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恒星快速吸积过程的数值参数研究

On the Role of Disks in the Formation of Stellar Systems: A Numerical Parameter Study of Rapid Accretion

Kaitlin M. Kratter, Christopher D. Matzner, Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein

摘要:

我们研究快速吸积,引力不稳定盘的一系列全球性的,三维的,使用代码ORION的数值实验。在本文中,我们进行了一个数值参数的研究,专注于原恒星盘,并表明,可以预测磁盘的行为和吸积恒星系统的多重性作为两个无量纲参数的函数,比较磁盘的吸积率,其声速和轨道周期。虽然引力不稳定性变得很强,我们发现,分裂成二进制或多个系统发生时,材料下降的速度比正则等温极限的几倍。盘星吸积速率与下落速率成正比,并受低m螺旋模产生的引力矩控制。我们还确认存在一个最大的稳定磁盘质量:磁盘超过50%的总系统质量受到破碎和随后形成的二进制同伴。

英文摘要:

We study rapidly accreting, gravitationally unstable disks with a series of global, three dimensional, numerical experiments using the code ORION. In this paper we conduct a numerical parameter study focused on protostellar disks, and show that one can predict disk behavior and the multiplicity of the accreting star system as a function of two dimensionless parameters which compare the disk's accretion rate to its sound speed and orbital period. Although gravitational instabilities become strong, we find that fragmentation into binary or multiple systems occurs only when material falls in several times more rapidly than the canonical isothermal limit. The disk-to-star accretion rate is proportional to the infall rate, and governed by gravitational torques generated by low-m spiral modes. We also confirm the existence of a maximum stable disk mass: disks that exceed ~50% of the total system mass are subject to fragmentation and the subsequent formation of binary companions.

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