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恒星形成过程中的磁场和辐射反馈

Magnetic fields and radiative feedback in the star formation process

Daniel J. Price, Matthew R. Bate

摘要:

恒星的形成是一个复杂的过程,涉及许多物理效应的相互作用,包括重力、湍流气体动力学、磁场和辐射。近年来,我们对这一过程的理解有了很大的提高,这主要是因为我们在恒星形成过程的数值计算中结合相关物理学的能力有所提高。在这篇文章中,我们提出了一个概述,我们最近的研究恒星团簇形成的湍流,磁化云使用自引力辐射磁流体力学计算(价格和贝特2008年,2009年)。讨论了我们将磁场和辐射转移引入光滑粒子流体力学方法的情况。我们强调新生恒星周围气体的磁场和辐射加热如何解决恒星形成中的几个关键难题,包括解释为什么恒星形成是一个缓慢而低效的过程。然而,在坍缩的原恒星核中存在观测强度的磁场也会导致较小尺度的问题,包括形成原恒星盘和双星的困难(Price and Bate 2007,Hennebelle and Teyssier 2008),这表明我们对磁场在恒星形成中的作用的理解还不完整。

英文摘要:

Star formation is a complex process involving the interplay of many physical effects, including gravity, turbulent gas dynamics, magnetic fields and radiation. Our understanding of the process has improved substantially in recent years, primarily as a result of our increased ability to incorporate the relevant physics in numerical calculations of the star formation process. In this contribution we present an overview of our recent studies of star cluster formation in turbulent, magnetised clouds using self-gravitating radiation-magnetohydrodynamics calculations (Price and Bate 2008, 2009). Our incorporation of magnetic fields and radiative transfer into the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method are discussed. We highlight how magnetic fields and radiative heating of the gas around newborn stars can solve several of the key puzzles in star formation, including an explanation for why star formation is such a slow and inefficient process. However, the presence of magnetic fields at observed strengths in collapsing protostellar cores also leads to problems on smaller scales, including a difficulty in forming protostellar discs and binary stars (Price and Bate 2007, Hennebelle and Teyssier 2008), which suggests that our understanding of the role of magnetic fields in star formation is not yet complete.

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