SF-03-0033

ALMA CO STUDIES OF A GMC IN M33: EVIDENCE FOR HIGH-MASS CLUSTER FORMATION TRIGGERED BY CLOUD-CLOUD COLLISIONS

Hidetoshi Sano, Kisetsu Tsuge, Kazuki Tokuda, Kazuyuki Muraoka, Kengo Tachihara, Yumiko Yamane, Mikito Kohno, Shinji Fujita, Rei Enokiya, Gavin Rowell, Nigel Maxted, Miroslav D. Filipovic, Jonathan Knies, Manami Sasaki, Toshikazu Onishi, Paul P. Plucinsky, Yasuo Fukui

It is a long-standing question how high-mass stars are formed in galaxies. Recently, cloud-cloud collisions have received much attention as a mechanism for the formation of high-mass stars and clusters. We report the first evidence of high-mass cluster formation triggered by collisions of molecular clouds in M33. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), we spatially resolved filamentary structures of the giant molecular cloud (GMC) 37 in M33 with <sup>12</sup>CO(<i>J</i> = 2-1), <sup>13</sup>CO(<i>J</i> = 2-1), and C<sup>18</sup>O(<i>J</i> = 2-1) line emission at a spatial resolution of ~2 pc. We find two individual clouds with a systematic velocity difference of ~6 km s<sup>-1</sup>. Three continuum sources consisting of up to ~10 high-mass stars are embedded within the densest parts of the molecular clouds which are bright in C<sup>18</sup>O(<i>J</i> = 2-1) line emission. The two molecular clouds show a complementary morphology with a spatial displacement of ~3.5 pc, and show a V-shaped structure in the position-velocity diagram. We also note that the systemic velocity difference between the two clouds cannot be explained by stellar feedback from the high-mass stars. These observational features traced by CO and its isotopes are consistent with those in high-mass star-forming regions created by cloud-cloud collisions in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. In this poster, we will discuss the formation mechanism of the high-mass star cluster in the GMC 37 in M33.