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低效的恒星形成:磁场和辐射反馈的综合效应

Inefficient star formation: The combined effects of magnetic fields and radiative feedback

Daniel J. Price, Matthew R. Bate

摘要:

利用自引力辐射磁流体动力学方法研究了磁场和辐射反馈对恒星形成过程的影响。我们提出的结果从一系列的计算50太阳质量的分子云的崩溃与各种磁场强度和有和没有辐射转移。我们发现磁场和辐射对恒星的形成都有巨大的影响,尽管这两种影响在很多方面是互补的。磁场主要在大尺度上为低密度气体提供支持,而辐射被发现通过增加原恒星附近高密度物质的温度来强烈抑制小尺度的碎片化。在强磁场和辐射反馈的情况下,最终的结果是一个低效的恒星形成过程,每个自由落体时间的恒星形成率约<10%,接近观测到的速率,尽管我们只能遵循恒星形成开始后约1/3自由落体时间的计算。

英文摘要:

We investigate the effects of magnetic fields and radiative protostellar feedback on the star formation process using self-gravitating radiation magnetohydrodynamical calculations. We present results from a series of calculations of the collapse of 50 solar mass molecular clouds with various magnetic field strengths and with and without radiative transfer. We find that both magnetic fields and radiation have a dramatic impact on star formation, though the two effects are in many ways complementary. Magnetic fields primarily provide support on large scales to low density gas, whereas radiation is found to strongly suppress small-scale fragmentation by increasing the temperature in the high-density material near the protostars. With strong magnetic fields and radiative feedback the net result is an inefficient star formation process with a star formation rate of ~< 10% per free-fall time that approaches the observed rate, although we have only been able to follow the calculations for ~1/3 of a free-fall time beyond the onset of star formation.

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