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动平衡引起的静止云核的形成和坍缩

Formation and Collapse of Quiescent Cloud Cores Induced by Dynamic Compressions

Gilberto C. Gómez, Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni, Mohsen Shadmehri, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes

摘要:

本文对等温分子云核的形成、演化和引力坍缩进行了数值模拟。在半径r = 1 pc的恒定亚金斯密度分布中建立压缩波。当波穿过模拟网格时,形成激波约束的球壳。这个壳的内部激波到达中心并从中心反弹,留下一个最初密度分布几乎均匀的中心核,由激波边界壳中的材料组成的包层包围,具有幂律密度分布,即使在非塌缩情况下,在后期也接近对数斜率-2。由此产生的密度结构类似于半径< 0.1 pc的静止核心,具有类似于Bonnor-Ebert(BE)的轮廓,尽管它具有显着的动力学差异:它最初是非自引力的,并受到下落材料的冲压压力的限制,因此,质量和尺寸不断增长。在适当的参数下,核心质量最终达到有效的金斯质量,此时核心开始坍缩。因此,在核心的出现和崩溃的开始之间必然有一个时间延迟,但这并不像人们通常认为的那样是由于内部湍流的消散。这些结果表明,前恒星的核心可能近似的Bonnor-Ebert结构,但可变的质量,可能会或可能不会经历引力坍缩,在定性协议的大观察频率的核心与BE类配置文件。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) We present numerical hydrodynamical simulations of the formation, evolution and gravitational collapse of isothermal molecular cloud cores. A compressive wave is set up in a constant sub-Jeans density distribution of radius r = 1 pc. As the wave travels through the simulation grid, a shock-bounded spherical shell is formed. The inner shock of this shell reaches and bounces off the center, leaving behind a central core with an initially almost uniform density distribution, surrounded by an envelope consisting of the material in the shock-bounded shell, with a power-law density profile that at late times approaches a logarithmic slope of -2 even in non-collapsing cases. The resulting density structure resembles a quiescent core of radius < 0.1 pc, with a Bonnor-Ebert-like (BE-like) profile, although it has significant dynamical differences: it is initially non-self-gravitating and confined by the ram pressure of the infalling material, and consequently, growing continuously in mass and size. With the appropriate parameters, the core mass eventually reaches an effective Jeans mass, at which time the core begins to collapse. Thus, there is necessarily a time delay between the appearance of the core and the onset of its collapse, but this is not due to the dissipation of its internal turbulence as it is often believed. These results suggest that pre-stellar cores may approximate Bonnor-Ebert structures which are however of variable mass and may or may not experience gravitational collapse, in qualitative agreement with the large observed frequency of cores with BE-like profiles.

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