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磁场和双极扩散对核质量函数的影响

The Effect of Magnetic Fields and Ambipolar Diffusion on Core Mass Functions

Nicole D. Bailey, Shantanu Basu

摘要:

对平面磁性星际云中原恒星核的形成进行线性分析,可以得到恒星形成所涉及的长度尺度的信息。将这些长度尺度与其他环境变量的各种分布相结合,柱密度和质量通量比)和应用蒙特卡罗方法,使我们能够产生不同环境条件下的合成核心质量函数(CMFs)。我们的分析表明,CMF的形状直接取决于云的物理条件。具体而言,磁场的作用是扩大质量函数,并发展一个高质量的尾巴,而双极扩散将截断这个高质量的尾巴。此外,我们还分析了小数统计量对合成CMF形状和高质量斜率的影响。我们发现,所观察到的核心质量函数是严重的统计限制,这对高质量尾部的导出斜率有深远的影响。

英文摘要:

Linear analysis of the formation of protostellar cores in planar magnetic interstellar clouds yields information about length scales involved in star formation. Combining these length scales with various distributions of other environmental variables, (i.e., column density and mass-to-flux ratio) and applying Monte Carlo methods allow us to produce synthetic core mass functions (CMFs) for different environmental conditions. Our analysis shows that the shape of the CMF is directly dependent on the physical conditions of the cloud. Specifically, magnetic fields act to broaden the mass function and develop a high-mass tail while ambipolar diffusion will truncate this high-mass tail. In addition, we analyze the effect of small number statistics on the shape and high-mass slope of the synthetic CMFs. We find that observed core mass functions are severely statistically limited, which has a profound effect on the derived slope for the high-mass tail.

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