High-resolution APEX/LAsMA ${}^{12}$CO and ${}^{13}$CO (3-2) observation of the G333 giant molecular cloud complex : II. Survival and gravitational collapse of dense gas structures under feedback

Abstract

We investigate the physical properties of gas structures under feedback in the G333 complex using data of the 13CO (3-2) line in the LAsMA observation. We used the Dendrogram algorithm to identify molecular gas structures based on the integrated intensity map of the 13CO (3-2) emission, and extracted the average spectra of all structures to investigate their velocity components and gas kinematics. We derive the column density ratios between different transitions of the 13CO emission pixel-by-pixel, and find the peak values N(2-1)/N(1-0) ~ 0.5, N(3-2)/N(1-0) ~ 0.3, N(3-2)/N(2-1) ~ 0.5. These ratios can also be roughly predicted by RADEX for an average H${}_2$ volume density of ~ 4.2 * 10${}^3$ cm${}^{-3}$. A classical virial analysis does not reflect the true physical state of the identified structures, and we find that external pressure from the ambient cloud plays an important role in confining the observed gas structures. For high column density structures, velocity dispersion and density show a clear correlation, while for low column density structures they do not, indicating the contribution of gravitational collapse to the velocity dispersion. For both leaf and branch structures, $\sigma -N\ast R$ always has a stronger correlation compared to $\sigma -N$ and $\sigma -R$. The scaling relations are stronger, and have steeper slopes when considering only self-gravitating structures, which are the structures most closely associated with the Heyer-relation. Although the feedback disrupting the molecular clouds will break up the original cloud complex, the substructures of the original complex can be reorganized into new gravitationally governed configurations around new gravitational centers. This process is accompanied by structural destruction and generation, and changes in gravitational centers, but gravitational collapse is always ongoing.

18 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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