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arXiv 2008.04453astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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从巨大分子云形成星协和星团的模型

A model for the formation of stellar associations and clusters from giant molecular clouds

Michael Y. Grudić, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Philip F. Hopkins, Xiangcheng Ma, Eliot Quataert, Michael Boylan-Kolchin

摘要:

我们提出了一个大套件的MHD模拟湍流,恒星形成的巨分子云(GMC)与恒星反馈,扩展以前的工作,模拟10个不同的随机实现的云质量和大小的参数空间中的每个点。研究发现,一旦星云由于恒星反馈而消散,自引力星团和未束缚恒星通常都会保留下来,它们都是由相同的亚结构恒星密度连续体产生的。分层团簇形成方案。出生在引力约束星团的恒星比例与恒星反馈所设定的整体云恒星形成效率有关,但由于恒星形成气体流的小尺度细节的随机变化而具有显着的分散性。我们使用我们的数值计算结果来校准模型映射到他们形成的星团人口的自引力GMCs的整体属性(质量,大小和金属丰度),表示在统计上的云级分布。从观测到的M83中的GMC星表合成星团星表,我们发现,该模型预测的初始星团质量和大小与观测结果吻合良好,只使用标准的IMF和恒星演化模型作为反馈的输入。在我们的模型中,引力与恒星反馈的强度之比是设定星团质量的关键参数,在各种反馈通道中,直接恒星辐射(光子动量和光电离)在GMC尺度上是最重要的。

英文摘要:

We present a large suite of MHD simulations of turbulent, star-forming giant molecular clouds(GMCs) with stellar feedback, extending previous work by simulating 10 different random realizations for each point in the parameter space of cloud mass and size. It is found that oncethe clouds disperse due to stellar feedback, both self-gravitating star clusters and unbound stars generally remain, which arise from the same underlying continuum of substructured stellar density, ie. the hierarchical cluster formation scenario. The fraction of stars that are born within gravitationally-bound star clusters is related to the overall cloud star formation efficiency set by stellar feedback, but has significant scatter due to stochastic variations in the small-scale details of the star-forming gas flow. We use our numerical results to calibrate a model for mapping the bulk properties (mass, size, and metallicity) of self-gravitating GMCs onto the star cluster populations they form, expressed statistically in terms of cloud-level distributions. Synthesizing cluster catalogues from an observed GMC catalogue in M83, we find that this model predicts initial star cluster masses and sizes that are in good agreement with observations, using only standard IMF and stellar evolution models as inputs for feedback. Within our model, the ratio of the strength of gravity to stellar feedback is the key parameter setting the masses of star clusters, and of the various feedback channels direct stellar radiation(photon momentum and photoionization) is the most important on GMC scales.

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