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The ionized core in the Sgr B2 Main star-forming region was imaged using the Submillimeter Array archival data observed for the H26$\alpha$ line and continuum emission at 0.86 millimeter with an angular resolution 0.3\arcsec. Eight hyper-compact H26$\alpha$ emission sources were detected with a typical size in the range of 1.6--20$\times10^2$ AU and electron density of 0.3--3$\times10^7$ cm$^{-3}$, corresponding to the emission measure 0.4--8.4$\times10^{10}$ cm$^{-6}$ pc. The H26$\alpha$ line fluxes from the eight hyper-compact HII sources imply that the ionization for each of the sources must be powered by a Lyman continuum flux from an O star or a cluster of B stars. The most luminous H26$\alpha$ source among the eight detected requires an O6 star that appears to be embedded in the ultra-compact HII region F3. In addition, $\sim$ 23 compact continuum emission sources were also detected within the central 5\arcsec$\times$3\arcsec\,($\sim0.2$ pc) region. In the assumption of a power-law distribution for the dust temperature, with the observed brightness temperature of the dust emission we determined the physical properties of the submillimeter emission sources showing that the mol

Author

Zhao, Jun-Hui; Wright, M. C. H.

Published

2011

Language

EN