A Study of Ultracompact H II Regions with Extended Emission: their Importance, Origin, and Evolution
Jyotirmoy Dey,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala 695547, India. Corresponding author: dey.jyotirmoy04@gmail.com
Jagadheep D. Pandian,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala 695547, India
Dharam Lal,
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics–Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Post Box 3, Ganeshkhind P.O., Pune 411007, India
Michael Rugel,
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR), Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Andreas Brunthaler,
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR), Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Karl Menten,
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR), Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Friedrich Wyrowski,
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR), Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Nirupam Roy,
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
Sergio Dzib,
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR), Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Sac-Nicté X. Medina,
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR), Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany and German Aerospace Center, Scientific Information, 51147 Cologne, Germany
Sarwar Khan,
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR), Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Abstract
Studies of ultracompact H II regions have shown that the Lyman-continuum photon (hereafter, Ly-photon) rates inferred from the radio emission and values based on the infrared emission are inconsistent with a rate estimated from radio being up to 90% lower. One possible solution to this inconsistency is the presence of extended radio emission associated with the ultracompact core, which is undetected by most interferometric arrays, due to the lack of very short baselines. Since such extended emission would require a significantly higher rate of Ly-photons to keep its ionization state compared to the compact core, its existence would also resolve the “age problem of the ultracompact H II regions: the number of ultracompact H II regions observed in the Galaxy is much larger than what is expected based on their dynamical age (sound crossing time)”, as there is no need to confine the ionized gas within the ultracompact core. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a study of eight ultracompact H II regions with extended emission using radio data from the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (1.25–1.45 GHz) and the GLOSTAR survey (4–8 GHz), and infrared data from the UKIDSS, 2MASS, MIPSGAL, and Hi-GAL surveys. From our study, we found that the Ly-photon rate inferred from the radio emission is consistent with that inferred from the total infrared luminosity to within 20–30% when we include the extended emission. Furthermore, we identified the candidate ionizing stars and observed that, in some cases, multiple stars were responsible for ionizing the neutral gas in an ultracompact H II region. Here, we present the key results for one region (G19.68–0.13) out of the entire list of our targets.
Keywords : ultracompact H II regions, Lyman-continuum photon, dust emission, radio observation
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Jyotirmoy Dey, Jagadheep D. Pandian, Dharam Lal, Michael Rugel, Andreas Brunthaler, Karl Menten, Friedrich Wyrowski, Nirupam Roy, Sergio Dzib, Sac-Nicté X. Medina & Sarwar Khan, «A Study of Ultracompact H II Regions with Extended Emission: their Importance, Origin, and Evolution», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 93 - Année 2024, No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation, 572-581 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=11800.
