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分子云的结构和团簇质量函数的普适性

The structure of molecular clouds and the universality of the clump mass function

Rowan J. Smith, Paul C. Clark, Ian A. Bonnell

摘要:

使用SPH模拟的分子云中的恒星形成区域,我们表明,出现一个团块质量函数(CMF)类似的恒星初始质量函数(IMF)是分子云结构的一个普遍存在的功能,但要注意其过度解释。在这项研究中,我们采用三种不同的技术来提取团块。在前两种方法中,我们分别使用位置-位置(PP)和位置-位置-速度(PPV)信息,将SPH粒子数据插值到2维和3维网格中。在最后一种技术中,直接在SPH数据上执行块查找,利用完整的3维位置信息。虽然CMF通常与附近恒星形成区域的观测结果相似,但发现单个团块及其质量是不可靠的,因为它们强烈依赖于团块发现的参数和方法。特别是,我们发现,分辨率和方向的数据作出显着的差异,所产生的属性的PP和PPV的情况下确定的团块。我们的结论是,CMF和恒星IMF之间的比较应谨慎进行,因为一个团块边界的定义,因此团块的数量和它们的属性,是任意的提取方法。如果分子云真的是无尺度的,这一点尤其正确。

英文摘要:

Using an SPH simulation of a star-forming region in a molecular cloud, we show that the emergence of a clump mass function (CMF) resembling the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a ubiquitous feature of molecular cloud structure, but caution against its over-interpretation. We employ three different techniques to extract the clumps in this study. In the first two, we interpolate the SPH particle data to 2 and 3 dimensional grids before performing the clump-find, using position-position (PP) and position-position-velocity (PPV) information respectively. In the last technique, the clump-finding is performed on the SPH data directly, making use of the full 3 dimensional position information. Although the CMF is typically similar to that observed in regions of nearby star formation, the individual clumps and their masses are found to be unreliable since they depend strongly on the parameters and the method of the clump-finding. In particular we find that the resolution and orientation of the data make a significant difference to the resulting properties of the identified clumps in the PP and PPV cases. We conclude that making comparisons between a CMF and the stellar IMF should be done with caution, since the definition of a clump boundary, and hence the number of clumps and their properties, are arbitrary in the extraction method. This is especially true if molecular clouds are truly scale free.

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