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G-virial:分子云的引力结构分析

G-virial: Gravity-based structure analysis of molecular clouds

Guang-Xing Li, Friedrich Wyrowski, Karl Menten, Tom Megeath, Xun Shi

摘要:

我们提出了G-virial方法(可在http://gxli.github.io/G-virial/上获得),其目的是量化(1)在位置-位置-速度(PPV)空间中分子云中重力的重要性,以及(2)分子云中气体凝聚的性质。与以往计算不同区域维里参数的方法不同,我们的新方法考虑了3D PPV数据立方体中所有体素之间的重力相互作用,并生成重力重要性的地图。该映射可以与原始数据立方体组合以导出诸如质量-半径关系的关系。我们的方法很重要,有几个原因。首先,它提供了量化3D PPV数据立方体中的中心凝聚结构的能力,并使我们能够在一个统一的框架中比较它们。其次,它使我们能够理解重力在数据立方体中不同位置的重要性,并提供了云的重力的全球图片。第三,它提供了一个强大的方法来分解数据到不同的区域是引力相干的。为了证明我们的方法的应用,我们确定了英仙座和蛇夫座分子云的区域,并分析了它们的性质。我们发现重力对单个分子凝聚中心的重要性增加了。我们还量化的质量半径和质量速度关系方面的区域的属性。通过计算基于G维里的维里参数,我们发现所有的区域几乎都是引力束缚的。形成致密区的中心似乎更为致密。

英文摘要:

We present the G-virial method (available at http://gxli.github.io/G-virial/) which aims to quantify (1) the importance of gravity in molecular clouds in the position-position-velocity (PPV) space, and (2) properties of the gas condensations in molecular clouds. Different from previous approaches that calculate the virial parameter for different regions, our new method takes gravitational interactions between all the voxels in 3D PPV data cubes into account, and generates maps of the importance of gravity. This map can be combined with the original data cube to derive relations such as the mass-radius relation. Our method is important for several reasons. First, it offers the the ability to quantify the centrally condensed structures in the 3D PPV data cubes, and enables us to compare them in an uniform framework. Second, it allows us to understand the importance of gravity at different locations in the data cube, and provides a global picture of gravity in clouds. Third, it offers a robust approach to decomposing the data into different regions which are gravitationally coherent. To demonstrate the application of our method we identified regions from the Perseus and Ophiuchus molecular clouds, and analyzed their properties. We found an increase in the importance of gravity towards the centers of the individual molecular condensations. We also quantified the properties of the regions in terms of mass-radius and mass-velocity relations. Through evaluating the virial parameters based on the G-virial, we found that all our regions are almost gravitationally bound. Cluster-forming regions appear are more centrally condensed.

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