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arXiv 0904.2002astro-ph.GA
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了解全球银河系恒星形成

Understanding Global Galactic Star Formation

Paul A. Scowen, Rolf Jansen, Matthew Beasley, Daniela Calzetti, Steven Desch, John Gallagher, Mark McCaughrean, Robert O'Connell, Sally Oey, Deborah Padgett, Ak… 展开作者

Paul A. Scowen, Rolf Jansen, Matthew Beasley, Daniela Calzetti, Steven Desch, John Gallagher, Mark McCaughrean, Robert O'Connell, Sally Oey, Deborah Padgett, Aki Roberge, Nathan Smith

摘要:

我们向社会提出了一个全面的银河系恒星形成区域的紫外/光学/近红外成像调查,以探索恒星形成过程的各个方面。这项研究的主要目标是了解星周原行星盘的演化,以及在各种不同环境中恒星形成的其他细节。这需要对银河系附近的恒星形成区域进行全面的发射线调查,在那里,高空间分辨率的望远镜+相机将能够分辨星周物质和激波结构。除了解析星周盘本身之外,这种观测还将研究年轻恒星的喷流和外流中的冲击,这是仍嵌入其周围分子云中的最年轻原行星盘中吸积的探测器。这些数据将首次允许测量大质量恒星形成区域中大量恒星和喷流/冲击的自行,为研究这些环境的动态打开了一个新的窗口。它将需要优于30质量的分辨率和稳定的PSF,以进行精确的天体测量和恒星和星云的测光。这些数据将允许为数百万颗年轻恒星制作精确的颜色-颜色和颜色星等图,以研究它们的演化状态。我们还可以确定恒星的自转、多重性和成团统计,作为银河系环境和位置的函数。我们第一次可以系统地绘制HII区域、恒星风、超新星遗迹和超壳层/超气泡的详细激发结构。这次巡天将提供理解恒星形成所需的基本数据,恒星形成是控制宇宙重子成分演化的基本天体物理过程。

英文摘要:

We propose to the community a comprehensive UV/optical/NIR imaging survey of Galactic star formation regions to probe all aspects of the star formation process. The primary goal of such a study is to understand the evolution of circumstellar protoplanetary disks and other detailed aspects of star formation in a wide variety of different environments. This requires a comprehensive emission-line survey of nearby star-forming regions in the Milky Way, where a high spatial resolution telescope+camera will be capable of resolving circumstellar material and shock structures. In addition to resolving circumstellar disks themselves, such observations will study shocks in the jets and outflows from young stars, which are probes of accretion in the youngest protoplanetary disks still embedded in their surrounding molecular clouds. These data will allow the measurement of proper motions for a large sample of stars and jets/shocks in massive star-forming regions for the first time, opening a new window to study the dynamics of these environments. It will require better than 30 mas resolution and a stable PSF to conduct precision astrometry and photometry of stars and nebulae. Such data will allow production of precise color-color and color magnitude diagrams for millions of young stars to study their evolutionary states. One can also determine stellar rotation, multiplicity, and clustering statistics as functions of environment and location in the Galaxy. For the first time we can systematically map the detailed excitation structure of HII regions, stellar winds, supernova remnants, and supershells/superbubbles. This survey will provide the basic data required to understand star formation as a fundamental astrophysical process that controls the evolution of the baryonic contents of the Universe.

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