectively. For all the sources mapped, the SiO emission is more extended that the beam. The extreme cases are found toward NGC7538 and W49N where the SiO emission has sizes of 1x0.5 pc and 2.8x1 pc respectively. This result is in contrast with the size of the SiO region in Orion-IRc2 which is of the order 0.03 pc. The maxima of the SiO emission are found at the position of the H2O masers. This indicates, as previously thought, that SiO emission probes the high temperature regions and/or the shocked gas and dust surrounding young stars. In the DR21(OH) region we have found the unique SiO source which is not associated to H20 maser emission. This SiO condensation is 40” south of DR21(OH) and it was first detected as a source of 350µm emission. The SiO emission is elongated in the east-west direction. From an analysis of the FIR continuum emission this object appears to be cool (Tk < 30) and it has been proposed that this source represents a pre-stellar condensation which may be evolving toward the star formation stage. The detection of SiO, howevwer, casts some doubts about the evolutionary stage of this source. Futher high angular resolution observations are necessary to establish the nature of this source.

Type
I. Molecular Clouds, Star Formation And HII Regions
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