宇宙收缩-关于天体系统向昴星团方向收缩的观测与研究 pleiades_molspec.ppt

Molecular Interstellar Absorption toward the Pleiades Star Cluster Adam Ritchey Department of Physics Astronomy University of Toledo Outline of Talk Introduction to the Pleiades Significance to interstellar studies Motivation for the present investigation Observing Program Data Reduction and Fitting Procedure Results and Analysis Determination of column densities Implications of average velocities and b-values Velocity structure of molecular gas Physical conditions from models of diffuse cloud chemistry Acknowledgements Introduction to the Pleiades Laboratory for the study of interstellar processes due to the interaction between the stellar radiation field of the cluster and surrounding diffuse interstellar clouds. Spatial association of stars and ambient interstellar medium (ISM) is ephemeral – result of a chance encounter between the cluster and one or more approaching clouds (White 2003). Introduction to the Pleiades Anomalous characteristics: Unusually strong CH+ absorption (Adams 1949). High degree of H2 rotational excitation (Spitzer et al. 1974). Previous Investigations: White (1984) examined CN, Ca II, Ca I, CH+, and CH toward 15 Pleiades members. (Dv ~ 3–8 km s-1) Crane et al. (1995) surveyed CH+ and CH at ultra-high resolution. (Dv ~ 0.6 km s-1) White et al. (2001) analyzed the Na I D lines of 36 stars in the Pleiades. (Dv ~ 1.1–1.5 km s-1) Primary motivation: to obtain equally high quality data for the other important optical tracers of the ISM toward a large number of targets in the Pleiades so that a complete picture of the interaction between interstellar gas clouds and the stars of the cluster may be constructed. Observing Program 20 stars from the list in White et al. (2001) with secure membership in the cluster. Observed using the high-resolution mode (R ~ 175,000; Dv ~ 1.7 km s-1) of the 2dcoude spectrograph on the Smith 2.7 m telescope at McDonald Observatory. Instrumental setup allowed for the detection of absorption features from