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School of something FACULTY OF OTHER School of Physics & Astronomy FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES AMI and Massive Star Formation Melvin Hoare
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Evolutionary outline – High-mass Object: Molecular Core MYSO UCHII Hot Star SED: Sub-mm Mid-IR Near-IR Visual Radio: Undetected Weak Strong
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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
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Over-resolution of CORNISH HIIs
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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Others show evidence of radiation driven disc wind Disc winds S140 IRS 1 (Hoare 2006) Drew, Proga & Stone (1998)
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Wind Spectra Gibb & Hoare (2007)
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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)
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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)
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Detection of winds by AMI Non-detection by VLA 5 GHz <0.75 mJy Detection by AMI 16 GHz 1.8 mJy
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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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