Molecular gas in a Spitzer bubble N4: possible evidence for cloud-cloud collisions as a trigger of massive star formation

Abstract

Herein, we present the 12CO (J=1-0) and 13CO (J=1-0) emission line observations via the FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope (FUGIN) toward a Spitzer bubble N4. We observed clouds of three discrete velocities: 16, 19, and 25 km/s. Their masses were 0.1x10^4 Msun, 0.3x10^4 Msun, and 1.4x10^4 Msun, respectively. The distribution of the 25-km/s cloud likely traces the ring-like structure observed at mid-infrared wavelength. We could not find clear expanding motion of the molecular gas in N4. On the contrary, we found a bridge feature and a complementary distribution, which are discussed as observational signatures of a cloud-cloud collision, between the 16- and 25-km/s clouds. We proposed a possible scenario wherein the formation of a massive star in N4 was triggered by a collision between the two clouds; however whereas the 19-km/s cloud is possibly not a part of the interaction with N4. The time scale of collision is estimated to be 0.2-0.3 Myr, which is comparable to the estimated dynamical age of the HII region of ~0.4 Myr. In N4W, a star-forming clump located west of N4, we observed molecular outflows from young stellar objects and the observational signature of a cloud-cloud collision. Thus, we also proposed a possible scenario in which massive- or intermediate-mass star formation was triggered via a cloud-cloud collision in N4W.

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