CO observations of the molecular gas in the Galactic H ii region Sh2-48: Evidence for cloud–cloud collision as a trigger of high-mass star formation

Sh2-48 is a Galactic H ii region, 3.8 kpc distant, with an O9.5-type star identified at its center. As a part of the FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey using the Nobeyama 45 m telescope (FUGIN) project, we obtained a CO J = 1–0 data set for a large area of Sh2-48 at a spatial resolution of 21″ (∼0.4 pc), and used it to find a molecular cloud with a total molecular mass of ∼3.8 × 104 M⊙ ...