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关于核心和恒星的质量分离

On the mass segregation of cores and stars

Hayley L. Alcock, Richard J. Parker

摘要:

对年轻恒星形成区的前恒星/原恒星核心的观测表明,它们是质量分离的,即质量最大的核心集中在中心,而在同一恒星形成区(和较老的区域)的前主序星则不是。我们测试这种明显的矛盾是否可以解释为大质量的核心碎裂成恒星的质量低得多,从而洗出任何签名的质量分离的前主序星。虽然我们的碎裂模型可以重现恒星的初始质量函数,我们发现,由此产生的分布的前主序星的质量分离的程度甚至高于核心,因为大质量的核心仍然产生大质量的恒星,如果碎片的数量是合理的低(1和5之间)。因此,我们认为,核心被观察到质量分离而恒星没有的原因可能是由于恒星的动力学演化,这些恒星在形成后可以在恒星形成区移动很大的距离。

英文摘要:

Observations of pre-/proto-stellar cores in young star-forming regions show them to be mass segregated, i.e. the most massive cores are centrally concentrated, whereas pre-main sequence stars in the same star-forming regions (and older regions) are not. We test whether this apparent contradiction can be explained by the massive cores fragmenting into stars of much lower mass, thereby washing out any signature of mass segregation in pre-main sequence stars. Whilst our fragmentation model can reproduce the stellar initial mass function, we find that the resultant distribution of pre-main sequence stars is mass segregated to an even higher degree than that of the cores, because massive cores still produce massive stars if the number of fragments is reasonably low (between one and five). We therefore suggest that the reason cores are observed to be mass segregated and stars are not is likely due to dynamical evolution of the stars, which can move significant distances in star-forming regions after their formation.

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