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团簇寿命和初始质量函数

Clump Lifetimes and the Initial Mass Function

Paul C. Clark, Ralf S. Klessen, Ian A. Bonnell

摘要:

最近对低质量恒星形成区域的致密团块/核心的研究表明,这些团块的质量分布与场星的初始质量函数(IMF)非常相似。对这些观测结果的一种可能的解释是,我们正在目睹云分裂成IMF,并且观察到的团块是前恒星核心。在本文中,我们强调了这种解释的一个潜在的困难,即不同质量的团块可能有系统地改变寿命。这个时间尺度问题可以有效地破坏团簇质量函数和恒星质量函数之间的相似性,使得类恒星团簇质量函数(CMF)导致更陡峭的恒星IMF。我们还讨论了一些方法,可以避免这个问题。

英文摘要:

Recent studies of dense clumps/cores in a number of regions of low-mass star formation have shown that the mass distribution of these clumps closely resembles the initial mass function (IMF) of field stars. One possible interpretation of these observations is that we are witnessing the fragmentation of the clouds into the IMF, and the observed clumps are bound pre-stellar cores. In this paper, we highlight a potential difficulty in this interpretation, namely that clumps of varying mass are likely to have systematically varying lifetimes. This timescale problem can effectively destroy the similarity bewteen the clump and stellar mass functions, such that a stellar-like clump mass function (CMF) results in a much steeper stellar IMF. We also discuss some ways in which this problem may be avoided.

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