摘要
We map the dark molecular cloud core of L134 in the C^(18)O (J = 1 - 0)emission line using the PMO 13.7m telescope, and present a contour map of integrated intensity ofC^(18)O (J = 1 - 0) emission. The C^(18)O cloud is inside the distribution of extinction A_B, thevisual extinction of blue light, as well as inside the ^(13)CO cloud in the L134 region. Thedepletion factors in this C^(18)O cloud are generally greater than unity, which means there is gasdepletion onto dust. Since only a minimum A_B - 9.7 mag is available, and our observations measureboth undepleted and depleted regions along the line of sight, the depletion factors could verylikely be larger in the central core than the calculated value. So we conclude that depletion doesoccur in the bulk of the C^(18)O cloud through a comparison between the C^(18)O and blue extinctionmaps in the L134 region. There is no direct evidence as yet for star formation in L134, and so coreson the verge of collapse will not be visible in CO and other gas molecules.
We map the dark molecular cloud core of L134 in the C^(18)O (J = 1 - 0)emission line using the PMO 13.7m telescope, and present a contour map of integrated intensity ofC^(18)O (J = 1 - 0) emission. The C^(18)O cloud is inside the distribution of extinction A_B, thevisual extinction of blue light, as well as inside the ^(13)CO cloud in the L134 region. Thedepletion factors in this C^(18)O cloud are generally greater than unity, which means there is gasdepletion onto dust. Since only a minimum A_B - 9.7 mag is available, and our observations measureboth undepleted and depleted regions along the line of sight, the depletion factors could verylikely be larger in the central core than the calculated value. So we conclude that depletion doesoccur in the bulk of the C^(18)O cloud through a comparison between the C^(18)O and blue extinctionmaps in the L134 region. There is no direct evidence as yet for star formation in L134, and so coreson the verge of collapse will not be visible in CO and other gas molecules.
基金
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10273002).
