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1 School of something FACULTY OF OTHER School of Physics & Astronomy FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES AMI and Massive Star Formation Melvin Hoare

2 Evolutionary outline – High-mass Object: Molecular Core  MYSO  UCHII  Hot Star SED: Sub-mm  Mid-IR  Near-IR  Visual Radio: Undetected  Weak  Strong

3 Radio Survey for UCHII regions The Co-Ordinated Radio ‘N’ Infrared Survey for High-mass star formation or CORNISH survey High spatial resolution VLA survey of the Galactic Plane 5 GHz, 1.5  resolution (B configuration) Covers northern Spitzer GLIMPSE survey 10 o <l<65 o, |b|<1 o

4 Over-resolution of CORNISH HIIs

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6 Over-resolution/snapshot VLA B config 15 GHz snapshot Integrated flux 2.6 Jy VLA D config 15 GHz observation Integrated flux 3.9 Jy

7 Ionizing Star(s) Spectral Type Correct optically thin, integrated radio flux is crucial to determine the ionizing flux and hence spectral type of the ionizing star(s)

8 Massive Young Stellar Objects Luminous (>10 4 L  ) embedded IR point source no UCHII region - star swollen due to ongoing accretion? bipolar molecular outflow (~10 km s -1 ) ionised wind (~100 km s -1 ) GL 2591

9 MYSOs display weak radio emission A few have been resolved to show jets Proper motions show velocities ~500 km s -1 Ionized Jets Cep A2 (Patel et al. 2005)

10 Others show evidence of radiation driven disc wind Disc winds S140 IRS 1 (Hoare 2006) Drew, Proga & Stone (1998)

11 Wind Spectra Gibb & Hoare (2007)

12 Radio vs IR luminosity Clear distinction between UCHIIs and MYSOs at luminous end MYSOs also distinguished from OB star winds – MS OB stars not detected yet  Jets  Evolved OB stars Hoare & Franco (2007)

13 Red MSX Source Survey sample of about 500 MYSOs from mid-IR survey and ground-based follow-up e-Merlin Legacy programme to detect and map the winds/jets for sub-sample of 75 of these ongoing near-IR spectroscopy programmes to study H I emission line profiles which constrain outflow velocity study the ionized feedback as a function of stellar mass (luminosity) and age (embeddedness)

14 Detection of winds by AMI Non-detection by VLA 5 GHz <0.75 mJy Detection by AMI 16 GHz 1.8 mJy

15 Summary AMI can play a useful role following-up 100s of: CORNISH UCHII regions for spectral typing ionizing star(s) RMS MYSOs for (pre-) detecting wind/jet emission, although really need resolution of EVLA to be sure of detection and e-Merlin to actually resolve the emission


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