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Star Formation in the Galaxy and the MUBLO
- Postdocs: Miriam Garcia Santa Maria (2024-), Allison Towner (2020-2023)
- PhD: Desmond Jeff, Theo Richardson, Alyssa Bulatek, Nazar Budaiev, Savannah Gramze, Taehwa Yoo
- Undergrad: Derod Deal, Aden Dawson
- Supported by NSF 2008101, 2206511, CAREER 2142300, STSCI 1905, 2221, 3523, Astropy
Collaborators:
John Bally, Ashley Barnes, Cara Battersby,
Roberto Galván-Madrid,
Jonathan Henshaw, J. M. Diederik
Kruijssen, Steven Longmore, Xing Lu, Fanyi Meng, Elisabeth A.C.
Mills, Juergen Ott, Justin Otter, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge,
Peter Schilke, Daniel Walker, Erik Rosolowsky, Eric Koch, Ciriaco
Goddi, Brett McGuire, Dick Plambeck, Melvyn Wright,
Johan van der Walt,
Henrik Beuther, Kei Tanaka, Yichen Zhang,
the ALMA-IMF team (Timea Csengeri, Fabien Louvet,
Nichol Cunningham, Frederique Motte, Patricio Sanhueza, Thomas
Nony, Yohan Pouteau, Melisse Bonfand, Fernando Olguin, Sylvain Bontemps, and
many others), and the ACES team
Slides available at
https://keflavich.github.io/talks/colloquium_Sep2024_Columbia.html or from my webpage →talks
Star formation drives the evolution of the universe
Star Formation oversimplified
Ṁ
The star formation rate, i.e., how much gas turns to stars
L / M
The light per unit mass, i.e., how stars and stellar populations turn matter into light
High-mass stars produce photons & heavy elements
low-mass stars live practically forever
Point color shows effective temperature, point size shows luminosity (left) and mass (right)
The stellar initial mass function (IMF)
Stars are sampled from this distribution
(but it's not universal)
High-mass stars populate the stellar graveyard
Almost all of the light in star-forming galaxies is produced by high-mass stars
The stars form in and from gas (as traced by dust)
Most of what we know of star formation in detail comes from small local clouds
Most of what we know of star formation in detail comes from small local clouds
Cartoon of isolated low-mass star formation
A molecular cloud fragments
The core forms a central protostar
The protostar heats its parent core and forms a disk
It drives an outflow and consumes (or runs from or blows out) its core
Eventually, you end with just a star-disk system
Cartoon of isolated low-mass star formation
The isolated cartoon is wrong in several ways
Cores fragment.
Massive stars cook their neighbors in hot cores.
Most of what we know of star formation in detail comes from small local clouds
They contain only low-mass stars and do not represent star formation in general
Most stars form in denser regions
NGC 3603 is a high-mass (104 M⊙) cluster
Lada & Lada 2003:
5-10% in bound clusters
in our Galaxy
5-10% in bound clusters
in our Galaxy
High-mass clusters have top-heavier IMFs
Proto-cluster regions in our Galaxy sample conditions that were commonplace in the early universe
Are top-heavy IMFs limited to clusters?
NGC 3603 & Westerlund 1
SSCs are common in starburst nuclei and drive galactic outflows
NGC 253 protoclusters (Leroy+2018)
NGC 4945 protoclusters (Emig+2020)
Star formation drives the evolution of the universe
Most stars in most galaxies formed long ago
Galaxies were smaller & denser back then
STSCI; Pappovich, Ferguson, Faber, Labbe
Big Questions in Star Formation
I'll highlight incremental progress toward answering some of these
spiced with a few intriguing discoveries
- How does the IMF vary, and what controls its variation?
- What controls the star formation rate in galaxies?
- When and how do planets form?
- How does stellar clustering affect each of these?
- What initiates star formation?
- What Processes Govern Protostellar Evolution and Determine the Stellar Mass and Rotation Rate?
- How do Massive Stars Form?
- What is Lifetime of Molecular Clouds (and the Duration of Star Formation)?
- What Physics Determines the Initial Mass Function?
- What Physics Regulates the Rate & Efficiency?
- What Role Does Environment Play in Star and Planet Formation?
- What Physics Regulates Star Formation in Clusters?
- How homogeneous are clusters?
- What is the role of feedback (outflow, radiation, wind, etc) in star formation?
- What is the role of disks in star and planet formation?
- How do multiple systems form?
Our Galaxy
Gaia star colors via ESA
Our Galaxy
2MASS via IPAC
Our Galaxy
Planck + HI4PI via lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov
Our Galaxy
HI: "Diffuse" gas
HI4PI
Our Galaxy
Dust
Planck
Our Galaxy
CO: molecular gas
Planck
Our Galaxy
the gas & dust where stars form
the gas & dust where stars form: Orion
the gas & dust where stars form: Orion
the gas & dust where stars form: Orion
the gas & dust where stars form: Orion
The Integral-Shaped filament has $\sim10^4$ M$_\odot$ of gas over $\sim$10 pc Kong+ 2018 CARMA-Orion surveythe gas & dust where stars form: Orion
The Orion Molecular Cloud is the closest (d$\sim400$ pc) site of high-mass star formationthe gas & dust where stars form: Orion
BOOM! Orion Source I
a disk around a 15 M⊙ YSO
Salt: NaCl
Temperature?
Temperature?
A contrived model
Observing the Keplerian rotation profile of a disk is the most direct way to measure a protostar's mass
(we can only see the disk, not the star itself)
Salt is a tool to weigh HMYSOs
Keplerian orbits measure mass
More Brinary disks
Ginsburg+ 2023: New sample. Miriam Garcia Santa-Maria is following up
Briny chemistry:
Salts, SiS, SiO, and PN are seen together [but limited spectral coverage]
The Orion Molecular Cloud Core is a dense cluster
FOV: 0.07 pc (16000 AU)
Likely the only gas-rich protocluster with a complete YSO census:
ALMA (Otter), VLA (Ballering, Wright), Chandra, JWST....
N*OMC(Otter+ 2021) = 1.6 x 105 pc-3
N*ONC(Otter+ 2021) = 0.6 x 105 pc-3
N*ONC(Hillenbrand+ 1998) = 0.2 x 105 pc-3
Most stars form in denser regions
NGC 1333, an embedded low-mass cluster
Lada & Lada 2003: >70% in embedded clusters
500 years ago, four or more stars were in a multiple system
The old picture involved source n, but it's not moving fast enough
Clusters are sites of interactions & collisions
The BN/I/x interaction is the poster case of accretion ended by dynamical interaction.
...even though Orion is only a medium-mass proto-open-cluster
Interactions are (probably) more common in high-mass clusters
The outflow (& disk) around W51 North changed direction by ~50 deg
in < 100 years.
0.25-0.5 M⊙ accreted
We don't know the frequency of these events; they are likely bright transients, but most often heavily dust-obscured
The Inner Galaxy is where most stars form
The Inner Galaxy is where most stars form
ALMA-IMF: 15 high-mass star-forming regions
Orange layer shows ATLASGAL 870$\mu$m dust:the dense gas where stars form
ALMA-IMF: 15 high-mass star-forming regions
Orange layer shows ATLASGAL 870$\mu$m dust:the dense gas where stars form ALMA-IMF targets are among the most massive between 2-6 kpc from the sun
1mm Dust
[ALMA]
870 μm Dust
[APEX/ATLASGAL]
1mm Dust
[ALMA]
870 μm Dust
[APEX/ATLASGAL]
1mm Dust
[ALMA]
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[APEX/ATLASGAL]
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[ALMA]
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[ALMA]
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[ALMA]
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[APEX/ATLASGAL]
ALMA-IMF data highlights
Gas flows in N2H+ filaments (Álvarez-Gutiérrez+ 2024)
Collapse is slower on larger scales, but fast enough to matter.
ALMA-IMF: Continuum Data → core catalogs
Pouteau+ 2022 W43-MM2/3
(these papers are all now submitted or accepted, but this is a screenshot that includes everyone's photos...)
However, a core is not a core.
≠
Context: Recent CMF measurements
ALMA-IMF: CMF measurement & YSO counting
- Continuum data paper
- Survey overview (Motte+ 2022)
- Cores in W43 (Nony+ 2023)
- Shallow CMF in W43-MM2/3 (Pouteau+ 2022),
evolution (Pouteau+ 2023)
- CMF slope α ≲ 1
- 8 Hot Cores in W43 (Brouillet+ 2022) & ~60 more (Bonfand+ 2024)
- Line Data paper (Cunningham+ 2023)
- Single-dish combination (Díaz-González+ 2023)
- SiO Outflow catalog (Towner+ 2023)
- 320 SiO outflows cataloged
- Catalog paper (Louvet+ 2024)
- ~1000 cores cataloged, CMF steeper than IMF
- Gas infall kinematics (Álvarez-Gutiérrez+ 2024), Garrido+, Koley+ in prep
- Dust temperature / column maps with PPMAP (Dell Ova+ 2024)
- H41α estimates of free-free emission (Galván-Madrid+ 2024)
(these papers are all now submitted or accepted, but this is a screenshot that includes everyone's photos...)
Classic model: a "core mass function" maps to the IMF
Many alternatives, no consensus on which is best
≠
Cores change states
...but the naïve version doesn't work
ALMA-IMF "Core" Mass CDF
The CMF in protoclusters is shallower than the IMF
Louvet+ 2024
Many! Differ in: resolution, algorithm, selection.
Nearby surveys are only-starless; more distant are starless + protostellar
| Publication | Distance | Ncores | Mmin | Mmax | Resoln [au] | Slope | "stage" | Figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louvet+ 2024 | 2-6 | 330 | 1.64 | 200 | 2000 | 0.97 | HM | |
| Zhang+ 2024 | 0.4 | 927 | 0.3 | 20 | 8000 | 1.4 | LM |  |
| Armante+ 2024 | 2.4 | 80 | 0.03 | 13.2 | 2000 | 1.44 | HII |  |
| Cheng+2024 | 4.5 | 183 | 0.5 | 10 | 3000 | 1.15 | HM |  |
| Pouteau+ 2023 | 6 | 205 | 0.8 | 70 | 2500 | 0.93 | HM |  |
| Li+ 2023 | 0.7 | 570 | 4 | 200 | 15000 | 1.35 | LM |  |
| Suárez+ 2021 | 7.1 | 40 | 2.0 | 59 | 1000 | 1.11 | HII |  |
| Könyves+ 2020 | 0.4 | 292 | 0.2 | 20 | 8000 | 1.33 | LM |  |
| ... | ||||||||
How does the CMF become the IMF?
Many cores are protostellar - so there's a mass correction
The path to better mass measurement:
Theo Richardson
The path to better mass measurement:
Theo Richardson
Is star formation different in other environments?
Is star formation different in other environments?
Is star formation different in other environments?
Is star formation different in other environments?
Is star formation different in other environments?
Comparison of Sgr B2 (one cloud, 200 pc2) with
The MUBLO: Millimeter Ultra Broad-Line Object
Broad-Line: FWHM~160 km s-1
Broad-Line (broader than the CMZ, but only <2")
Weird chemistry (no SiO?!?)
Dusty
...and cold, using SO LTE model
No NIR counterpart
No counterparts!
Hypotheses & Data
Bonus slides past here
Hot Cores
Ices
Line Surveys
Desmond Jeff+ 2024
Ten hot cores in Sgr B2 DS
outside the massive clusters
The Brick isn't forming many stars
The Brick is icy
The Brick is icy
Building new tools: Spectral Line Survey of The Brick
Salt backup slides
What's next for salts?
(VLA 22A-022, 23A-016)
Deep VLA observations of low-J lines in Orion
Classic HII region feedback:
The Jeans Mass MJ is the mass where gravity and thermal pressure are balanced.
MJ ∝ T3/2 ρ−1/2
Large scales again:
ALMA enables protostar counting in
The path to better mass measurement:
YSO modeling → luminosity functions
Richardson, Ginsburg, Indebetouw, Robitaille 2024 (2401.12810)
NSF 2008101:
"How are stellar masses set?"
"How are stellar masses set?"
Theo Richardson
The path to better mass measurement:
YSO modeling → luminosity functions
Theo Richardson
How does the CMF become the IMF?
Some cores fragment, some disappear
Taehwa Yoo+: fragmentation
toward W51
toward W51
What's inside the cores?
What's inside the cores?
What's inside the cores?
How does the CMF become the IMF?
Some cores fragment, some disappear
Taehwa Yoo+: fragmentation
toward W51
toward W51
How does the CMF become the IMF?
Some cores fragment, some disappear
Taehwa Yoo+: fragmentation
toward W51
toward W51
How does the CMF become the IMF?
Some cores fragment, some disappear
Budaiev+ 2024: fragmentation in Sgr B2
How does the CMF become the IMF?
Trend: More massive cores fragment more.
How does the CMF become the IMF?
Trend: More massive cores make more massive single stars
Several different scenarios: mix of mechanisms
Is star formation different in other environments?
In the Galactic Center?
Is star formation different in other environments?
In the Galactic Center?
Is star formation different in other environments?
In the Galactic Center?
Is star formation different in other environments?
In the Galactic Center?
Is star formation different in other environments?
In the Galactic Center?
The CMZ
$\sim10^8$ M$_\odot$ of gas in $\sim200$ pc, 10% of Galactic star formationThe Central Molecular Zone of the Galaxy represents one extreme of star forming conditions in the Galaxy
The CMZ gas is constantly replenished, as seen in "Extreme Velocity Features"
Savannah Gramze
How does gas flow into the Galactic Center?
We think the ring-like feature formed in this simulation is a good model for the CMZSormani+ in prep
The CMZ:
CMZOOM (SMA survey) & early ALMA surveys started to map high-mass star formation
Battersby+ 2020,
Hatchfield+ 2020,
Callanan+ 2023,
Hatchfield+ 2024
The proto-Super Star Cluster Sgr B2 dominates SF in the CMZ
Two $>10^4$ M$_\odot$ clusters within $<3$ pc; $10^6$ M$_\odot$ of gas in $\sim10$ pcIn denser (parts of) galaxies, more stars form in clusters
Γ is the fraction of stars forming in bound clusters
Galaxy averages
The "Bound Cluster Fraction" is predicted higher in the CMZ
Γ is the fraction of stars forming in bound clusters
Galaxy averages
CMZ prediction
The "Bound Cluster Fraction" is higher in CMZs
Γ is the fraction of stars forming in bound clusters
Galaxy averages
CMZ prediction
Sgr B2 data
Sgr B2 data
The "Bound Cluster Fraction" was higher in the past
Zoom in to Sgr B2
The proto-Super Star Cluster Sgr B2 dominates SF in the CMZ
Two $>10^4$ M$_\odot$ clusters within $<3$ pc; $10^6$ M$_\odot$ of gas in $\sim10$ pcThe proto-Super Star Cluster Sgr B2 dominates SF in the CMZ
Two $>10^4$ M$_\odot$ clusters within $<3$ pc; $10^6$ M$_\odot$ of gas in $\sim10$ pcComparison of Sgr B2 (one cloud, 200 pc2) with
ALMA-IMF (15 SFRs, 53 pc2)
3mm catalog → Simplistic mass inferences
At this sensitivity, all are M>8⊙ YSOs
Mtot = 8 M⊙
∫0∞ M N(M) dM
∫8∞ M N(M) dM
∫8∞ M N(M) dM
= 96 M ⊙
The "Bound Cluster Fraction" is higher in CMZs
Γ is the fraction of stars forming in bound clusters
Galaxy averages
CMZ prediction
Sgr B2 data
Sgr B2 data
Higher CMF + top-heavy cluster IMF = top-heavy CMZ IMF
The CMZ: ACES
The first complete survey of the CMZ with 2.4" resolution (previous best was ~15")
between ~2 microns and 10 cm.
between ~2 microns and 10 cm.
Results forthcoming! Continuum, line data papers, catalogs, kinematic analyses, filament identifications all in prep....
... but the first result is unrelated (?) to star formation:
Summary
Dynamical interactions are common where stars form
Most stars form in regions unlike the solar neighborhood
Weird things abound
and they are more common in clusters. Environment matters!
Most stars form in regions unlike the solar neighborhood
- Shallower Core Mass Function in richer SF regions
- The Galactic Center forms more stars in clusters
Weird things abound
- Gas-phase salt is prominent in disks around high-mass stars
- There's an extremely broad linewidth, compact source in the Galactic Center
Final segment:
Astrochemistry:Hot Cores
Ices
Line Surveys
F187N F182M F150W
F210M F187N F182M
F212N F210M F187W
F300M F212N F210M
F360M F300M F212N
F405N F360M F300M
F410M F405N F360M
F466N F410M F300M
F466N F410M F405N
F480M F410M F360M
F480M F466N F410M
F200W F182M F115W
F212N F200W F182M
F356W F212N F200W
F410M F356W F212N
F444W F410M F356W
F466N F444W F410M
keflavich.github.io/talks/EPOS_2024.html for more about the Brick
Hot cores in the Galactic center: Distributed MYSOs
Desmond Jeff+ 2024
Ten hot cores in Sgr B2 DS
outside the massive clusters
TG ~ 200-500 K
M ~ 200 - 2900 M⊙
(proto-O-stars / clusters)
~5% of cores are hot cores
M ~ 200 - 2900 M⊙
(proto-O-stars / clusters)
~5% of cores are hot cores
Sgr B2 DS: More massive cores than the Disk
Hot Cores
Hot cores are chemically rich sites of high-mass star formation.
They are only found in the more distant disk & CMZ regions
They are only found in the more distant disk & CMZ regions
Hot Cores
Hot cores are chemically rich sites of high-mass star formation.
They are only found in the more distant disk & CMZ regions
They are only found in the more distant disk & CMZ regions
Alyssa Bulatek: Spectral Line Survey of The Brick
- Dasar line at 107 GHz
- CH3OH only in absorption
- Occurs at density $n<10^6 \mathrm{cm}^{-3}$
Some notes on Data Scale
Brinary disks
The SrcI disk has gas-phase salt (NaCl, KCl) and water (H2O).
So it's brine.
(blame Adam Leroy for this term)
IRAS16547A/B (Tanaka+ 2020)
have (unresolved) salt water disks
Brine lines measure dynamical mass
NaCl v=1 J=18-17
Stack of v=[0,1] Ju=[18,17]
SrcI
15 M⊙
30 M⊙
40 M⊙
What have we learned about brinaries?
- Neither common nor rare: 10 known so far, >23 HMYSO candidates examined
- Y: SrcI, G17, IRAS16547, NGC6334I, G351.77, W33A
- Ginsburg+ 2019, Tanaka+ 2020, Ginsburg+ 2022
- N: I16523, I18089, G11, G5, NGC6334IN, S255IR NIRS3, G333.23-0.06, I18162
- Ginsburg+ 2022
- Y: SrcI, G17, IRAS16547, NGC6334I, G351.77, W33A
- Coincide w/line-poor sources
- Not hot cores; little mass reservoir?
- Trace reasonably symmetric disks (in the well-resolved cases)
- there is some ambiguity b/w disk & outflow in one case
Compare: G17 vs G11
G17: Brinary
Hot (ionizing) photosphere. Circular disk.
G11: Not-Brinary
Molecule rich, kinematically messy & extended
W51 e2e: Too optically thick at 1mm to measure disk
CS v=0 J=1-0 and v=0 J=2-1 masers may trace the disk?
M = 24-10+12M⊙
if the masers trace a disk
if the masers trace a disk
CS maser conditions
van der Walt+ 2020- Top: CS J=1-0, Bottom: CS J=2-1
- Red: Consistent w/W51e2e observations
- Masers do not coexist; require different specific CS column
(N2-1=1015.6, N1-01016.1 cm-2) - Require high abundance (XCS > 10-5)
- Hot (300-500 K), moderate-density (n~105 cm-3): Disk surface? Or outflow cavity wall?
Possible future uses for these lines?
- Metallicity measurement in deeply embedded star-forming environments? (at least of Na, K, Cl)
- Disk kinematics of high-mass stars, which are otherwise unobservable (τ>1 at mm wavelengths)
- Disk kinematic measurements at early stages?
- Probe dust destruction (and/or formation?) in outflows, disks?
- Probe radiation environment around HMYSOs?
Why do we see salt?
- Previously, NaCl & KCl only in AGB* atmospheres,
associated with dust formation - Most likely dust destruction here
Dust destruction happens immediately as the outflow is launched? - What about excitation? We see vibrationally excited lines, which are not seen in AGB*s
We do not have a viable model to explain these temperatures
A strong non-blackbody radiation field from 25-40 µm may explain them.
Forsterite (MgSiO4) has some emission bands in that range. Maybe?
Deep VLA observations of low-J lines in Orion
How is star formation in high-mass clusters different?
- Feedback from one star affects many in clustered regions
- IMF depends on density, feedback, global conditions (e.g., Jones & Bate 2018, Narayanan & Dave 2012)
- Total star formation efficiency is higher.
- Collisions assemble the most massive stars?
(e.g., Fujii+ & PZ 2013, but see Moeckel & Clarke 2011)
Cartoon of high- and low-mass star formation
Main difference: massive stars affect their surroundings
Classic HII region feedback:
O-stars clear out their environment
Accreting massive young stars affect their environment
Accreting massive young stars affect their environment
Accreting massive young stars affect their environment
The characteristic fragmentation scale
The Jeans Mass MJ is the mass where gravity and thermal pressure are balanced.
MJ ∝ T3/2 ρ−1/2
The characteristic fragmentation scale is larger
Jeans Mass
MJ ∝ T3/2 ρ−1/2
Feedback affects dense gas
ALMA + VLA + GBT together give multiple temperature probes on multiple scales.
High-mass protoclusters are filled with gas warmed by feedback.
Ginsburg+ 2017, Machado+ in prep
The cartoon in the context of HMSF
These high mass cores suppress low-mass star formation (LMSF) in their vicinity.
They reduce or prevent LMSF in the cores of stellar clusters.
More extreme: 'cooperative accretion'
With enough high-mass stars forming concurrently, massive stars may prevent fragmentation entirely.
If they still have enough gravity to bind the gas, the remaining gas is forced onto the most massive gravitational sinks.
If they still have enough gravity to bind the gas, the remaining gas is forced onto the most massive gravitational sinks.
Large scales again:
What governs the star formation rate?
Turbulent ISM models
Turbulent ISM models
Turbulent ISM models
Measuring Line Profiles
SCOUSE uses pyspeckit for manual fits. Gausspy+ is machine-learning trained. We're exploring more automated approaches. ALMA enables protostar counting in
distant, massive clouds
Sgr B2: the most massive & star-forming cloud in the Galaxy
How do we learn about clustering? The IMF?
- Count objects:
- Cores are (sometimes) countable
- Protostars are countable
YSO counts let us investigate thresholds
Local cloud studies support the idea of a gas density threshold for star formation
Thresholds are used in simulations to say
"if gas reaches this density, turn it into stars"
"if gas reaches this density, turn it into stars"
Compare YSO counts in Sgr B2 and the CMC
Is there a threshold?
Is there a threshold?
A threshold separates Sgr B2 from The Brick
Walker+ 2021
3mm Luminosity Function
What are the sources?
At this sensitivity, all are M>8⊙ YSOs
Mass measurements: Optically thin, isothermal dust
TD estimated with PPMAP fits to Herschel data
(~6" resolution)
Simple models assuming TD ~ f(M) don't change CMF much
We can do better with YSO models and TG measurements
From YSO counts to the IMF?
How do we measure the CMF if the cores all have YSOs in them?
Mapping accretion histories
(left: IS, right: TC)
onto the Robitaille 2017 model grid
Key addition:
Envelope mass!
(left: IS, right: TC)
onto the Robitaille 2017 model grid
Key addition:
Envelope mass!
SPICY-ALMA-IMF:
ALMA-IMF:
ALMA-IMF:
Allison Towner
Nazar has cataloged 100s of new masers in Sgr B2 (VLA 18A-229)
A quick look at what's coming: Nazar has cataloged 100s of new masers in Sgr B2 (VLA 18A-229)
VLA 19A-154
Richardson-enhanced Robitaille+ 2017 model grid
fits including ALMA data
UG team:
Sydney Petz
Brice Tingle
Morgan Himes
Brice Tingle
Morgan Himes
Our Galaxy's center, the CMZ, has denser gas than the Galactic average
Cold Dust
Hot, ionized gas
Hot dust/PAHs
Hot, ionized gas
Hot dust/PAHs
ALMA-IMF:
The CMF is shallow (top-heavy) in HMSFRs
ALMA-IMF:
The CMF is shallow, and steepens with time?
Louvet+, subm
ALMA-IMF Line Data: 320 cataloged SiO Outflows
Allison Towner
Resolved, structured SiO outflows
5-60% of SiO at low-velocities:
Relic outflows?
Relic outflows?
ALMA-IMF Line Data: CH3CN, CH3CCH
Temperature measurements with per-pixel rotation diagrams
Jeff+ in prep (CH3OH in CMZ), Wyrowski+ in prep (CH3CN in ALMA-IMF)
Hot cores in ALMA-IMF: From rare objects to a population
Cores with line forests
TD>50 K
TG ≳100K
TD>50 K
TG ≳100K
Hot core overview:
- 9 HCs in W43-MM1 (Brouillet+ 2022)
- ~60-70 HCs in ALMA-IMF sample from CH3OCHO (Bonfand+ 2024; left)
- ~10% of continuum cores are within hot cores
- CH3CN temperature maps (Wyrowski+ in prep)
ALMA-IMF Key Results summary
- Rich, science-ready data (Ginsburg+ 2022, Cunningham+ 2023)
- CMF is top-heavy in HMSFRs (Pouteau+ 2022, Louvet+ 2024)
- Core fragmentation is not 1-to-1 [WIP] (Budaiev+ (CMZ), Yoo+ (W51), Louvet+ (W43), ...)
- 10% of $M\gtrsim1\mathrm{~M}_\odot$ cores are hot cores (Brouillet+ 2022, Bonfand+ 2024, Wyrowski+)
- Outflow feedback builds over time, sets initial conditions for many cores (Nony+ 2022, Towner+ 2023)
What's next?
Nazar has cataloged 100s of new masers in Sgr B2 (VLA 18A-229)
Ammonia Masers:
Derod Deal
VLA 19A-154