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云-云碰撞形成大质量致密核心

Formation of Massive, Dense Cores by Cloud-Cloud Collisions

Ken Takahira, Kazuhiro Shima, Elizabeth J. Tasker, Asao Habe

摘要:

我们进行了亚秒差距($\sim$ 0.014 pc)尺度的两个理想化的湍流分子云(MC)的云-云碰撞的模拟,具有不同的质量范围内的$0.76 - 2.67 \times 10^4$ M $_{\odot}$和碰撞速度为5 $-$ 30 km/s。这些参数大于Takahira、Tasker和Habe(2014年)(论文I),在后者中,碰撞系统显示出部分气体弧形态,支持NANTEN对通过数值模拟表明是碰撞MC的物体的观测。密度大于$10^{-20}$ g cm $^{-3}$的气体团被确定为前星核,并通过模拟跟踪,以研究碰撞云质量和碰撞速度对所产生的核心人口的影响。我们的研究结果表明,较小的云的属性是云碰撞的结果更重要。在较慢的云-云碰撞($v \sim 5 $ km/s)中,形成核的质量函数可用指数$γ$ = -1.6的幂律关系近似,与MC观测结果符合得很好。较快的相对速度增加了碰撞早期形成的核的数量,缩短了激波区核的气体吸积阶段,从而抑制了核的生长。对于相同的碰撞云组合,弯曲点出现在核心质量函数的高质量部分,弯曲质点随碰撞速度的增加而减小。核心质量函数中比弯曲质点大的质量部分可以用幂律近似,其中$γ$ = -2.3,这与观测到的初始恒星质量函数中质量部分的幂指数非常相似。我们讨论了我们的研究结果在我们的银河系中的大质量恒星形成的含义。

英文摘要:

We performed sub-parsec ($\sim$ 0.014 pc) scale simulations of cloud-cloud collisions of two idealized turbulent molecular clouds (MCs) with different masses in the range of $0.76 - 2.67 \times 10^4$M$_{\odot}$ and with collision speeds of 5 $-$ 30 km/s. Those parameters are larger than Takahira, Tasker and Habe (2014) (paper I) in which the colliding system showed a partial gaseous arc morphology that supports the NANTEN observations of objects indicated to be colliding MCs by numerical simulations. Gas clumps with density greater than $10^{-20}$ g cm$^{-3}$ were identified as pre-stellar cores and tracked through the simulation to investigate the effect of mass of colliding clouds and collision speeds on the resulting core population. Our results demonstrate that smaller cloud property is more important for results of cloud cloud collisions. The mass function of formed cores can be approximated by a power law relation with index $γ$ = -1.6 in slower cloud cloud collisions ($v \sim 5 $ km/s), in good agreement with observation of MCs. A faster relative velocity increases the number of cores formed in the early stage of collisions and shortens gas accretion phase of cores in the shocked region, leading to suppression of core growth. The bending point appears in the high mass part of the core mass function and the bending point mass decreases with increasing of the collision velocity for the same combination of colliding clouds. The high mass part of the core mass function than the bending point mass can be approximated by a power law with $γ$ = -2.3 that is very similar to the power index of the massive part of the observed initial stellar mass function. We discuss implication of our results for the massive star formation in our Galaxy.

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