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关于赫歇尔细丝的典型宽度

On the typical width of Herschel filaments

Ph. André, P. Palmeirim, D. Arzoumanian

摘要:

赫歇尔的研究表明,附近(d < 500 pc)的分子丝有一个典型的半功率宽度约为0.1 pc,但这一发现受到质疑,因为测量的宽度往往随着距离的增加而增加。在这里,我们重新审视测量的细丝宽度的距离或等效的空间分辨率的依赖关系,在努力确定附近的分子细丝是否有一个特征的半功率宽度,或者这是否是一个工件的有限分辨率的赫歇尔数据。我们在金牛座的B211/213灯丝上进行收敛测试,通过多次降低Herschel数据的分辨率,并从所得的列密度分布重新估计灯丝宽度。我们还比较了从赫歇尔古尔德带调查中测得的金牛座灯丝和其他灯丝的宽度与具有各种类型的简单,理想化的列密度分布的合成灯丝的宽度。我们发现,所测得的细丝宽度略有增加的空间分辨率和/或距离的细丝增加。然而,这种趋势完全符合对密度分布类似于Plummer的细丝的简单束卷积的预期,并且在大半径处具有约0.08-0.1 pc的固有半功率直径和1.5 < p < 2.5的对数斜率,如在包括Taurus细丝的许多情况下所观察到的。由于背景噪声波动的存在,从望远镜光束测量的宽度的反卷积很快变得不准确。我们的结论是,典型的半功率灯丝宽度~0.1 pc测量与赫歇尔在附近的云最有可能反映了一个真正的共同尺度的存在下,在冷星际介质的对流结构,至少在太阳附近。我们认为,这一共同尺度可能对应于分子云中的磁化湍流相关长度。

英文摘要:

Herschel studies suggest that nearby (d < 500 pc) molecular filaments have a typical half-power width ~0.1pc, but this finding has been questioned on the ground that the measured widths tend to increase with distance. Here we revisit the dependence of measured filament widths on distance or equivalently spatial resolution, in an effort to determine whether nearby molecular filaments have a characteristic half-power width or whether this is an artifact of the finite resolution of the Herschel data. We perform a convergence test on the B211/213 filament in Taurus, by degrading the resolution of the Herschel data several times and re-estimating the filament width from the resulting column density profiles. We also compare the widths measured for the Taurus filament and other filaments from the Herschel Gould Belt survey to those found for synthetic filaments with various types of simple, idealized column density profiles. We find that the measured filament widths do increase slightly as the spatial resolution worsens and/or the distance to the filaments increases. However, this trend is entirely consistent with what is expected from simple beam convolution for filaments with density profiles that are Plummer-like and have intrinsic half-power diameters ~0.08-0.1 pc and logarithmic slopes 1.5 < p < 2.5 at large radii, as observed in many cases including the Taurus filament. Due to the presence of background noise fluctuations, deconvolution of the measured widths from the telescope beam quickly becomes inaccurate. We conclude that the typical half-power filament width ~0.1 pc measured with Herschel in nearby clouds most likely reflects the presence of a true common scale in the filamentary structure of the cold interstellar medium, at least in the solar neighborhood. We suggest that this common scale may correspond to the magnetized turbulent correlation length in molecular clouds.

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