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高质量恒星形成的初始条件:Herschel Hi-GAL巡天中发现的IRDC的辐射转移模型

The initial conditions of high-mass star formation: radiative transfer models of IRDCs seen in the Herschel Hi-GAL survey

L. A. Wilcock, J. M. Kirk, D. Stamatellos, D. Ward-Thompson, A. Whitworth, C. Battersby, C. Brunt, G. A. Fuller, M. Griffin, S. Molinari, P. Martin, J. C. Mottr… 展开作者

L. A. Wilcock, J. M. Kirk, D. Stamatellos, D. Ward-Thompson, A. Whitworth, C. Battersby, C. Brunt, G. A. Fuller, M. Griffin, S. Molinari, P. Martin, J. C. Mottram, N. Peretto, R. Plume, H. A. Smith, M. A. Thompson

摘要:

密集的红外暗云(IRDC)可能代表了高质量恒星形成的最早可观测阶段。这些云非常冷,因此它们主要发射远红外和亚毫米波长。赫歇尔首次提供了IRDC内核心的多波长、空间分辨观测结果,当与辐射转移模型相结合时,可以限制它们的性质,如质量、密度分布和尘埃温度。我们使用一个三维,多波长的蒙特卡罗辐射转移代码详细模拟从六个核心的发射在三个典型的IRDC中看到的Hi-GAL调查(G030.50+00.95,G031.03+00.26和G031.03+00.76),从而确定这些核心的属性,并将它们与它们的低质量等价物。我们发现质量从90到290太阳质量,温度从8到11 K在每个核心的中心和18到28 K在表面。我们计算了每个核心中嵌入恒星的最大光度,排除了在我们的三个核心中尚未发生显着的高质量恒星形成的可能性。

英文摘要:

The densest infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) may represent the earliest observable stage of high-mass star formation. These clouds are very cold, hence they emit mainly at far-infrared and sub-mm wavelengths. For the first time, Herschel has provided multi-wavelength, spatially resolved observations of cores within IRDCs, which, when combined with radiative transfer modelling, can constrain their properties, such as mass, density profile and dust temperature. We use a 3D, multi-wavelength Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to model in detail the emission from six cores in three typical IRDCs seen in the Hi-GAL survey (G030.50+00.95, G031.03+00.26 and G031.03+00.76), and thereby to determine the properties of these cores and compare them with their low-mass equivalents. We found masses ranging from 90 to 290 solar masses with temperatures from 8 to 11K at the centre of each core and 18 to 28K at the surface. The maximum luminosity of an embedded star within each core was calculated, and we rule out the possibility of significant high mass star formation having yet occurred in three of our cores.

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