FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope (FUGIN). VI. Dense gas and mini-starbursts in the W43 giant molecular cloud complex

Abstract

We performed new large-scale ${}^{12}$CO, ${}^{13}$CO, and C${}^{18}$O $J=$1--0 observations of the W43 giant molecular cloud complex in the tangential direction of the Scutum arm ($l\sim 30^{\circ }$) as a part of the FUGIN project. The low-density gas traced by ${}^{12}$CO is distributed over 150 pc $\times$ 100 pc ($l\times b$), and has a large velocity dispersion (20-30 km s${}^{-1}$). However, the dense gas traced by C${}^{18}$O is localized in the W43 Main, G30.5, and W43 South (G29.96-0.02) high-mass star-forming regions in the W43 GMC complex, which have clumpy structures. We found at least two clouds with a velocity difference of $\sim$ 10-20 km s${}^{-1}$, both of which are likely to be physically associated with these high-mass star-forming regions based on the results of high ${}^{13}$CO $J=$ 3-2 to $J=$ 1-0 intensity ratio and morphological correspondence with the infrared dust emission. The velocity separation of these clouds in W43 Main, G30.5, and W43 South is too large for each cloud to be gravitationally bound. We also revealed that the dense gas in the W43 GMC has a high local column density, while "the current SFE" of entire the GMC is low ($\sim 4\%$) compared with the W51 and M17 GMC. We argue that the supersonic cloud-cloud collision hypothesis can explain the origin of the local mini-starbursts and dense gas formation in the W43 GMC complex.

arXiv comment51 pages, 34 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in PASJ

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