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内落候选源在分子云团块中的空间分布研究

Spatial Distribution of Infall Candidates in Molecular Clumps

  • 摘要: 恒星形成于致密分子云核的引力坍缩. 研究这种坍缩运动更容易发生在分子云团块的具体位置将有助于了解恒星在分子云团块中各个部分的形成情况, 为研究恒星形成提供更多的信息. 利用银河画卷项目提供的CO数据, 结合通过CO谱线所证认的3533个内落候选源的基本信息, 去寻找这些内落候选源所属的分子云团块, 并探讨内落候选源在分子云团块中的分布. 通过比较在3维球体中按一定数密度撒点所获得的分布与内落候选源在分子云团块中真实分布的差异, 发现内落候选源在分子云团块中的分布数密度随归一化中心距近似呈高斯衰减形式, 即内落源的数密度n与归一化中心距r的关系近似为 n \propto \rm e^-ar^2 , 其中a为衰减系数. 在13CO团块中, 最佳拟合的数密度函数为 n \propto \rm e^-4.5r^2 ; 而在C18O团块中, 最佳拟合的数密度函数为 n \propto \rm e^-3.2r^2 . 结果表明内落更易发生在分子云团块的中心部位, 而较少发生在团块的边缘位置.

     

    Abstract: Stars form through the gravitational collapse of dense molecular cloud cores. Studying where this collapse motion is more likely to occur in molecular cloud clumps will help to understand the formation of stars in various parts of molecular clumps and provide more information for studying star formation. We leverage CO data from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project, along with basic information on 3533 infall candidates identified via CO spectral lines, to search for the molecular cloud clumps associated with these candidates and investigate the distribution of infall candidates within them. By comparing the distributions obtained by scattering points at a series of certain number densities in a 3D sphere with the real distribution of infall candidates in molecular cloud clumps, it is founded that the distribution number density of infall candidates within molecular cloud clumps approximately exhibits Gaussian decay with normalized center distance. Specifically, the relationship between the number density n of infall candidates and their normalized center distance r is n \propto \rm e^-ar^2 , where a is the decay coefficient. In 13CO clumps, the best-fitting number density function is n \propto \rm e^-4.5r^2 , while in C18O clumps, it is n \propto \rm e^-3.2r^2 . The results indicate that infall is more likely to occur in the center of molecular cloud clumps, and less likely to occur at the edges of the clumps.

     

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