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Author(s): Leonardo Trujillo
Presentation: oral
One of the theories on the formation of stars suggests that the rims of galactic gas bubbles should contain a high density of young stellar objects (YSO). We have studied the rims of certain mid-infrared (MIR) bubbles to improve our understanding of star formation. To get a better idea of the chemical composition around the regions where star formation was detected, we calculated the column densities of the observed gases CS, HC3N, and CH3OH for each pointing. We used the Gaussian fits of spectrum lines obtained from Green Bank Telescope (GBT) observations and other parameters obtained from astronomical catalogs, like the JPL Spectral Line Catalog, to compute these column densities. With these results, we hope to identify trends relative to infrared features and how bubble interactions change abundances that could serve as fingerprints for star formation.
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