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电离诱导的恒星形成IV:束缚星系团中的触发

Ionization--induced star formation IV: Triggering in bound clusters

J. E. Dale, B. Ercolano, I. A. Bonnell

摘要:

我们提出了一个详细的研究恒星形成的影响下,从大质量恒星的内部电离反馈的云属性的范围内发生在绑定的恒星形成云。我们推断哪些对象被触发比较我们的反馈模拟与控制模拟,其中没有反馈。我们发现反馈总是导致较低的恒星形成效率,通常但不总是导致大量的恒星或星团。星系团的质量函数不受反馈的强烈影响,但恒星的质量函数偏向于较低的质量。电离作用也会影响恒星的几何分布,这种影响对投影效应是稳健的,但可能会使恒星协会或多或少地亚集群,这取决于背景云环境。我们观察到一个突出的支柱,在一个模拟,这是吸积流的剩余物喂养其主机云的中央电离集群,并建议这可能是一个一般的形成机制,如在M16中观察到的支柱。我们发现,恒星与气体中的结构(如壳或柱)的关联是一个很好的,但绝不是万无一失的指示,表明这些恒星已经被触发,我们得出的结论是,很难推断出哪些物体是诱导形成的,哪些是自发形成的,仅仅从一个单一的时间观察系统。

英文摘要:

We present a detailed study of star formation occurring in bound star--forming clouds under the influence of internal ionizing feedback from massive stars across a spectrum of cloud properties. We infer which objects are triggered by comparing our feedback simulations with control simulations in which no feedback was present. We find feedback always results in a lower star--formation efficiency and usually but not always results in a larger number of stars or clusters. Cluster mass functions are not strongly affected by feedback, but stellar mass functions are biased towards lower masses. Ionization also affects the geometrical distribution of stars in ways that are robust against projection effects, but may make the stellar associations more or less subclustered depending on the background cloud environment. We observe a prominent pillar in one simulation which is the remains of an accretion flow feeding the central ionizing cluster of its host cloud and suggest that this may be a general formation mechanism for pillars such as those observed in M16. We find that the association of stars with structures in the gas such as shells or pillars is a good but by no means foolproof indication that those stars have been triggered and we conclude overall that it is very difficult to deduce which objects have been induced to form and which formed spontaneously simply from observing the system at a single time.

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