A Cold and Diffuse Giant Molecular Filament in the Region of $l=41^{\circ }$, $b=-1^{\circ }$

Abstract

Data of ${}^{12}$CO/${}^{13}$CO/C${}^{18}$O $J=1\to 0$ emission toward the Galactic plane region of $l=35^{\circ }$ to $45^{\circ }$ and $b=-5^{\circ }$ to $+5^{\circ }$ are available with the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project. Using the data, we found a giant molecular filament (GMF) around $l\approx 38\sim 42^{\circ }$, $b\approx -3.5\sim 0^{\circ }$, $V_{LSR}\approx 27\sim 40$ km~s${}^{-1}$, named the GMF MWISP G041-01. At a distance of 1.7 kpc, the GMF is about 160 pc long. With a median excitation temperature about 7.5 K and a median column density about $10^{21}$ cm${}^{-2}$, this GMF is very cold and very diffuse compared to known GMFs. Using the morphology in the data cube, the GMF is divided into four components among which three show filamentary structure. Masses of the components are $10^3\sim 10^4{M}_{\odot }$, with a total mass for the whole filament being about $7\times 10^4{M}_{\odot }$ from the LTE method. ${}^{13}$CO cores inside each component are searched. Virial parameters are about 2.5 for these cores and have a power-law index of -0.34 against the mass. The mass fraction of dense cores traced by ${}^{13}$CO to the diffuse clouds traced by ${}^{12}$CO are about 7% for all components of the GMF. We found signatures of possible large scale filament-filament collision in the GMF.

17 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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