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What is ATLASGAL-selected massive clumps in the inner Galaxy. X. Observations of atomic carbon at 492 GHz about?

(Abridged) In this paper, we investigate the physical conditions of [CI]-traced gas in high-mass star-forming regions by analyzing APEX [CI] 492 GHz single-pointing observations of the ATLASGAL Top100 sources along with other multi-wavelength data. Our 98 sources are clearly detected in [CI] 492 GHz emission, and the observed integrated intensities and line widths tend to increase toward evolved stages of star formation. In addition to these "main" components that are associated with the Top100 sample, 41 emission and two absorption features are identified by their velocities toward 28 and two lines of sight respectively as "secondary" components. The secondary components have systematically smaller integrated intensities and line widths than the main components. We found that [CI] 492 GHz and 13CO(2-1) are well correlated with the 13CO(2-1)-to-[CI] 492 GHz integrated intensity ratio varying from 0.2 to 5.3. In addition, we derived the H2-to-[CI] conversion factor, X(CI), by dividing 870 micron-based H2 column densities by the observed [CI] 492 GHz integrated intensities and found that X(CI) ranges from 2.3e20 to 1.3e22 with a median of 1.7e21. In contrast to the strong correlation

Author

Lee, Min-Young; Wyrowski, Friedrich; Menten, Karl; Tiwari, Maitraiyee; Guesten, Rolf

Published

2022

Language

EN