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构建分子云群体:云合并的作用

Building the molecular cloud population: the role of cloud mergers

Maya S. Skarbinski, Sarah M. R. Jeffreson, Alyssa A. Goodman

摘要:

我们研究的物理驱动程序的缓慢分子云合并模拟银河系的星系在移动网格代码Arepo,并确定这些合并的质量分布和星系云人口的恒星形成效率的影响。我们发现,83%的合并发生在相对速度低于5 km/s的情况下,并且与大规模的原子气体流动有关,主要由(1)超新星爆炸引起的热电离气体膨胀气泡和(2)星系旋转驱动。这些合并的主要作用是将分子质量聚集成更高质量的云:合并占质量M > 2 x 10^6 Msun的云所含分子质量的50%以上。这些高质量的云有更高的密度,内部速度分散和瞬时恒星形成效率比他们的未合并,低质量的前体。因此,在我们模拟的星系中,平均瞬时恒星形成效率,其合并率仅为每百万年1%的云,比不包含合并的类似云群高出25%。

英文摘要:

We study the physical drivers of slow molecular cloud mergers within a simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy in the moving-mesh code Arepo, and determine the influence of these mergers on the mass distribution and star formation efficiency of the galactic cloud population. We find that 83 per cent of these mergers occur at a relative velocity below 5 km/s, and are associated with large-scale atomic gas flows, driven primarily by (1) expanding bubbles of hot, ionised gas caused by supernova explosions and (2) galactic rotation. The major effect of these mergers is to aggregate molecular mass into higher-mass clouds: mergers account for over 50 per cent of the molecular mass contained in clouds of mass M > 2 x 10^6 Msun. These high-mass clouds have higher densities, internal velocity dispersions and instantaneous star formation efficiencies than their unmerged, lower-mass precursors. As such, the mean instantaneous star formation efficiency in our simulated galaxy, with its merger rate of just 1 per cent of clouds per Myr, is 25 per cent higher than in a similar population of clouds containing no mergers.

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