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大质量恒星形成区:湍流支持还是全球崩溃?

Massive Star Forming Regions: Turbulent Support or Global Collapse?

Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Ralf S. Klessen, A. Katharina Jappsen

摘要:

我们提出了初步的数值证据表明,在高质量的恒星形成区域的物理条件,可以从全球引力下降,速度色散主要是由下降运动,而不是随机湍流。为此,我们研究了在扩散原子ISM中的一个致密的云的形成,演变和随后的崩溃的数值模拟中出现在中央崩溃的区域中的团块和核心。团块的大小为$\sim 1$ pc,质量为几百$M_\odot$,三维速度分散度为$\sim 3$ km s $^{-1}$,与此类结构的典型观测值一致。团块分解成大小为$\sim 0.1$ pc、密度为$\sim 10^5$、质量为2-300 $M_\odot$的大质量核心,这些量的分布峰值与最近对天鹅座X分子云复合体的调查中的大质量核心样本相同。虽然是初步的,这些结果表明,大质量恒星形成的团块可能处于全球引力坍缩状态,而不是在强湍流支持下的平衡状态。

英文摘要:

We present preliminary numerical evidence that the physical conditions in high-mass star forming regions can arise from global gravitational infall, with the velocity dispersions being caused primarily by infall motions rather than random turbulence. To this end, we study the clumps and cores appearing in the region of central collapse in a numerical simulation of the formation, evolution, and subsequent collapse of a dense cloud out of a transonic compression in the diffuse atomic ISM. The clumps have sizes $\sim 1$ pc, masses of several hundred $M_\odot$, and three-dimensional velocity dispersions $\sim 3$ km s$^{-1}$, in agreement with typical observed values for such structures. The clumps break down into massive cores of sizes $\sim 0.1$ pc, densities $\sim 10^5$, masses 2-300 $M_\odot$, with distributions of these quantities that peak at the same values as the massive core sample in a recent survey of the Cygnus X molecular cloud complex. Although preliminary, these results suggest that high-mass star forming clumps may be in a state of global gravitational collapse rather than in equilibrium supported by strong turbulence.

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