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arXiv 2309.04532astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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分子云的全局结构:I. 随质量和恒星形成率变化的趋势

The Global Structure of Molecular Clouds: I. Trends with Mass and Star Formation Rate

Nia Imara, John C. Forbes

AI总结:

本文提出分子云大尺度三维圆柱体结构模型,发现高中心体密度云更紧凑且总质量更低,低质量云气体消耗时间更短,表明存在决定恒星形成时间尺度的普遍结构。

摘要:

我们提出了一个关于分子云大尺度全局三维结构的模型。受云在面密度图中形态外观的启发,我们将云建模为圆柱体,旨在反推气体体密度分布的信息及其与恒星形成的关系。我们通过将该模型应用于附近云样本的面密度图来测试它,发现拟合每个观测到的径向面密度分布的解非常好。我们最显著的发现是,具有较高中心体密度的云更紧凑,且总质量更低。这些低质量云往往具有更短的气体消耗时间,无论我们考虑其总质量还是致密质量。我们的分析使我们得出结论,圆柱形云可以通过一种普遍结构来表征,该结构决定了它们形成恒星的时间尺度。

英文摘要:

We introduce a model for the large-scale, global 3D structure of molecular clouds. Motivated by the morphological appearance of clouds in surface density maps, we model clouds as cylinders, with the aim of backing out information about the volume density distribution of gas and its relationship to star formation. We test our model by applying it to surface density maps for a sample of nearby clouds and find solutions that fit each of the observed radial surface density profiles remarkably well. Our most salient findings are that clouds with higher central volume densities are more compact and also have lower total mass. These same lower-mass clouds tend to have shorter gas depletion times, regardless of whether we consider their total mass or dense mass. Our analyses lead us to conclude that cylindrical clouds can be characterized by a universal structure that sets the timescale on which they form stars.

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