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年轻星团AFGL961中的多种原恒星演化状态

Diverse protostellar evolutionary states in the young cluster AFGL961

Jonathan P. Williams, Rita K. Mann, Christopher N. Beaumont, Jonathan J. Swift, Joseph D. Adams, Joe Hora, Marc Kassis, Elizabeth A. Lada, Carlos G. Roman-Zuniga

摘要:

我们提出了弧秒分辨率的中红外和毫米观测的年轻星团AFGL 961的玫瑰分子云的中心。在0.2 pc的范围内,我们发现一颗早期的B星嵌入在致密的核心中,一颗邻近的恒星具有相似的光度,没有毫米对应物,一颗原恒星在外接圆星团的信封中清除了一个空腔,还有两个大质量的致密核心,没有红外对应物。从其中一个核心流出,表明有一颗深埋的原恒星,但另一个核心没有恒星,被束缚着,似乎正在坍塌。状态的多样性意味着要么原恒星在星团中的演化比在孤立状态下更快,要么星团通过准静态而不是动态坍缩形成。在星团中心存在的前恒星核心表明,一些恒星的形成在大质量电离恒星之后和附近继续进行。

英文摘要:

We present arcsecond resolution mid-infrared and millimeter observations of the center of the young stellar cluster AFGL961 in the Rosette molecular cloud. Within 0.2 pc of each other, we find an early B star embedded in a dense core, a neighboring star of similar luminosity with no millimeter counterpart, a protostar that has cleared out a cavity in the circumcluster envelope, and two massive, dense cores with no infrared counterparts. An outflow emanates from one of these cores, indicating a deeply embedded protostar, but the other is starless, bound, and appears to be collapsing. The diversity of states implies either that protostellar evolution is faster in clusters than in isolation or that clusters form via quasi-static rather than dynamic collapse. The existence of a pre-stellar core at the cluster center shows that that some star formation continues after and in close proximity to massive, ionizing stars.

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