High-mass star formation in Orion triggered by cloud-cloud collision II, Two merging molecular clouds in NGC2024

Akio Ohama, Daichi Tsutsumi, Hidetoshi Sano +9

We analyzed the NANTEN2 13CO (J=2-1 and 1-0) datasets in NGC 2024. We found that the cloud consists of two velocity components, whereas the cloud shows mostly single-peaked CO prof…