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暗云核的磁场:阿雷西博OH塞曼观测

Magnetic Fields in Dark Cloud Cores: Arecibo OH Zeeman Observations

Thomas H. Troland, Richard M. Crutcher

摘要:

我们已经对暗云核心的磁场强度进行了广泛的调查,以测试恒星形成的模型:双极扩散驱动或湍流驱动。该调查涉及使用阿雷西博望远镜进行$\sim500$小时的观测,以便对34个暗云核心进行敏感的OH塞曼观测。在2.5西格玛水平上实现了九个新的可能检测;检测的确定性从固体到边缘变化,因此我们分别讨论每个可能的检测。然而,我们的分析包括所有的测量,而不取决于每个位置是否有检测或只是一个敏感的测量。相反,分析建立了相关天体物理量的观测核心集的平均值(或中位数)。结果表明,质量通量比为超临界值的$\sim 2$,湍能与磁能的比值也为超临界值的$\sim 2$。这些结果与恒星形成的两种模型是一致的。然而,这些OH塞曼观测确实第一次在统计学上建立了磁场在密度为$10^{3-4}$ cm $^{-3}$的暗云核心中的能量重要性,并且它们为进一步的观测奠定了基础,可以提供更明确的测试。

英文摘要:

We have carried out an extensive survey of magnetic field strengths toward dark cloud cores in order to test models of star formation: ambipolar-diffusion driven or turbulence driven. The survey involved $\sim500$ hours of observing with the Arecibo telescope in order to make sensitive OH Zeeman observations toward 34 dark cloud cores. Nine new probable detections were achieved at the 2.5-sigma level; the certainty of the detections varies from solid to marginal, so we discuss each probable detection separately. However, our analysis includes all the measurements and does not depend on whether each position has a detection or just a sensitive measurement. Rather, the analysis establishes mean (or median) values over the set of observed cores for relevant astrophysical quantities. The results are that the mass-to-flux ratio is supercritical by $\sim 2$, and that the ratio of turbulent to magnetic energies is also $\sim 2$. These results are compatible with both models of star formation. However, these OH Zeeman observations do establish for the first time on a statistically sound basis the energetic importance of magnetic fields in dark cloud cores at densities of order $10^{3-4}$ cm$^{-3}$, and they lay the foundation for further observations that could provide a more definitive test.

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