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星前核总是会变成原恒星吗?追踪星核从星前阶段到原恒星阶段的演化

Does a prestellar core always become protostellar? Tracing the evolution of cores from the prestellar to protostellar phase

S. Anathpindika, James Di Francesco

摘要:

最近,已经确定了一个无星核心的子集,其热金斯质量显然被核心的质量所压倒,例如,核心{ \small L183}。在文献中,像这样的大规模核心通常被称为“超级牛仔核心”。由于无星核心可能处于恒星形成的尖端,对其动力学的研究将提高我们对从星前阶段到原恒星阶段过渡的理解。在目前的工作中,我们使用非磁性多面体原本属于家庭的等温球。为此目的,扰动施加到个别polytropes,第一,通过更换等温气体与气体是冷的附近的polytrope的中心和相对温暖的外部区域,第二,通过轻微的压缩的polytrope通过提高外部围压。使用后一种配置,我们确定的热力学条件下,核心可能保持无星。事实上,我们还认为,属性“超级牛仔裤”是主观的,这些核心并没有正式违反牛仔裤的稳定性标准。根据我们的测试结果,我们认为,气体温度在恒星形成云是至关重要的形成和演化的核心。在这项工作中的模拟进行了基于粒子的光滑粒子流体动力学算法。然而,建立数值收敛的结果,我们建议类似的测试与网格计划,如自适应网格细化。

英文摘要:

Recently, a subset of starless cores whose thermal Jeans mass is apparently overwhelmed by the mass of the core has been identified, e.g., the core {\small L183}. In literature, massive cores such as this one are often referred to as "super-Jeans cores". As starless cores are perhaps on the cusp of forming stars, a study of their dynamics will improve our understanding of the transition from the prestellar to the protostellar phase. In the present work we use non-magnetic polytropes belonging originally to the family of the Isothermal sphere. For the purpose, perturbations were applied to individual polytropes, first by replacing the isothermal gas with a gas that was cold near the centre of the polytrope and relatively warm in the outer regions, and second, through a slight compression of the polytrope by raising the external confining pressure. Using this latter configuration we identify thermodynamic conditions under which a core is likely to remain starless. In fact, we also argue that the attribute "super-Jeans" is subjective and that these cores do not formally violate the Jeans stability criterion. On the basis of our test results we suggest that gas temperature in a star-forming cloud is crucial towards the formation and evolution of a core. Simulations in this work were performed using the particle-based Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics algorithm. However, to establish numerical convergence of the results we suggest similar tests with a grid-scheme, such as the Adaptive mesh refinement.

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