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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 832, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/40
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accretion, accretion disks; methods: numerical; stars: formation; stars: jets; stars: massive; stars: winds, outflows
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- German Research Foundation [KU 2849/3-1]
- German Academy of Science Leopoldina within the Leopoldina Fellowship Programme [LPDS 2011-5]
- University of Tokyo, Japan
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We perform two-dimensional axially symmetric radiation. hydrodynamic simulations to assess the impact of outflows and radiative force feedback from massive protostars by varying when the protostellar outflow starts, and. to determine. the ratio of ejection to accretion rates. and. the strength of the wide-angle disk wind component. The star-formation efficiency, i.e.,. the ratio of final stellar mass to initial core mass, is dominated by radiative forces and the ratio of outflow to accretion rates. Increasing this ratio has three effects.. First, the protostar grows slower with a lower luminosity at any given time, lowering radiative feedback. Second, bipolar cavities cleared by the outflow become. larger, further diminishing radiative feedback on disk and core scales. Third, the higher momentum outflow sweeps up more material from the collapsing envelope, decreasing the protostar's potential mass reservoir via entrainment. The star-formation efficiency varies with the ratio of ejection to accretion rates from 50% in the case of very weak outflows to as low as 20% for very strong outflows. At latitudes between the low-density bipolar cavity and the high-density accretion disk, wide-angle disk winds remove some of the gas, which otherwise would be part of the accretion flow onto the disk; varying the strength of these wide-angle disk winds, however, alters the final star-formation efficiency by only +/- 6%. For all cases, the opening angle of the bipolar outflow cavity remains below 20 degrees during early protostellar accretion phases, increasing rapidly up to 65 degrees at the onset of radiation pressure feedback.
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