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星前核质量分布对母体云结构的依赖性

The Dependence of Prestellar Core Mass Distributions on the Structure of the Parental Cloud

Antonio Parravano, Nestor Sanchez, Emilio J. Alfaro

摘要:

星前核的质量分布得到任意的内部质量分布的云使用的选择标准的基础上的热和湍流的金斯质量和应用层次从小到大的尺度。我们已经检查了这种方法比较我们的结果对数正态密度PDF与理论CMF Hennebelle和Chabrier,即幂律在大尺度和对数正态截止在低尺度,但我们的方法可以适用于任何质量分布代表恒星形成云。这种方法使我们能够将母体云结构与核心的质量分布及其空间分布联系起来,为研究引起所观察到的星前核心分布的分子云的物理性质提供了一种有效的工具。Hurst指数接近H = 1/3的模拟fBm云与Hennebelle和Chabrier以及Chabrier系统IMF推导的理论CMF最吻合。同样,从我们的方法得出的核心的空间分布显示出与在梯形和蛇夫座恒星形成区域观察到的同伴的表面密度。该方法还允许我们分析不同实现的核的质量分布的性质。我们发现,在不同实现的fBm云(具有相同的赫斯特指数)中形成的核心数量的变化远远大于预期的根N统计波动,随着H的增加而增加。

英文摘要:

The mass distribution of prestellar cores is obtained for clouds with arbitrary internal mass distributions using a selection criterion based on the thermal and turbulent Jeans mass and applied hierarchically from small to large scales. We have checked this methodology comparing our results for a lognormal density PDF with the theoretical CMF derived by Hennebelle and Chabrier, namely a power-law at large scales and a log-normal cutoff at low scales, but our method can be applied to any mass distributions representing a star-forming cloud. This methodology enables us to connect the parental cloud structure with the mass distribution of the cores and their spatial distribution, providing an efficient tool for investigating the physical properties of the molecular clouds that give rise to the prestellar core distributions observed. Simulated fBm clouds with the Hurst exponent close to the value H=1/3 give the best agreement with the theoretical CMF derived by Hennebelle and Chabrier and Chabrier's system IMF. Likewise, the spatial distribution of the cores derived from our methodology show a surface density of companions compatible with those observed in Trapezium and Ophiucus star-forming regions. This method also allows us to analyze the properties of the mass distribution of cores for different realizations. We found that the variations in the number of cores formed in different realizations of fBm clouds (with the same Hurst exponent) are much larger than the expected root N statistical fluctuations, increasing with H.

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