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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DENSE MOLECULAR CLUMPS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

2012; IOP Publishing; Volume: 751; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0004-637x/751/1/42

1538-4357

Jonathan Seale, Leslie W. Looney, Tony Wong, J. Ott, U. Klein, J. L. Pineda,

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

We report the results of a high spatial (parsec) resolution HCO+ (J = 1 → 0) and HCN (J = 1 → 0) emission survey toward the giant molecular clouds of the star formation regions N 105, N 113, N 159, and N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The HCO+ and HCN observations at 89.2 and 88.6 GHz, respectively, were conducted in the compact configuration of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The emission is imaged into individual clumps with masses between 102 and 104 M☉ and radii of 103 M☉) clumps not bearing massive YSOs suggests that the onset of star formation occurs rapidly once the clump has attained physical properties favorable to massive star formation. Using a large sample of LMC massive YSO mid-IR spectra, we estimate that ∼2/3 of the massive YSOs for which there are Spitzer mid-IR spectra are no longer located in molecular clumps; we estimate that these young stars/clusters have destroyed their natal clumps on a timescale of at least ∼3 × 105 yr.