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Title: | Testing the Larson relations in massive clumps | Authors: | TRAFICANTE, ALESSIO Duarte-Cabral, A. ELIA, Davide Quintino Fuller, G. A. Merello, M. MOLINARI, Sergio Peretto, N. SCHISANO, EUGENIO DI GIORGIO, Anna Maria |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Journal: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Number: | 477 | Issue: | 2 | First Page: | 2220 | Abstract: | We tested the validity of the three Larson relations in a sample of 213 massive clumps selected from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane (Hi-GAL) survey, also using data from the Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz (MALT90) survey of 3-mm emission lines. The clumps are divided into five evolutionary stages so that we can also discuss the Larson relations as a function of evolution. We show that this ensemble does not follow the three Larson relations, regardless of the clump's evolutionary phase. A consequence of this breakdown is that the dependence of the virial parameter α<SUB>vir</SUB> on mass (and radius) is only a function of the gravitational energy, independent of the kinetic energy of the system; thus, α<SUB>vir</SUB> is not a good descriptor of clump dynamics. Our results suggest that clumps with clear signatures of infall motions are statistically indistinguishable from clumps with no such signatures. The observed non-thermal motions are not necessarily ascribed to turbulence acting to sustain the gravity, but they might be a result of the gravitational collapse at the clump scales. This seems to be particularly true for the most massive (M ≥ 1000 M<SUB>☉</SUB>) clumps in the sample, where exceptionally high magnetic fields might not be enough to stabilize the collapse. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30830 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/477/2/2220/4990719 | ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/sty798 | Bibcode ADS: | 2018MNRAS.477.2220T | Fulltext: | open |
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