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Musca分子云:完美的“细丝”仍然是一片

The Musca molecular cloud: The perfect "filament" is still a sheet

A. Tritsis, F. Bouzelou, R. Skalidis, K. Tassis, T. Enßlin, G. Edenhofer

摘要:

Musca分子云的真实三维(3D)形态是最近受到极大关注的一个话题。鉴于Musca没有表现出强烈的恒星形成活动,揭示其形状也有可能揭示有关决定分子云中第一代恒星形成的物理学的关键信息。在这里,我们重新审视苍蝇座的形状,我们提出了一个全面的证据指向一个形状,是沿着视线的维度:(a)三维地图的差异消光;(b)新的非本地热力学平衡辐射转移模拟CO旋转过渡从片状,磁主导模拟云;(c)有效/临界密度分析现有的CO观测;(d)从理论上的恒星形成角度来看,行星结构会产生的间接后果。我们的结论是,充分收集的观测证据强烈表明,苍蝇有一个片状的几何形状。

英文摘要:

The true 3-dimensional (3D) morphology of the Musca molecular cloud is a topic that has received significant attention lately. Given that Musca does not exhibit intense star-formation activity, unveiling its shape has the potential of also revealing crucial information regarding the physics that dictates the formation of the first generation of stars within molecular clouds. Here, we revisit the shape of Musca and we present a comprehensive array of evidence pointing towards a shape that is extended along the line-of-sight dimension: (a) 3D maps of differential extinction; (b) new non-local thermodynamic equilibrium radiative transfer simulations of CO rotational transitions from a sheet-like, magnetically-dominated simulated cloud; (c) an effective/critical density analysis of available CO observations; (d) indirect consequences that a filamentary structure would have had, from a theoretical star-formation perspective. We conclude that the full collection of observational evidence strongly suggests that Musca has a sheet-like geometry.

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