J/ApJ/822/59     BGPS. XIV. Molecular cloud clumps GBT obs.     (Svoboda+, 2016)

The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. XIV. Physical properties of massive starless and star-forming clumps. Svoboda B.E., Shirley Y.L., Battersby C., Rosolowsky E.W., Ginsburg A.G., Ellsworth-Bowers T.P., Pestalozzi M.R., Dunham M.K., Evans II N.J., Bally J., Glenn J. <Astrophys. J., 822, 59-59 (2016)> =2016ApJ...822...59S 2016ApJ...822...59S (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Molecular clouds ; Masers ; Millimetric/submm sources ; Radio lines ; Interstellar medium ; Surveys Keywords: ISM: clouds; ISM: molecules; masers; stars: formation; submillimeter: ISM; surveys Abstract: We sort 4683 molecular clouds between 10°<l<65° from the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey based on observational diagnostics of star formation activity: compact 70µm sources, mid-IR color-selected YSOs, H2O and CH3OH masers, and UCHII regions. We also present a combined NH3-derived gas kinetic temperature and H2O maser catalog for 1788 clumps from our own GBT 100m observations and from the literature. We identify a subsample of 2223 (47.5%) starless clump candidates (SCCs), the largest and most robust sample identified from a blind survey to date. Distributions of flux density, flux concentration, solid angle, kinetic temperature, column density, radius, and mass show strong (>1dex) progressions when sorted by star formation indicator. The median SCC is marginally subvirial (α∼0.7) with >75% of clumps with known distance being gravitationally bound (α<2). These samples show a statistically significant increase in the median clump mass of ΔM∼170-370M from the starless candidates to clumps associated with protostars. This trend could be due to (i) mass growth of the clumps at dM/dt∼200-440M/Myr for an average freefall 0.8Myr timescale, (ii) a systematic factor of two increase in dust opacity from starless to protostellar phases, and/or (iii) a variation in the ratio of starless to protostellar clump lifetime that scales as ∼M-0.4. By comparing to the observed number of CH3OH maser containing clumps, we estimate the phase lifetime of massive (M>103M) starless clumps to be 0.37±0.08Myr (M/103M)-1; the majority (M<450M) have phase lifetimes longer than their average freefall time. Description: The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) identified 8294 clumps with 1.1mm flux densities above 100mJy and 8594 clumps cataloged in total (Rosolowsky et al. 2010, J/ApJS/188/123; Aguirre et al. 2011ApJS..192....4A 2011ApJS..192....4A; Ginsburg et al. 2013ApJS..208...14G 2013ApJS..208...14G). We have conducted targeted, spectroscopic observations of the NH3 (1,1), (2,2), and (3,3) inversion transitions and the JK+,K-=61,6-52,3 22GHz H2O maser line with the 100m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) toward 1215 new BGPS sources. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 137 1393 Observed H2O maser properties (updated version for positions in June 2018) table2.dat 410 1303 Observed NH3 properties (updated version for positions in June 2018) table3.dat 143 4683 Observed 1.1mm properties (updated version in June 2018) table5.dat 49 4683 Star formation indicator flags table6.dat 731 4683 Clump physical properties -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/ApJ/815/130 : High-mass molecular clumps from MALT90 (Guzman+, 2015) J/MNRAS/451/3089 : Young clumps embedded in IRDC (Traficante+, 2015) J/A+A/579/A91 : ATLASGAL inner Galaxy massive cold dust clumps (Wienen+, 2015) J/ApJ/805/157 : BGPS. XIII. Mass functions (Ellsworth-Bowers+, 2015) J/ApJS/218/1 : BGPS. XI. SHARC-II 350um observations (Merello+, 2015) J/MNRAS/446/3461 : 6.7-GHz methanol masers-dust associations (Urquhart+, 2015) J/AJ/149/64 : MIPSGAL 24µm point source catalog (Gutermuth+, 2015) J/ApJ/799/29 : BGPS. XII. DR2 distance catalog (Ellsworth-Bowers+, 2015) J/MNRAS/443/1555 : ATLASGAL massive star forming clumps (Urquhart+, 2014) J/MNRAS/442/2240 : Accurate water maser positions from HOPS (Walsh+, 2014) J/A+A/565/A75 : Dust condensations in Galactic plane (Csengeri+, 2014) J/ApJ/783/130 : Parallaxes of high mass star forming regions (Reid+, 2014) J/A+A/560/A76 : Catalog of stellar clusters in inner Galaxy (Morales+, 2013) J/ApJS/209/2 : The BGPS. X. Dense molecular gas (Shirley+, 2013) J/ApJ/777/157 : 90GHz obs. of high-mass star-forming regions (Hoq+, 2013) J/A+A/559/A79 : IRDC APEX/SABOCA observations (Ragan+, 2013) J/MNRAS/435/400 : ATLASGAL. Properties of compact HII regions (Urquhart+, 2013) J/ApJS/208/11 : The Red MSX Source Survey: massive protostars (Lumsden+, 2013) J/ApJ/770/39 : BGPS. VIII. MIR kinematic distances (Ellsworth-Bowers+, 2013) J/MNRAS/431/1752 : ATLASGAL 6.7GHz methanol masers (Urquhart+, 2013) J/ApJS/206/9 : New EGOs from Spitzer GLIMPSE II survey. I. (Chen+, 2013) J/ApJS/205/1 : CORNISH project. II. Source catalog (Purcell+, 2013) J/A+A/549/A45 : ATLASGAL Compact Source Catalog: 330<l<21 (Contreras+, 2013) J/A+A/544/A146 : ATLASGAL cold high-mass clumps with NH3 (Wienen+, 2012) J/A+A/540/A113 : Starless clumps in ATLASGAL (Tackenberg+, 2012) J/ApJ/753/50 : 6.7GHz methanol masers. I. NH3 lines (Pandian+, 2012) J/MNRAS/418/1689 : Red MSX water maser and ammonia emissions (Urquhart+, 2011) J/ApJ/741/110 : The BGPS. VII. Massive star-forming regions (Dunham+, 2011) J/MNRAS/416/1764 : H2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey (HOPS) (Walsh+, 2011) J/ApJS/195/14 : The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. V. (Schlingman+, 2011) J/ApJ/731/90 : Mid-IR content of BGPS sources (Dunham+, 2011) J/ApJ/723/1019 : Galactic SFR and gas surface densities (Heiderman+, 2010) J/ApJ/723/492 : Physical prop. of GRS molecular clouds (Roman-Duval+, 2010) J/ApJS/188/123 : The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. II. (Rosolowsky+, 2010) J/A+A/505/405 : A catalogue of Spitzer dark clouds (Peretto+, 2009) J/ApJ/699/1153 : Kinematic dist. to GRS molecular clouds (Roman-Duval+, 2009) J/ApJ/699/1092 : Giant molecular clouds (SRBY) (Heyer+, 2009) J/AJ/136/2413 : Galactic midplane Spitzer red sources (Robitaille+, 2008) J/AJ/136/2391 : GLIMPSE Extended Green Objects catalog (Cyganowski+, 2008) J/ApJ/566/945 : Massive star forming regions at 1.2mm (Beuther+, 2002) J/A+A/368/845 : Arcetri Catalog of H2O maser sources. (Valdettaro+, 2001) J/A+A/291/943 : Protostellar cores (Ossenkopf+, 1994) J/ApJS/63/821 : Inner Galaxy Molecular clouds & cloud cores (Scoville+, 1987) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- Seq [2351/7033] BGPS v.2.1.0 catalog index number, v210cnum 6- 7 I2 h RAh GBT Hour of Right Ascension (J2000) 9- 10 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000) 12- 15 F4.1 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000) 17- 17 A1 --- DE- GBT Sign of the Declination (J2000) 18- 19 I2 deg DEd GBT Degree of Declination (J2000) 21- 22 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000) 24- 27 F4.1 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000) 29- 44 F16.12 arcsec Off [0/196] Coordinate offset of the GBT pointing from the clump peak flux position (θoffset) 46- 56 F11.7 km/s vLSR [-68/151]? Local Standard of Rest velocity for the peak H2O component 58- 68 F11.7 km/s Vsp [0.1/193]? Velocity spread from the lowest to highest velocity H2O components 70- 85 F16.10 K Tpk [0.2/14326]? H2O brightness temperature, Tmb (1) 87- 99 F13.11 K e_Tpk [0.03/0.5] Uncertainty in Tpk (2) 101-118 F18.12 K.km/s W [-0.02/55787]? H2O integrated intensity 120-132 F13.11 K.km/s e_W [0.01/1.4]? Uncertainty in W 134-137 F4.1 --- Nl [1/43]? Number of unblended H2O components -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Brightness temperature units are on the main-beam scale. The conversion to Jy is 0.463[Jy/K] Note (2): Upper-limits can be calculated for non-detections in Tpk as 5*e_Tpk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- Seq [2356/7033] BGPS v.2.1.0 catalog index number, v210cnum 6- 7 I2 h RAh GBT Hour of Right Ascension (J2000) 9- 10 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000) 12- 15 F4.1 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000) 17- 17 A1 --- DE- GBT Sign of the Declination (J2000) 18- 19 I2 deg DEd GBT Degree of Declination (J2000) 21- 22 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000) 24- 27 F4.1 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000) 29- 45 F17.13 arcsec Off [0.01/196] Pointing offset from clump peak flux density position (θoffset) 47- 64 F18.13 km/s vLSR [-250/182] Local Standard of Rest velocity 66- 81 F16.14 km/s e_vLSR [0/1.5] Uncertainty in vLRS 83- 97 F15.12 km/s sigmav [0.1/16.5] Gaussian line width σV 99-114 F16.14 km/s e_sigmav [0.002/2] Uncertainty in sigmav 116-132 F17.12 K pk11 [0.1/1020] NH3(1,1) brightness temperature (1) 134-148 F15.13 K e_pk11 [0.03/0.5] Uncertainty in pk11 150-167 F18.14 K.km/s w11 [-1.5/187] NH3(1,1) integrated intensity 169-183 F15.13 K.km/s e_w11 [0.06/1.3] Uncertainty in w11 185-201 F17.12 K pk22 [0.1/1020] NH3(2,2) brightness temperature (1) 203-217 F15.13 K e_pk22 [0.03/2.1] Uncertainty in pk22 219-237 F19.15 K.km/s w22 [-3.3/193] NH3(2,2) integrated intensity 239-253 F15.13 K.km/s e_w22 [0.05/4.6] Uncertainty in w22 255-270 F16.13 K pk33 [-0.1/9.5] NH3(3,3) brightness temperature (1) 272-286 F15.13 K e_pk33 [0/0.4] Uncertainty in pk33 288-304 F17.14 K.km/s w33 [-2.5/47.8] NH3(3,3) integrated intensity 306-320 F15.13 K.km/s e_w33 [0/1.4] Uncertainty in w33 322-342 F21.14 --- tau11 [0.003/347948] NH3(1,1) optical depth 344-357 F14.11 K Tkin [2.7/99] Gas kinetic temperature 359-376 F18.14 K e_Tkin [0.002/136] Uncertainty in Tkin 378-391 F14.11 K Tex [2.7/54.2] Measured excitation temperature 393-410 F18.13 K e_Tex [-0/2149.1] Uncertainty in Tex -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Brightness temperature units are on the main-beam scale. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- Seq [2351/7033] BGPS v.2.1.0 catalog index number, v210cnum 6- 12 A7 --- --- [BGPSv2_] 13- 27 A15 --- BGPS BGPS source identifier (GLLL.lll+BB.bbb) in the V2.1 catalog 29- 30 I2 h RAh Hour of Right Ascension (J2000) 32- 33 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000) 35- 38 F4.1 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000) 40- 40 A1 --- DE- Sign of the Declination (J2000) 41- 42 I2 deg DEd Degree of Declination (J2000) 44- 45 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000) 47- 50 F4.1 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000) 52- 57 F6.4 arcmin2 OmFWHM [0.08/9]?=0 FWHM solid angle, not beam subtracted (ΩFWHM) (1) 59- 65 F7.4 arcmin2 OmTot [0.3/41.4] Total solid angle (ΩTotal), not beam subtracted (1) 67- 80 F14.11 arcsec RadFWHM [2.8/100]? FWHM equivalent angular radius, beam subtracted θeqFWHM 82- 95 F14.10 arcsec Rad [11/217.2] Total equivalent angular radius, beam subtracted (θeqTotal) 97-112 F16.13 Jy F1.1FWHM [0.03/51]? FWHM 1.1 mm flux density 114-128 F15.13 Jy e_F1.1FWHM [0.02/3.1]? Uncertainty in F1.1FWHM 130-136 F7.3 Jy F1.1 [0.04/201] Total 1.1 mm flux density 138-143 F6.3 Jy e_F1.1 [0.03/12.2] Uncertainty in F1.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): The total solid angle is defined by the Bolocat v2.0 seeded watershed algorithm and the FWHM solid angle is defined by the contour at half-maximum flux density. See section 5.2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- Seq [2351/7033] BGPS v.2.1.0 catalog index number, v210cnum 6- 6 I1 --- Fsf [0/1] Star formation indicator flag 8- 11 F4.2 --- Pproto [0/1] Star formation indicator probability 13- 13 I1 --- Fhg70 [0/5]? Hi-GAL 70 um visual inspection flag (1) 15- 16 I2 --- Nmipsc [0/21] Number of MIPSGAL Catalog sources, Gutermuth & Heyer 2015, J/AJ/149/64 18- 19 I2 --- Nmipsa [0/26] Number of MIPSGAL Archive sources, Gutermuth & Heyer 2015, J/AJ/149/64 21- 21 I1 --- Fir [0/2] MIPS IR flag (mid-IR group, 2 for uniquely Robitaille+, 2008, J/AJ/136/2413) AGB) 23- 23 I1 --- NR [0/9] Number of Red-Spitzer YSOs, Robitaille et al. 2008, J/AJ/136/2413 25- 25 I1 --- NL [0/3] Number of Red-MSX YSOs, Lumsden et al. 2013, J/ApJS/208/11 27- 27 I1 --- NC [0/3] Number of EGOs, Cyganowski+ 2008, J/AJ/136/2391, Chen+ 2013, J/ApJS/206/9 29- 29 I1 --- h2o [0/1] H2O maser flag 31- 31 I1 --- Ngbt [0/2] Number of GBT pointings with detections 33- 33 I1 --- Narc [0/1] Number of Arcetri Observatory detections, Valdettaro et al. 2001, J/A+A/368/845 35- 36 I2 --- Nhops [0/22] Number of HOPS detections, Walsh et al. 2011, J/MNRAS/416/1764 38- 38 I1 --- ch3oh [0/1] CH3OH maser flag 40- 40 I1 --- Nmmb [0/4] Number of MMB detections, Breen et al. 2015MNRAS.450.4109B 2015MNRAS.450.4109B 42- 42 I1 --- Npesta [0/2] Number of literature detections, Pestalozzi et al. 2005, J/A+A/432/737 44- 44 I1 --- Npandi [0/4] Number of Arecibo detections, Pandian et al. 2011ApJ...730...55P 2011ApJ...730...55P 46- 46 I1 --- uchii [0/1] Ultra-compact HII region flag 48- 49 I2 --- Ncorn [0/13] Number of CORNISH sources, Purcell et al. 2013, J/ApJS/205/1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Flag values on visual inspection of Hi-GAL 70um images as follows: 0 = Quiescent background with no source identified; 1 = High confidence compact source on the scale of the Herschel 10.2" PSF; 2 = More diffuse than the PSF but identifiable as compact sources due to strong, localized emission above the background level; 3 = Bright or complex background with no source identified; 4 = Faint or low confidence source; 5 = Image saturated. See section 3.2.4 for further explanations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- Seq [2351/7033] BGPS v.2.1.0 catalog index number, v210cnum 6- 17 E12.6 pc dist-lo [247/15797]? Heliocentric distance, 15.9 percentile value 19- 30 E12.6 pc dist-md [622/16629]? Heliocentric distance, 50.0 percentile value 32- 43 E12.6 pc dist-hi [1082/17788]? Heliocentric distance, 84.1 percentile value 45- 56 E12.6 pc dist-ml [407/16886]? Heliocentric distance, Maximum Likelihood value 58- 69 E12.6 pc dist-ma [49/2241]? Heliocentric distance, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 71- 82 E12.6 pc radTot-lo [0.03/8]? Equivalent physical radius, Total, 15.9 percentile value 84- 95 E12.6 pc radTot-md [0.06/9]? Equivalent physical radius, Total, 50.0 percentile value 97-108 E12.6 pc radTot-hi [0.1/8.7]? Equivalent physical radius, Total, 84.1 percentile value 110-121 E12.6 pc radTot-ml [0.06/8.4]? Equivalent physical radius, Total, Maximum Likelihood value 123-134 E12.6 pc radTot-ma [0.006/1]? Equivalent physical radius, Total, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 136-147 E12.6 pc radFWHM-lo [0.02/3.2]? Equivalent physical radius, FWHM, 15.9 percentile value 149-160 E12.6 pc radFWHM-md [0.03/3.3]? Equivalent physical radius, FWHM, 50.0 percentile value 162-173 E12.6 pc radFWHM-hi [0.04/4.4]? Equivalent physical radius, FWHM, 84.1 percentile value 175-186 E12.6 pc radFWHM-ml [0.02/3.3]? Equivalent physical radius, FWHM, Maximum Likelihood value 188-199 E12.6 pc radFWHM-ma [0.002/0.4]? Equivalent physical radius, FWHM, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 201-213 E13.6 g/cm2 colTot-lo [-0.004/0.6] Molecular hydrogen column density, Total, 15.9 percentile value 215-226 E12.6 g/cm2 colTot-md [0.0005/0.9] Molecular hydrogen column density, Total, 50.0 percentile value 228-239 E12.6 g/cm2 colTot-hi [0.003/1.1] Molecular hydrogen column density, Total, 84.1 percentile value 241-253 E13.6 g/cm2 colTot-ml [-0.0008/0.7] Molecular hydrogen column density, Total, Maximum Likelihood value 255-266 E12.6 g/cm2 colTot-ma [0.0004/0.2] Molecular hydrogen column density, Total, Median absolute deviation 268-280 E13.6 g/cm2 colFWHM-lo [-0.004/1.5]? Molecular hydrogen column density, FWHM, 15.9 percentile value 282-293 E12.6 g/cm2 colFWHM-md [0.0008/1.9]? Molecular hydrogen column density, FWHM, 50.0 percentile value 295-306 E12.6 g/cm2 colFWHM-hi [0.005/2.9]? Molecular hydrogen column density, FWHM, 84.1 percentile value 308-320 E13.6 g/cm2 colFWHM-ml [-0.002/1.6]? Molecular hydrogen column density, FWHM, Maximum Likelihood value 322-333 E12.6 g/cm2 colFWHM-ma [0.0007/0.5]? Molecular hydrogen column density, FWHM, Median absolute deviation 335-347 E13.6 g/cm2 colPk-lo [-0.05/1.9] Molecular hydrogen column density, Correct Peak, 15.9 percentile value 349-360 E12.6 g/cm2 colPk-md [0.0003/2.6] Molecular hydrogen column density, Correct Peak, 50.0 percentile value 362-373 E12.6 g/cm2 colPk-hi [0.006/3.8] Molecular hydrogen column density, Correct Peak, 84.1 percentile value 375-387 E13.6 g/cm2 colPk-ml [-0.006/2.1] Molecular hydrogen column density, Correct Peak, Maximum Likelihood 389-400 E12.6 g/cm2 colPk-ma [0.002/0.7] Molecular hydrogen column density, Correct Peak, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 402-414 E13.6 Msun massTot-lo [-257/25547]? Molecular hydrogen mass, Total, 15.9 percentile value 416-427 E12.6 Msun massTot-md [1/37299]? Molecular hydrogen mass, Total, 50.0 percentile value 429-440 E12.6 Msun massTot-hi [3.9/58373]? Molecular hydrogen mass, Total, 84.1 percentile value 442-454 E13.6 Msun massTot-ml [-85/27844]? Molecular hydrogen mass, Total, Maximum Likelihood value 456-467 E12.6 Msun massTot-ma [0.8/13876]? Molecular hydrogen mass, Total, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 469-481 E13.6 Msun massFWHM-lo [-197/8874]? Molecular hydrogen mass, FWHM, 15.9 percentile value 483-495 E13.6 Msun massFWHM-md [/13229]? Molecular hydrogen mass, FWHM, 50.0 percentile value 497-508 E12.6 Msun massFWHM-hi [/21436]? Molecular hydrogen mass, FWHM, 84.1 percentile value 510-522 E13.6 Msun massFWHM-ml [-99/10966]? Molecular hydrogen mass, FWHM, Maximum Likelihood value 524-535 E12.6 Msun massFWHM-ma [/6831]? Molecular hydrogen mass, FWHM, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 537-549 E13.6 cm-3 densCen-lo [-104/146180]? Molecular hydrogen central number density, 15.9 percentile value 551-562 E12.6 cm-3 densCen-md [4/167679]? Molecular hydrogen central number density, 50.0 percentile value 564-575 E12.6 cm-3 densCen-hi [133/]? Molecular hydrogen central number density, 84.1 percentile value 577-588 E12.6 cm-3 densCen-ml [9/154069]? Molecular hydrogen central number density, Maximum Likelihood value 590-601 E12.6 cm-3 densCen-ma [30/26624]? Molecular hydrogen central number density, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 603-614 E12.6 yr ffall-lo [22751/]? Free-fall timescale, 15.9 percentile value 616-627 E12.6 yr ffall-md [75064/]? Free-fall timescale, 50.0 percentile value 629-640 E12.6 yr ffall-hi [80131/]? Free-fall timescale, 84.1 percentile value 642-653 E12.6 yr ffall-ml [11223/]? Free-fall timescale, Maximum Likelihood value 655-666 E12.6 yr ffall-ma [2924/]? Free-fall timescale, Median absolute deviation (MAD) 668-679 E12.6 --- vir-lo [0.007/304]? Virial parameter, 15.9 percentile value (1) 681-692 E12.6 --- vir-md [0.02/598]? Virial parameter, 50.0 percentile value (1) 694-705 E12.6 --- vir-hi [0.05/888]? Virial parameter, 84.1 percentile value (1) 707-718 E12.6 --- vir-ml [0.003/161]? Virial parameter, Maximum Likelihood value (1) 720-731 E12.6 --- vir-ma [0.008/211]? Virial parameter, Median absolute deviation (MAD) (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): The virial parameter, α=Mvir/M, expresses the relative importance of gravitational and kinetic energy and can be used to assess whether clumps are gravitationally bound and/or stable to collapse. See section 5.4.3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal 01-Sep-2016: Insert into VizieR 08-Jun-2018: Sign of declinations corrected in tables 1, 2 and 3 for some sources at 0 degree. References: Aguirre et al. Paper I. 2011ApJS..192....4A 2011ApJS..192....4A Rosolowsky et al. Paper II. 2010ApJS..188..123R 2010ApJS..188..123R Cat. J/ApJS/188/123 Dunham et al. Paper III. 2010ApJ...717.1157D 2010ApJ...717.1157D Bally et al. Paper IV. 2010ApJ...721..137B 2010ApJ...721..137B Cat. J/ApJ/721/137 Schlingman et al. Paper V. 2011ApJS..195...14S 2011ApJS..195...14S Cat. J/ApJS/195/14 Dunham et al. Paper VI. 2011ApJ...731...90D 2011ApJ...731...90D Cat. J/ApJ/731/90 Dunham et al. Paper VII. 2011ApJ...741..110D 2011ApJ...741..110D Cat. J/ApJ/741/110 Ellsworth-Bowers et al. Paper VIII. 2013ApJ...770...39E 2013ApJ...770...39E Ginsburg et al. Paper IX. 2013ApJS..208...14G 2013ApJS..208...14G Shirley et al. Paper X. 2013ApJS..209....2S 2013ApJS..209....2S Cat. J/ApJS/209/2 Merello et al. Paper XI. 2015ApJS..218....1M 2015ApJS..218....1M Cat. J/ApJS/218/1 Ellsworth-Bowers et al. Paper XII. 2015ApJ...799...29E 2015ApJ...799...29E Cat. J/ApJ/799/29 Ellsworth-Bowers et al. Paper XIII. 2015ApJ...805..157E 2015ApJ...805..157E Cat. J/ApJ/805/157 Svoboda et al. 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