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无星核演化的分析模型I:恒质量情况

An analytical model for the evolution of starless cores I: The constant-mass case

Kate Pattle

摘要:

我们提出了一个分析模型的准静态演化的无星核心限制在一个恒定的外部压力,假设核心是等温的,并服从球对称的密度分布。我们的模型核心的发展,在绝热和等温的限制,假设拉森一样的湍流耗散的普卢默和高斯密度分布。我们将维里方程中的项的变化模拟为核心特征半径的函数,并确定核心是朝着维里平衡还是引力坍缩发展。在目前的研究中,我们忽略了核上的吸积。我们讨论了不同的行为预测的等温和绝热的情况下,并通过我们选择的指数的尺寸线宽的关系,并提出了一种手段参数化的磁能项的维里方程。我们对Pattle等人(2015)在蛇夫座L1688区域观察到的核心组在“维里平面”中的演化进行了建模。我们发现,并不是所有的维里约束和压力约束的核心将演变成为引力约束,与许多相反,收缩到维里平衡与周围环境,并找到一个缺乏引力主导的和维里未绑定的核心。我们假设在维里平面的这个象限中存在一个“无星核心沙漠”,这可能是由于核心最初形成为压力限制的物体。我们的结论是,一个维里约束和压力约束的核心不一定会演变成引力约束,因此不能被认为是星前的。一个核心只有在引力不稳定的情况下才能被明确地认为是星前的(坍缩形成一个独立的恒星系统)。

英文摘要:

We propose an analytical model for the quasistatic evolution of starless cores confined by a constant external pressure, assuming that cores are isothermal and obey a spherically-symmetric density distribution. We model core evolution for Plummer-like and Gaussian density distributions in the adiabatic and isothermal limits, assuming Larson-like dissipation of turbulence. We model the variation in the terms in the virial equation as a function of core characteristic radius, and determine whether cores are evolving toward virial equilibrium or gravitational collapse. We ignore accretion onto cores in the current study. We discuss the different behaviours predicted by the isothermal and adiabatic cases, and by our choice of index for the size-linewidth relation, and suggest a means of parameterising the magnetic energy term in the virial equation. We model the evolution of the set of cores observed by Pattle et al. (2015) in the L1688 region of Ophiuchus in the 'virial plane'. We find that not all virially-bound and pressure-confined cores will evolve to become gravitationally bound, with many instead contracting to virial equilibrium with their surroundings, and find an absence of gravitationally-dominated and virially-unbound cores. We hypothesise a 'starless core desert' in this quadrant of the virial plane, which may result from cores initially forming as pressure-confined objects. We conclude that a virially-bound and pressure-confined core will not necessarily evolve to become gravitationally bound, and thus cannot be considered prestellar. A core can only be definitively considered prestellar (collapsing to form an individual stellar system) if it is gravitationally unstable.

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