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英仙座致密核:恒星成分和星团环境的影响

Dense Cores in Perseus: The Influence of Stellar Content and Cluster Environment

Jonathan B. Foster, Erik W. Rosolowsky, Jens Kauffman, Jaime E. Pineda, Michelle A. Borkin, Paola Caselli, Phil C. Myers, Alyssa A. Goodman

摘要:

我们提出的化学,温度和动力学状态的一个样本的193个致密的核心或核心候选人在英仙座分子云,并比较与年轻恒星和集群的核心与那些没有。我们的NH3和CCS观测与以前的毫米,亚毫米和斯皮策数据相结合,使我们能够精确地确定核心属性,并准确地将核心分类为无星或原恒星。在不同的集群环境和恒星形成前后的核心的属性提供了重要的限制恒星形成的模拟,特别是在恒星形成的本质是由星前核心的湍流形成的范例。我们将恒星含量的影响与星系团环境的影响分开,发现星系团内部的核心具有(1)较高的动力学温度和(2)较低的CCS和NH3丰度。与原恒星相关的核心具有(1)略高的动力学温度(2)较高的NH3激发温度),(3)具有较高的柱密度,(4)具有略大的非热/湍流NH3线宽,(5)具有较高的质量,(6)具有较低的CCS丰度。我们发现,无论是集群环境,也没有原恒星的内容作出显着的差异,核心的动力学状态的维里参数估计-大多数核心在每个类别中的引力约束。总体而言,集群环境和原恒星的内容有一个较小的影响,核心的属性比通常假设的,和类别内的变化是大于类别之间的差异。

英文摘要:

We present the chemistry, temperature, and dynamical state of a sample of 193 dense cores or core candidates in the Perseus Molecular cloud and compare the properties of cores associated with young stars and clusters with those which are not. The combination of our NH3 and CCS observations with previous millimeter, sub-millimeter, and Spitzer data available for this cloud enable us both to determine core properties precisely and to accurately classify cores as starless or protostellar. The properties of cores in different cluster environments and before-and-after star formation provide important constraints on simulations of star-formation, particularly under the paradigm that the essence of star formation is set by the turbulent formation of prestellar cores. We separate the influence of stellar content from that of cluster environment and find that cores within clusters have (1) higher kinetic temperatures and (2) lower fractional abundances of CCS and NH3. Cores associated with protostars have (1) slightly higher kinetic temperatures (2) higher NH3 excitation temperatures), (3) are at higher column density, have (4) slightly more non-thermal/turbulent NH3 linewidths, have (5) higher masses and have (6) lower fractional abundance of CCS. We find that neither cluster environment nor protostellar content makes a significant difference to the dynamical state of cores as estimated by the virial parameter -- most cores in each category are gravitationally bound. Overall, cluster environment and protostellar content have a smaller influence on the properties of the cores than is typically assumed, and the variation within categories is larger than the differences between categories.

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