Triggered Star Formation and Dust around Mid-Infrared-Identified Bubbles

Abstract

We use Two Micron All Sky Survey, GLIMPSE, and MIPSGAL survey data to analyze the young stellar object (YSO) and warm dust distribution around several mid-infrared-identified bubbles. We identify YSOs using J-band to 8 um photometry and correlate their distribution relative to the PDR (as traced by diffuse 8 um emission) which we assume to be associated with and surround a HII region. We find that only 20% of the sample HII regions appear to have a significant number of YSOs associated with their PDRs, implying that triggered star formation mechanisms acting on the boundary of the expanding HII region do not dominate in this sample. We also measure the temperature of dust inside 20 HII regions using 24 um and 70 um MIPSGAL images. In eight circularly symmetric sources we analyze the temperature distribution and find shallower temperature gradients than is predicted by an analytic model. Possible explanations of this shallow temperature gradient are a radially dependent grain-size distribution and/or non-equilibrium radiative processes.

35 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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