Recent VLA and CARMA observations have shown proto-stars in binaries with unprecedented resolution. Specifically, the proto-stellar masses of systems such as CB230 IRS1 and L1165-SMM1 have been detected in the range of $0.1-0.25 \, M_{\odot}$. These are much more massive than the masses generally obtained by numerical simulations of binary formation, around $0.01 \, M_{\odot}$. Motivated by these discrepancies in mass, in this paper we study the formation mass of a binary system as a function of the total mass of its parent core. To achieve this objective, we present a set of numerical simulations of the gravitational collapse of a uniform and rotating core, in which azimuthal symmetric mass seeds are initially implemented in order to favor the formation of a dense filament, out of which a binary system may be formed by direct fragmentation. We first observed that this binary formation process is diminished when the total mass of the parent core $M_0$ is increased; then we increased the level of the ratio of kinetic energy to the gravitational energy, denoted by $β$, initially supplied to the rotating core, in order to achieve the desired direct fragmentation of the filament. Next, we found that the mass of the binary fragment increases with the mass of the parent core, as expected. In this paper we confirm this expectation and also measure the binary mass $M_f$ obtained from an initial $M_0$. We then show a schematic diagram $M_0$ vs $β$, where the desired binary configurations are located while the ratio of the thermal energy to the gravitational energy $α$ is kept fixed. We also report some basic physical data of the proto-stellar fragments that form the binary system, including the formation mass $M_f$, and its corresponding $α_f$ and $β_f$.
Formation of proto-cluster: a virialized structure from gravo-turbulent collapse II. A two-dimensional analytical model for rotating and accreting system
Disc formation and fragmentation using radiative non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics
我们调查的形成和破碎的光盘使用一套三维平滑粒子辐射磁流体动力学模拟。我们的模型被初始化为1 M $_\odot$旋转Bonnor-Ebert球线程与均匀的磁场。我们研究的效果,包括理想和非理想的磁场,方向和强度的磁场,和初始旋转速率。我们遵循的引力坍缩和早期演化的每个系统,直到最终分类的原恒星盘可以确定。在我们的105个模型中,41个碎片,21个形成螺旋结构但不碎片,另外12个形成光滑盘。当初始旋转速率较快且磁场较弱时,更容易发生碎裂。对于更强的磁场强度,包括非理想的MHD促进磁盘的形成,其中几个模型的碎片,而他们的理想MHD同行没有。对于碎片化的模型,我们的参数与碎片化发生的地点或时间之间没有相关性。双极流出仅在17个型号中发射,这些型号具有最初平行于旋转轴的强磁场。反向旋转的信封形式在四个缓慢旋转,强场模型-包括一个理想的MHD模型-表明它们只形成在一小部分的参数空间调查。
Ambipolar diffusion likely plays a pivotal role in the formation and evolution of dense cores in weakly-ionized molecular clouds. Linear analyses show that the evolutionary times and fragmentation scales are significantly greater than the hydrodynamic (Jeans) values even for clouds with mildly supercritical mass-to-flux ratio. We utilize values of fragmentation scales and growth times that correspond to typical ionization fractions within a molecular cloud, and apply to the context of the observed estimated lifetime of prestellar cores as well as the observed number of such embedded cores form…
Angular momentum is one of the most important physical quantities that govern star formation. The initial angular momentum of a core may be responsible for its fragmentation and can have an influence on the size of the protoplanetary disk. To understand how cores obtain their initial angular momentum, it is important to study the angular momentum of filaments where they form. While theoretical studies on filament rotation have been explored, there exist very few observational measurements of the specific angular momentum in star-forming filaments. We present high-resolution N2D+ ALMA observati…
Dense molecular filaments are central to the star formation process, but the detailed manner in which they fragment into prestellar cores is not yet well understood. Here, we investigate the fragmentation properties and dynamical state of several star-forming filaments in the X-shape Nebula region of the California MC, in an effort to shed some light on this issue. We used multi-wavelength far-infrared images from Herschel and the getsources and getfilaments extraction methods to identify dense cores and filaments and derive their basic properties. We also used a map of $\rm ^{13}CO (2-1)$ emi…
Theoretical and numerical works indicate that a strong magnetic field should suppress fragmentation in dense cores. However, this has never been tested observationally in a relatively large sample of fragmenting massive dense cores. Here we use the polarization data obtained in the Submillimeter Array Legacy Survey of Zhang et al. to build a sample of 18 massive dense cores where both fragmentation and magnetic field properties are studied in a uniform way. We measured the fragmentation level, Nmm, within the field of view common to all regions, of 0.15 pc, with a mass sensitivity of about 0.5…
The angular momentum of molecular cloud cores plays an essential role in the star formation process. However, the time evolution of the angular momentum of molecular cloud cores is still unclear. In this paper, we perform three-dimensional simulations to investigate the time evolution of the angular momentum of molecular cloud cores formed through filament fragmentation. As a result, we find that most of the cores rotate perpendicular to the filament axis. The mean angular momentum of the cores changes by only around 30% during the initial stage of their formation process and then remains almo…
Formation of a Protostellar Multiple System via Rotational Fragmentation
State Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy and Technology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院上海天文台射电天文与技术重点实验室);Department of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo(东京大学理学部天文学系);Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian(哈佛史密松天体物理中心);Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile(智利大学天文学系);Chinese Academy of Sciences South America Center for Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院国家天文台拉美天文中心)
Triggering Collapse of the Presolar Dense Cloud Core and Injecting Short-Lived Radioisotopes with a Shock Wave. III. Rotating Three Dimensional Cloud Cores
Disc Fragmentation. III. The need for a new paradigm for formation of planets within close binary systems
IRAP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS(图卢兹大学 IRAP);LIRA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL(巴黎天文台 LIRA,巴黎文理研究大学);Institut für Astro-und Teilchenphysik, Universität Innsbruck(因斯布鲁克大学天体与粒子物理研究所);School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester(莱斯特大学物理与天文学院)
We present the evolution of rotational directions of circumstellar disks in a triple protostar system simulated from a turbulent molecular cloud core with no magnetic field. We find a new formation pathway of a counter-rotating circumstellar disk in such triple systems. The tertiary protostar forms via the circumbinary disk fragmentation and the initial rotational directions of all the three circumstellar disks are almost parallel to that of the orbital motion of the binary system. Their mutual gravito-hydrodynamical interaction for the subsequent $\sim10^4\thinspace\rm{yr}$ greatly disturbs t…
In the massive star-forming region IRAS 21078+5211, a highly fragmented cluster (0.1~pc in size) of molecular cores is observed, located at the density peak of an elongated (1~pc in size) molecular cloud. A small (1~km/s per 0.1~pc) LSR velocity (Vlsr) gradient is detected across the axis of the molecular cloud. Assuming we are observing a mass flow from the harboring cloud to the cluster, we derive a mass infall rate of about 10^{-4}~M_{sun}~yr^{-1}. The most massive cores (labeled 1, 2, and 3) are found at the center of the cluster, and these are the only ones that present a signature of pro…
Fragmentation of rotating gaseous systems via gravitational instability is believed to be a crucial mechanism in several astrophysical processes, such as formation of planets in protostellar discs, of molecular clouds in galactic discs, and of stars in molecular clouds. Gravitational instability is fairly well understood for infinitesimally thin discs. However, the thin-disc approximation is not justified in many cases, and it is of general interest to study the gravitational instability of rotating fluids with different degrees of rotation support and stratification. We derive dispersion rela…
We perform a linear analysis of the stability of isothermal, rotating, magnetic, self-gravitating sheets that are weakly ionized. The magnetic field and rotation axis are perpendicular to the sheet. We include a self-consistent treatment of thermal pressure, gravitational, rotational, and magnetic (pressure and tension) forces together with two nonideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects (Ohmic dissipation and ambipolar diffusion) that are treated together for their influence on the properties of gravitational instability for a rotating sheet-like cloud or disk. Our results show that there is a…