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磁制动对强磁化云中星周盘形成的影响

Effect of Magnetic Braking on the Circumstellar Disk Formation in a Strongly Magnetized Cloud

Masahiro N. Machida, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Tomoaki Matsumoto

摘要:

利用电阻磁流体力学模拟,我们研究了强磁化云中星周盘的形成。作为初始状态,孤立的云核嵌入在低密度星际介质与均匀磁场。云的演化计算直到初始云内几乎所有的气体都落在星周盘或原恒星上,并且一部分气体被星周盘驱动的原恒星流出物喷射到星际介质中。在早期的主吸积阶段,盘的大小被限制在\sim 10 AU,因为角动量的拱星盘是有效地转移的磁制动和原恒星流出。然而,在主吸积阶段的后期,星周盘迅速增长,并在主吸积阶段结束时超过100 AU。星周盘的这种快速增长是由下落包层的耗尽引起的,而当下落包层比星周盘质量更大时,磁制动是有效的。当星周盘的质量大于下落包层时,下落包层不能使星周盘制动。此外,在主吸积阶段后期,原恒星外流减弱并消失,因为外流是由气体吸积到星周盘上提供动力的。虽然在磁化云中形成的星周盘比在非磁化云中形成的星周盘小得多,但即使在强磁化云中也可以形成超过100天文单位的星周盘。

英文摘要:

Using resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation, we investigate circumstellar disk formation in a strongly magnetized cloud. As the initial state, an isolated cloud core embedded in a low-density interstellar medium with a uniform magnetic field is adopted. The cloud evolution is calculated until almost all gas inside the initial cloud falls onto either the circumstellar disk or a protostar, and a part of the gas is ejected into the interstellar medium by the protostellar outflow driven by the circumstellar disk. In the early main accretion phase, the disk size is limited to \sim 10 AU because the angular momentum of the circumstellar disk is effectively transferred by both magnetic braking and the protostellar outflow. In the later main accretion phase, however, the circumstellar disk grows rapidly and exceeds 100 AU by the end of the main accretion phase. This rapid growth of the circumstellar disk is caused by the depletion of the infalling envelope, while magnetic braking is effective when the infalling envelope is more massive than the circumstellar disk. The infalling envelope cannot brake the circumstellar disk when the latter is more massive than the former. In addition, the protostellar outflow weakens and disappears in the later main accretion phase, because the outflow is powered by gas accretion onto the circumstellar disk. Although the circumstellar disk formed in a magnetized cloud is considerably smaller than that in an unmagnetized cloud, a circumstellar disk exceeding 100 AU can form even in a strongly magnetized cloud.

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