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The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Investigating Thermal Feedback of Massive Protostars in Hot Molecular Cores

  • Authors: Dezhao Meng, Tie Liu, Jarken Esimbek, Yisheng Qiu, Jixing Ge, Neal J. Evans, Aina Palau, Guido Garay, Paul F. Goldsmith, Fengwei Xu, Sami Dib, Jeong-Eun Lee, Amelia M. Stutz, Xindi Tang, Xiaofeng Mai, Yan-Kun Zhang, Wenyu Jiao, Jia-Hang Zou, Leonardo Bronfman, Swagat R. Das, Prasanta Gorai, Jian-Wen Zhou, Pablo García, L. Viktor Tóth, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Patricio Sanhueza, Chang Won Lee, Kee-Tae Kim, Jianjun Zhou, Gang Wu, Dalei Li, Yuxin He, Dongting Yang, James O. Chibueze, Xunchuan Liu, Lei Zhu

Dezhao Meng et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 .

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Caption: Figure 2. Field images

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Example images for field I13134-6242 showing the spatial distribution of different parameters. The corresponding physical quantities are labeled in the upper left corner of each panel. Upper panels: rotational temperature map (left panel) and CH3CN column density map (right panel) produced by simultaneously fitting the multitransitions of CH3CN (12–11) pixel by pixel using spectuner. Lower left panel: H2 column density map derived from CH3CN rotational temperature map and 1.3 mm continuum map. The cyan ellipses outline the hot core structures identified by astrodendro. The synthesized beam is shown in the lower left corner, and the scale bar is indicated in the lower right corner. Lower right panel: CH3CN abundance map. The gray contours for the four panels represent the 1.3 mm continuum. The contour levels were plotted from 3σcont (1.5 mJy beam−1) to 0.95 times the peak value, with five logarithmically spaced contours between these values.

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