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湍流介质中的丝状碎裂

Filamentary fragmentation in a turbulent medium

S. D. Clarke, A. P. Whitworth, A. Duarte-Cabral, D. A. Hubber

摘要:

我们提出了平滑粒子流体动力学模拟的结果调查的演变和分裂的细丝是从湍流介质中吸积。我们表明,湍流的存在下,以及由此产生的不均匀性的吸积流,在破碎过程中发挥了重要作用。经历弱湍流吸积流碎片的细丝,以两层分层的方式,类似于猎户座整体形细丝中看到的碎片模式。增加湍流速度场中的能量导致细丝内更多的子结构,并且可以看到从重力主导的碎裂向重力主导的碎裂的转变。在细丝中形成的子结构是细长的,大致平行于细丝的纵轴,类似于金牛座观测中看到的纤维,并表明磨损和碎片的情况是产生纤维的可能机制。我们表明,这些纤维状结构的形成是联系在一起的涡度的速度场内的细丝和细丝的吸积从一个不均匀的介质。此外,我们发现,吸积是能够驱动和维持大致音速水平的湍流内的细丝,但不能防止径向崩溃,一旦细丝成为超临界。然而,含有纤维状结构的超临界长丝不会径向塌陷,这表明纤维长丝一旦达到临界线密度就不一定会变得径向不稳定。

英文摘要:

We present the results of smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations investigating the evolution and fragmentation of filaments that are accreting from a turbulent medium. We show that the presence of turbulence, and the resulting inhomogeneities in the accretion flow, play a significant role in the fragmentation process. Filaments which experience a weakly turbulent accretion flow fragment in a two-tier hierarchical fashion, similar to the fragmentation pattern seen in the Orion Integral Shaped Filament. Increasing the energy in the turbulent velocity field results in more sub-structure within the filaments, and one sees a shift from gravity-dominated fragmentation to turbulence-dominated fragmentation. The sub-structure formed in the filaments is elongated and roughly parallel to the longitudinal axis of the filament, similar to the fibres seen in observations of Taurus, and suggests that the fray and fragment scenario is a possible mechanism for the production of fibres. We show that the formation of these fibre-like structures is linked to the vorticity of the velocity field inside the filament and the filament's accretion from an inhomogeneous medium. Moreover, we find that accretion is able to drive and sustain roughly sonic levels of turbulence inside the filaments, but is not able to prevent radial collapse once the filaments become supercritical. However, the supercritical filaments which contain fibre-like structures do not collapse radially, suggesting that fibrous filaments may not necessarily become radially unstable once they reach the critical line-density.

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