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分子云的结构:III -云结构和恒星形成模式之间的联系

The Structure of Molecular Clouds: III - A link between cloud structure and star formation mode

J. Rowles, D. Froebrich

摘要:

我们分析了附近的巨型分子云的消光图,以建立湍流驱动过程和恒星形成模式之间的联系。我们的研究重点是柱密度范围内的云结构,该范围高于1 mag Av的自屏蔽阈值,低于恒星形成阈值--预计湍流将占主导地位的区域。我们确定云与浅质量分布的集群形成。以不太密集或孤立的方式形成恒星的云显示出更陡峭的质量分布。结构函数被证明不足以区分不同恒星形成模式的云。然而,它们可能表明,平均云中的湍流是由螺线管强迫控制的。使用Delta方差分析也发现了同样的结果,这也表明具有恒星形成的集群模式的云在湍流场中显示出增强的压缩驱动分量。因此,虽然恒星的形成发生在每个云,独立的湍流驱动机制,压缩力似乎与星团的形成。

英文摘要:

We analyse extinction maps of nearby Giant Molecular Clouds to forge a link between driving processes of turbulence and modes of star formation. Our investigation focuses on cloud structure in the column density range above the self shielding threshold of 1mag Av and below the star formation threshold -- the regime in which turbulence is expected to dominate. We identify clouds with shallow mass distributions as cluster forming. Clouds that form stars in a less clustered or isolated mode show a steeper mass distribution. Structure functions prove inadequate to distinguish between clouds of different star formation mode. They may, however, suggest that the turbulence in the average cloud is governed by solenoidal forcing. The same is found using the Delta-variance analysis which also indicates that clouds with a clustered mode of star formation show an enhanced component of compressive driving in the turbulent field. Thus, while star formation occurs in each cloud, independent of the turbulent driving mechanism, compressive forcing appears to be associated with the formation of stellar clusters.

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