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星系中恒星形成的定律

A law for star formation in galaxies

Andres Escala

摘要:

我们研究恒星形成的银河系尺度触发。我们发现,最大的质量尺度不稳定的旋转,一个很好的定义量在一个旋转系统,并具有明确的动力学意义,强烈相关的恒星形成率在很大范围内的星系。我们发现,这种关系可以理解的自我调节边缘Toomre稳定性和湍流允许维持系统在这种自我调节的准稳态的量。我们测试这样的解释,计算预测的恒星形成率的银河系星际介质的对数正态概率分布函数的特点,并找到良好的协议与观察到的关系。

英文摘要:

We study the galactic-scale triggering of star formation. We find that the largest mass-scale not stabilized by rotation, a well defined quantity in a rotating system and with clear dynamical meaning, strongly correlates with the star formation rate in a wide range of galaxies. We find that this relation can be understood in terms of self-regulation towards marginal Toomre stability and the amount of turbulence allowed to sustain the system in this self-regulated quasi-stationary state. We test such an interpretation by computing the predicted star formation rates for a galactic interstellar medium characterized by lognormal probability distribution function and find good agreement with the observed relation.

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