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云与云的碰撞会引发大质量恒星的形成吗?I.小云团碰撞

Do cloud-cloud collisions trigger high-mass star formation? I. Small cloud collisions

Ken Takahira, Elizabeth J. Tasker, Asao Habe

摘要:

我们进行了亚秒差距(~0.06pc)尺度模拟的两个理想化的分子云与不同的质量进行碰撞。密度大于1 e-20 g/cm-3(0.3e4 cm-3)的气体团被确定为星前核心,并通过模拟进行跟踪。碰撞系统在碰撞界面处的斜激波阵面上呈现出部分气弧形态,并有核心形成。这些特征支持NANTEN对疑似碰撞巨型分子云(GMC)的物体的观测。我们研究了湍流和碰撞速度对所产生的核心人口的影响,并比较了所观察到的GMCs中的核心的累积质量分布。我们的研究结果表明,更快的相对速度增加的核心形成的数量,但核心增长主要是通过吸积,而在冲击波前,导致一个较慢的冲击更重要的核心增长。核心质量服从指数γ =-1.6的幂律关系,与观测结果吻合良好。这表明,通过碰撞产生的核心应遵循类似的质量分布作为静态的形成,虽然在一个更高的质量范围。如果核心在成长过程中可以被支撑以防止坍缩,那么气体流入所产生的冲压压力是正确的,可以抵消辐射压力,形成一颗100 Msun的恒星。

英文摘要:

We performed sub-parsec (~0.06pc) scale simulations of two idealised molecular clouds with different masses undergoing a collision. Gas clumps with density greater than 1e-20 g/cm3 (0.3e4 cm-3) were identified as pre-stellar cores and tracked through the simulation. The colliding system showed a partial gas arc morphology with core formation in the oblique shock-front at the collision interface. These characteristics support NANTEN observations of objects suspected to be colliding giant molecular clouds (GMCs). We investigated the effect of turbulence and collision speed on the resulting core population and compared the cumulative mass distribution to cores in observed GMCs. Our results suggest that a faster relative velocity increases the number of cores formed but that cores grow via accretion predominately while in the shock front, leading to a slower shock being more important for core growth. The core masses obey a power law relation with index gamma = -1.6, in good agreement with observations. This suggests that core production through collisions should follow a similar mass distribution as quiescent formation, albeit at a higher mass range. If cores can be supported against collapse during their growth, the estimated ram pressure from gas infall is of the right order to counter the radiation pressure and form a star of 100Msun.

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