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金属、尘埃和宇宙微波背景:高红移恒星形成云的碎裂

Metals, dust and the cosmic microwave background: fragmentation of high-redshift star-forming clouds

Raffaella Schneider, Kazuyuki Omukai

摘要:

研究了宇宙微波背景(CMB)辐射场对星前云坍缩的影响。使用半解析模型跟踪不同初始金属丰度和尘埃含量的云在不同红移下的热演化,我们自洽地研究了云碎裂时的平均Jeans质量对金属线冷却、尘埃冷却和CMB的响应。在没有尘埃颗粒的情况下,当红移z < 10时,当金属丰度为10^{-4} Zsun < Z < 10^{-2.5} Zsun时,会形成中等特征质量(相当于10 s的Msun);在更高的金属丰度下,CMB抑制碎裂,只形成非常大的质量(相当于~ 100 s的Msun)。这些影响在z > 10时变得更加显著,并且碎裂质量尺度总是> Msun的100 s,与初始金属丰度无关。当尘埃颗粒存在时,亚太阳质量碎片会在任何红移(金属丰度Z > 10^{-6} Zsun)处形成,因为尘埃冷却对CMB的存在相对不敏感。当Z > 10^{-3} Zsun时,宇宙微波背景辐射在z > 5时对尘埃颗粒的加热有利于形成更大的质量,当Z > 10^{-2} Zsun且z > 10时,这些质量成为超太阳质量。最后,我们讨论了我们的结果的解释非常贫金属恒星的观测丰度模式的星系晕的影响。

英文摘要:

We investigate the effects of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation field on the collapse of prestellar clouds. Using a semi-analytic model to follow the thermal evolution of clouds with varying initial metallicities and dust contents at different redshifts, we study self-consistently the response of the mean Jeans mass at cloud fragmentation to metal line-cooling, dust-cooling and the CMB. In the absence of dust grains, at redshifts z < 10 moderate characteristic masses (of 10s of Msun) are formed when the metallicity is 10^{-4} Zsun < Z < 10^{-2.5} Zsun; at higher metallicities, the CMB inhibits fragmentation and only very large masses (of ~ 100s of Msun) are formed. These effects become even more dramatic at z > 10 and the fragmentation mass scales are always > 100s of Msun, independent of the initial metallicity. When dust grains are present, sub-solar mass fragments are formed at any redshift for metallicities Z > 10^{-6} Zsun because dust-cooling remains relatively insensitive to the presence of the CMB. When Z > 10^{-3} Zsun, heating of dust grains by the CMB at z > 5 favors the formation of larger masses, which become super-solar when Z > 10^{-2} Zsun and z > 10. Finally, we discuss the implications of our result for the interpretation of the observed abundance patterns of very metal-poor stars in the galactic halo.

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