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分子云中磁化细丝的宽度

The widths of magnetised filaments in molecular clouds

F. D. Priestley, A. P. Whitworth

摘要:

细丝是分子云的普遍特征,似乎在组装物质形成恒星的过程中起着关键作用。观察到主导细丝在$\sim 0.1$ pc附近具有相当窄的宽度范围,并且优先垂直于局部磁场的方向排列。我们以前认为,所观察到的细丝宽度可以解释,如果细丝形成的收敛,温和的超音速流,导致大规模的湍流运动在母体分子云。在这里,我们证明,引入一个磁场垂直于灯丝长轴不会大大改变这一结论,只要质量流量比是超临界的。通过这种机制形成的超临界磁化细丝的宽度分布的峰值略高的值,是略宽,比非磁化细丝,但仍然再现的宽度分布的基本属性来自远红外观测的分子云。相比之下,亚临界细丝的宽度分布具有根本不同的形状,并且通常具有比观察到的宽度大得多的宽度。亚临界和超临界细丝都与观察到的细丝宽度和细丝表面密度之间缺乏相关性一致。

英文摘要:

Filaments are an ubiquitous feature of molecular clouds, and appear to play a critical role in assembling the material to form stars. The dominant filaments are observed to have a rather narrow range of widths around $\sim 0.1$ pc, and to be preferentially aligned perpendicularly to the direction of the local magnetic field. We have previously argued that the observed filament widths can be explained if filaments are formed by converging, mildly supersonic flows, resulting from large-scale turbulent motions in the parent molecular cloud. Here we demonstrate that the introduction of a magnetic field perpendicular to the filament long axis does not greatly alter this conclusion, as long as the mass-to-flux ratio is supercritical. The distribution of widths for supercritical magnetised filaments formed via this mechanism is peaked at slightly higher values, and is slightly broader, than for non-magnetised filaments, but still reproduces the basic properties of the width distributions derived from far-infrared observations of molecular clouds. In contrast, subcritical filaments have width distributions with a fundamentally different shape, and typically have much larger widths than those observed. Both subcritical and supercritical filaments are consistent with the observed lack of correlation between filament widths and filament surface densities.

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