Eden, DJ, Moore, TJT, Urquhart, JS, Elia, D, Plume, R, Koenig, C, Baldeschi, A, Schisano, E, Rigby, AJ, Morgan, LK and Thompson, MA (2018) Extreme star formation in the Milky Way: Luminosity distributions of young stellar objects in W49A and W51. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477 (3). pp. 3369-3382. ISSN 1365-2966

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Abstract

We have compared the star-formation properties of the W49A and W51 regions by using far-infrared data from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey (Hi-GAL) and 850- μm observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) to obtain luminosities and masses, respectively, of associated compact sources. The former are infrared luminosities from the catalogue of Elia et al. (2017), while the latter are from the JCMT Plane survey source catalogue as well as measurements from new data. The clump-mass distributions of the two regions are found to be consistent with each other, as are the clump-formation efficiency and star-formation efficiency analogues. However, the frequency distributions of the luminosities of the young stellar objects are significantly different. While the luminosity distribution in W51 is consistent with Galaxy-wide samples, that of W49A is top-heavy. The differences are not dramatic, and are concentrated in the central regions of W49A. However, they suggest that physical conditions there, which are comparable in part to those in extragalactic starbursts, are significantly affecting the star-formation properties or evolution of the dense clumps in the region.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2018 12:05
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2021 23:35
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/mnras/sty606
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/8193

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