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IRDC G34 .43+00.24中分布的低质量恒星形成

Distributed Low-Mass Star Formation in the IRDC G34.43+00.24

Jonathan B. Foster, Héctor G. Arce, Marc Kassis, Patricio Sanhueza, James M. Jackson, Susanna C. Finn, Stella Offner, Takeshi Sakai, Nami Sakai, Satoshi Yamamot… 展开作者

Jonathan B. Foster, Héctor G. Arce, Marc Kassis, Patricio Sanhueza, James M. Jackson, Susanna C. Finn, Stella Offner, Takeshi Sakai, Nami Sakai, Satoshi Yamamoto, Andrés E. Guzmán, Jill M. Rathborne

摘要:

我们利用自适应光学进行了深近红外观测,发现了一个分布在银河系红外暗云G34.43+00.24中的低质量原恒星群。我们使用多个波长的尘埃排放图来确定云的柱密度结构。结合一个经过验证的背景恒星的星等分布模型,这个列密度图使我们能够可靠地确定红色源的过密度,这是由于嵌入在云中的原恒星。我们还通过它们的K波段扩展发射来识别原恒星,这些扩展发射来自原恒星流出物或反射星云中的激发H2。我们发现了一个人口分布的低质量的原恒星,这表明低质量的原恒星可能会形成早于,或同时,高质量的原恒星在这样的灯丝。低质量的原恒星群体也可能产生在一些没有高质量原恒星的云中观察到的窄线宽SiO发射。最后,我们使用的云的分子线图,以确定沿灯丝的每单位长度的维里参数,并发现最高质量的原恒星形成在最绑定的部分的灯丝,所建议的理论模型。

英文摘要:

We have used deep near-infrared observations with adaptive optics to discover a distributed population of low-mass protostars within the filamentary Infrared Dark Cloud G34.43+00.24. We use maps of dust emission at multiple wavelengths to determine the column density structure of the cloud. In combination with an empirically-verified model of the magnitude distribution of background stars, this column density map allows us to reliably determine overdensities of red sources that are due to embedded protostars in the cloud. We also identify protostars through their extended emission in K-band which comes from excited H2 in protostellar outflows or reflection nebulosity. We find a population of distributed low-mass protostars, suggesting that low-mass protostars may form earlier than, or contemporaneously with, high-mass protostars in such a filament. The low-mass protostellar population may also produce the narrow linewidth SiO emission observed in some clouds without high-mass protostars. Finally, we use a molecular line map of the cloud to determine the virial parameter per unit length along the filament and find that the highest mass protostars form in the most bound portion of the filament, as suggested by theoretical models.

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