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巨分子云II的全球演化:吸积作用

The Global Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds II: The Role of Accretion

Nathan J. Goldbaum, Mark R. Krumholz, Christopher D. Matzner, Christopher F. McKee

摘要:

我们提出了巨型分子云全球演化的维里模型。聚焦于吸积流的存在,并考虑由吸积和恒星形成反馈提供的质量、动量和能量,我们能够跟踪单个巨型分子云的生长、演化和扩散。我们的模型云再现了在银河系和河外云中观察到的尺度关系。我们发现,吸积和恒星形成的贡献贡献大致相等数额的湍流动能在云的寿命。云达到维里平衡并以这样一种方式生长,即维持大致恒定的表面密度,典型的表面密度在50 ~ 200 Msun pc^-2的量级,这与银河系和附近外星系中巨大分子云的观测结果非常一致。我们发现,随着云的增长,它们的速度色散和半径也必须增加,这意味着线宽大小的关系构成了一个年龄序列。最后,我们将我们的模型与LMC中的巨型分子云和相关年轻星团的观测结果进行比较,发现我们的模型云与H II区域,年轻星团和巨型分子云之间的观测关系之间存在良好的一致性。

英文摘要:

We present virial models for the global evolution of giant molecular clouds. Focusing on the presence of an accretion flow, and accounting for the amount of mass, momentum, and energy supplied by accretion and star formation feedback, we are able to follow the growth, evolution, and dispersal of individual giant molecular clouds. Our model clouds reproduce the scaling relations observed in both galactic and extragalactic clouds. We find that accretion and star formation contribute contribute roughly equal amounts of turbulent kinetic energy over the lifetime of the cloud. Clouds attain virial equilibrium and grow in such a way as to maintain roughly constant surface densities, with typical surface densities of order 50 - 200 Msun pc^-2, in good agreement with observations of giant molecular clouds in the Milky Way and nearby external galaxies. We find that as clouds grow, their velocity dispersion and radius must also increase, implying that the linewidth-size relation constitutes an age sequence. Lastly, we compare our models to observations of giant molecular clouds and associated young star clusters in the LMC and find good agreement between our model clouds and the observed relationship between H ii regions, young star clusters, and giant molecular clouds.

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