MALT90 molecular content on high-mass IR-dark clumps

Abstract

High mass stars form in groups or clusters within massive cores in dense molecular clumps with sizes of 1pc and masses of 200Msun which are important laboratories for high-mass star formation in order to study the initial conditions. We investigate the physical and chemical properties of high-mass clumps in order to better understand the early evolutionary stages and find targets that show star formation signs. We selected the high-mass clumps from ATLASGAL survey that were identified as dark at 8/24$\mu$m wavelengths and used MALT90 data which provides a molecular line set to investigate the physical and chemical conditions in early evolutionary stages. Eleven sources have significant SiO detection (over 3$\sigma$) which usually indicates outflow activities. Thirteen sources are found with blue profiles in both or either HCO${}^{+}$ and/or HNC lines and clump mass infall rates are estimated to be in the range of 0.2E+3 Msunyr${}^{-1}$ $-$ 1.8E-2 Msunyr${}^{-1}$. The excitation temperature is obtained as <24K for all sources. The column densities for optically thin lines of H${}^{13}$CO${}^{+}$ and HN${}^{13}$C are in the range of 0.4-8.8(E+12) cm${}^{-2}$, and 0.9-11.9(E+12) cm${}^{-2}$, respectively, while it is in the range of 0.1-7.5(E+14) cm${}^{-2}$ for HCO${}^{+}$ and HNC lines. The column densities for N${}_2$H${}^{+}$ were ranging between 4.4-275.7(E+12) cm${}^{-2}$ as expected from cold dense regions. Large line widths of N${}_2$H${}^{+}$ might indicate turbulence and large line widths of HCO${}^{+}$, HNC, and SiO indicate outflow activities. Mean optical depths are 20.32, and 23.19 for optically thick HCO${}^{+}$ and HCN lines, and 0.39 and 0.45 for their optically thin isotopologues H${}^{13}$CO${}^{+}$ and HN${}^{13}$C, respectively. This study reveals the physical and chemical properties of 30 high-mass IR-dark clumps and the interesting targets among them based on their emission line morphology and kinematics.

arXiv comment59 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in A & A

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