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分子云形成MHD模拟中的团簇形态和演化

Clump morphology and evolution in MHD simulations of molecular cloud formation

Robi Banerjee, Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Patrick Hennebelle, Ralf Klessen

摘要:

摘要:我们研究了在三维弱磁化磁流体动力学模拟的收敛流在热膨胀,温暖的中性介质(WNM)中形成的团块的性质。我们发现:(1)与经典两相介质中的情况类似,冷的、致密的团块通过在会聚流之间的压缩层中的动态触发的热不稳定性形成,并且通常以在其边界处的急剧密度跳跃为特征,尽管不总是如此。(2)然而,团块的边界是相变前沿,而不是接触不连续性,因此它们的尺寸和质量主要是通过WNM材料通过它们的边界吸积而增长的。(3)团块边界通常由热不稳定气体的薄层组成,但这些层通常会因湍流而变宽,并深入团块中。(4)团块与其周围环境大致处于冲压和热压力平衡,这种条件使其内部马赫数与碰撞WNM流的大部分马赫数相当。(5)团块的平均温度通常为20 < T < 50 K,对应于它们在近等温状态方程下包含的广泛密度范围(20 < n < 5000 pcc)。(6)WNM的湍流冲压压力波动引起密度波动,然后作为种子的局部引力坍缩内的团块。(7)速度和磁场倾向于在团块内彼此对齐,尽管两者都是显著波动的,这表明速度倾向于拉伸并使磁场与之对齐。(8)团块中的典型平均场强比WNM中的平均场强大几倍。(9)磁场强度平均值为B ~ 6 μ G..

英文摘要:

Abridged: We study the properties of clumps formed in three-dimensional weakly magnetized magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of converging flows in the thermally bistable, warm neutral medium (WNM). We find that: (1) Similarly to the situation in the classical two-phase medium, cold, dense clumps form through dynamically-triggered thermal instability in the compressed layer between the convergent flows, and are often characterised by a sharp density jump at their boundaries though not always. (2) However, the clumps are bounded by phase-transition fronts rather than by contact discontinuities, and thus they grow in size and mass mainly by accretion of WNM material through their boundaries. (3) The clump boundaries generally consist of thin layers of thermally unstable gas, but these layers are often widened by the turbulence, and penetrate deep into the clumps. (4) The clumps are approximately in both ram and thermal pressure balance with their surroundings, a condition which causes their internal Mach numbers to be comparable to the bulk Mach number of the colliding WNM flows. (5) The clumps typically have mean temperatures 20 < T < 50 K, corresponding to the wide range of densities they contain (20 < n < 5000 pcc) under a nearly-isothermal equation of state. (6) The turbulent ram pressure fluctuations of the WNM induce density fluctuations that then serve as seeds for local gravitational collapse within the clumps. (7) The velocity and magnetic fields tend to be aligned with each other within the clumps, although both are significantly fluctuating, suggesting that the velocity tends to stretch and align the magnetic field with it. (8) The typical mean field strength in the clumps is a few times larger than that in the WNM. (9) The magnetic field strength has a mean value of B ~ 6 mu G ...

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