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From Atoms to Stars. D. Li Harvard—Smithsonian CfA. Darkness Among Stars. Barnard: “ Not Holes in the Heavens ”. B68: A Prototypical Dark Clouds. Discovery of Interstellar Hydrogen. Improved Vision and Expanding Horizon. 1970: Discovery of Interstellar CO 1980: Discovery of Outflow
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From Atoms to Stars D. Li Harvard—Smithsonian CfA SHAO, 2003
Darkness Among Stars SHAO, 2003
Barnard: “Not Holes in the Heavens” SHAO, 2003
B68: A Prototypical Dark Clouds SHAO, 2003
Discovery of Interstellar Hydrogen SHAO, 2003
Improved Vision and Expanding Horizon • 1970: Discovery of Interstellar CO • 1980: Discovery of Outflow • 1983: Launch of IRAS • 90s: HST and CHANDRA • Young stars formed in dense molecular clouds. • Stellar energetics affect the physics and chemistry of ISM SHAO, 2003
"Cores" and Outflows Molecular or Dark Clouds Jets and Disks Solar System Formation Star and Planet Formation SHAO, 2003
H2 Formation On Dust Grains Production rate (s-1cm-3 ) Conversion time scale (yr) H2 Dissociation By Cosmic Rays Destruction Rate(cm-3 s-1) (Williams et al. 1992) How Molecular Are Molecular Clouds? • (Hollenbach & Salpeter 1970; • Buch & Zhang 1991) SHAO, 2003
HI Density In Dark Clouds • Dark Clouds Conditions: • Steady State Solutions of Atomic Hydrogen Density • n1 is independent of H2 density! • Abundance depends on density. • The amount of cold HI depends on the size of the shielded region. SHAO, 2003
Galactic HI Absorption SHAO, 2003
Canadian Galactic Plane Survey • CGPS HI image of ‘HI Self-Absorption’ (HISA) • CO-HISA correlation? inconclusive. • CO-H2 correlation? Inconclusive (Gibson et al. 2000) SHAO, 2003
Detecting Cold HI - HINarrow Self Absorption • Called ‘self-absorption’ in order to differentiate from absorption against continuum sources • HI Self-Absorption is different from the usual meaning of ‘self’, as in the case of thick tracer like CO. • In case of HI absorption caused by dark clouds, HINSA could be a less confusing alternative. SHAO, 2003
Colder Gas in CNM Phases in neutral medium (Wolfire et al. 1995) Cold Neutral Medium: T~80 K Warm Neutral Medium: T~8000 K • Existence for colder CNM (T<40 K) • Continuum absorption: Heiles 2001, Kalbella et al. 1985 • HI self-absorption (HISA): Knee & Brunt 2001 SHAO, 2003
HI Self Absorption • Cold feature revealed in deficiency of emission GSH139-03-69 (Knee and Brunt, 2001 Nature) SHAO, 2003
Past Observations-Technical Limitations • Haystack 120ft: 25’; 0.5km/s (Myers et al. 1978) • Green Bank 140ft: 21’; 0.4 km/s(Knapp 1974) • 76m Lovell Telescope:12’; 0.5 km/s (McCutcheon et al.1978; Montgomery et al. 1995 ) • Effelsberg 100m: 9’, 0.5 km/s (Wilson & Minn 1977; Batrla et al. 1983; Poppel et al. 1983) • Arecibo 300m: 4’, 1 km/s (Baker & Burton 1979, Bania & Lockman 1984) • VLA & DRAO: 1’ - 1.5’, 1.3 km/s (Van der Werf et al. 1988, 1989; Gibson et al. 2000) SHAO, 2003
Arecibo: Upgraded Point-focused with secondary and tertiary Wider bandwidth LO and better backends Central panel patched Surface readjustment underway SHAO, 2003
Arecibo HI Survey of Dark Clouds • Cold Atomic Hydrogen in Dark Clouds? • Self Absorption v.s. Narrow Line Absorption • CO Observations at FCRAO • CI Data from SWAS • The Correlation of Tracers • HI, OH, CO, 13CO, C18O, CI • Column Density of Cold HI and Its Abundance • H2Formation Models SHAO, 2003
HI and OH Survey of Dark Clouds at Arecibo • Observe HI/OH simultaneously Four independent correlator boards centered on 1667MHz, 1665MHz, 1420MHz (narrow), 1420MHz (wide) • High sensitivity L wide receiver: Tsys ~ 30k Gain ~ 10k/Jy • High frequency and adequate spatial resolution • 780Hz Channel width, 0.14 km/s velocity resolution for OH, 0.16 km/s for HI • ~3.4’ FWHM beam at 21cm corresponding to 0.14pc at the distance of Taurus • Stable baseline: total powerONLY ‘ON’mode, avoid uncertainties caused by HI emission variations SHAO, 2003
Survey Statistics: HI NLA Detection Rate • 23 sources with clear HI NLA (cont.) • Detection rate: 77% • Similar Turbulent content HINSA vs. OH Average non-thermal line width (km/s) OH 0.83; HI 0.84 The raw line width of HI is on average ~1km/s, less than two channels in DRAO survey. The average depth is less than 2 RMS noise in DRAO survey. SHAO, 2003
Three-Component Radiative Transfer SHAO, 2003
Two Useful Limiting Cases • Without foreground: absorber is equivalent to an emitting cloud at the temperature differential • With optically thin foreground and Tb=Tf cf. Van der Werf et al. 1988 SHAO, 2003
Column Density of HI • Total HI column density derived from optical depth of the 21cm line: • Average HI column density: • If using C18O, the abundance [HI/H2] is 0.15% • Under the standard model, this corresponds to a cloud size ~ 1pc, about 24’ at Taurus distance • 7.2x1018 cm-2 SHAO, 2003
Evidence of Cold HI: Temperature Upper Limit Estimates • The narrow line width of HI NLA indicates an upper limit of kinetic temperature • Optically thick limit in radiative transfer provides an upper limit of excitation temperature SHAO, 2003
Correlation of Centroid Velocity HINLA is definitely coincide with molecules SHAO, 2003
HINLA Correlations with CO and CI SHAO, 2003
Extremely Good Correlation of HI Narrow Self-Absorption and Molecular Emission Lines SHAO, 2003
HINSA: Conclusions • HINSA with v < 2 km s-1 is a widespread phenomenon associated with dark clouds . • The narrow line atomic hydrogen has significant column density N(HINSA)~7x1018 cm-2, making it the third most abundant species of molecular clouds after H2 and He. • HINSA is produced in regions of moderate extinctions with Av > a few. • HINSA has very low temperature ~15K and is most likely mixed with well shielded molecular gas SHAO, 2003
How Fast Does Star Form? • Conventional View • Core: Ambipolar diffusion • Collapse: Inside-out • Jets: Deuterium Burning, Stellar energetics starts to take over • Accretion Disk: the termination of infall will determine the final mass of the new star. • Fast Star Formation? • Clouds form by HI stream interaction (Hartmann et al. 2001) • Stars are formed on a dynamical time scale (~Myr). • Clouds are dispersed by stellar energy output (Elmegreen 2000) SHAO, 2003
Evidence of “FAST” SF SHAO, 2003
Ophiuchus SHAO, 2003
Clump and Inter-Clump Structure SHAO, 2003
Pursing the Elusive B Field • The ionization ratio in dark clouds < 10-6 • Zeeman effect: Polarization experiment • Less than 15 credible detection in the past 30 years • Require strong lines, and large Lande g factor • Successful tracer(s) • OH for molecular clouds • HI for CNM • CN, CCS experiments still going on => HINSA SHAO, 2003
HI Fractional Abundances are ~ 10 x Greater than Steady State Values SHAO, 2003
Gas-Grain Reaction Network of H2 Formation • The variable set • The parameters set SHAO, 2003
HI Fractional Abundance Measures TIME since start of Atomic to Molecular Conversion SHAO, 2003
HMSF vs. LMSF • Spatial Distinction • LMSF region: Taurus • GMCs: Orion • “Intermediate”: Ophiuchus • “Thermal” vs.“Turbulent” Cores • Initial Conditions? • Super vs. Sub Critical • Evolutionary Paths? • No pre-main-sequence for HMSF? SHAO, 2003
HMSF: Time Scale • Different Time Scales/Paths • Infall time scale: • Kelvin-Helmholtz: 1 M: tKH~107 yr, M>5MtKH <tinf no pre-main-sequence! • Different Initial Conditions • Massive cores could be supercriticalfragmentation?, cluster formation? Binary? SHAO, 2003
Surreptitious Discovery SHAO, 2003
From Atoms to Stars: Known and Unknown • H2 formed on dust grains in shielded regions Are molecular complexes formed quickly along with H2 gas or through congregation of long existing H2 clouds (Allen and Pringle 1997)? • Star formation happens in dense cores What are the triggering factor, density or column density? • High mass star formation happens only in a subsample of star forming clouds. Are all star formation fast? • Stellar energetics affect the physics and chemistry of their host clouds. Will the cloud be dispersed or the turbulence be resuscitated? Time scale / Mass spectrum / Dominant process SHAO, 2003
How to Proceed From Here? • We have defined a large-scale survey of the Taurus region for HINSA to be carried out using ALFA – the L-band 7 element focal plane array • Map several hundred square degrees with good sensitivity • Compare with 12CO and 13CO maps from FCRAO (300 hours of telescope time already awarded) • ~ 100 hours of AO observing time required to get high sensitivity maps of COLD and WARM HI SHAO, 2003
TheALFA – TAUProject • When we compare the kinematics of cold and warm atomic gas -- are they the same? • What is the relationship of the atomic and the molecular gas? • What is the characteristic timescale for dark cloud cores as traced by residual HI? • Can we develop a scenario for the evolution from atomic to molecular material and then from molecular clouds to cores to young stars? SHAO, 2003
2 degrees ~ 10 pc SIRTF Legacy Survey SIRTFNASA’s Space InfraRed Telescope Facility SHAO, 2003
The COordinated Molecular Probe Line Extinction Thermal Emission Survey } COMPLETE SHAO, 2003
5 degrees (~tens of pc) SIRTF Legacy Coverage of Perseus COMPLETE Observations: 2003--Mid- and Far-IR SIRTF Legacy Observations: dust temperature and column density maps ~5 degrees mapped with ~15" resolution (at 70 m) 2002-- NICER/2MASS Extinction Mapping: dust column density maps ~5 degrees mapped with ~5' resolution 2003-- SCUBA Observations: dust column density maps, finds all "cold" source ~20" resolution on all AV>2” 2002-- FCRAO/SEQUOIA 13CO and 13CO Observations: gas temperature, density and velocity information ~40" resolution on all AV>1 Science: • Combined Thermal Emission data: dust spectral-energy distributions, giving emissivity, Tdust and Ndust • Extinction/Thermal Emission inter-comparison: unprecedented constraints on dust properties and cloud distances, in addition to high-dynamic range Ndust map • Spectral-line/Ndust Comparisons Systematic censes of inflow, outflow & turbulent motions enabled • CO maps in conjunction with SIRTF point sources will comprise YSOoutflow census >10-degree scale Near-IR Extinction, Molecular Line and Dust Emission Surveys of Perseus, Ophiuchus & Serpens SHAO, 2003
Faster and Larger • Focal plane receiver arrays • FCRAO: 32 pixels • SHARC II: 384 pixels • ALFA: 7 • APEX: 300 • Large single dish and Interferometer • LMT: 50m • GBT: 100m • SMA: ~1’ • ALMA: 0.01 arcsec SHAO, 2003
From Atoms to Stars H=>H2 => Cloud Complex => Core=>Protostars ALFA-Tau COMPLETE SHAO, 2003