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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 693, Issue 1, Pages 914-921Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/693/1/914
Keywords
hydrodynamics; ISM: clouds; methods: data analysis; methods: numerical; stars: formation; turbulence
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- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0807739] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this study, we investigate the shapes of starless and protostellar cores using hydrodynamic, self-gravitating adaptive mesh refinement simulations of turbulent molecular clouds. We simulate observations of these cores in dust emission, including realistic noise and telescope resolution, and compare to the observed core shapes measured in Orion by Nutter & Ward-Thompson (2007). The simulations and the observations have generally high statistical similarity, with particularly good agreement between simulations and Orion B. Although protostellar cores tend to have semi-major axis to semi-minor axis ratios closer to one, the distribution of axis ratios for starless and protostellar cores is not significantly different for either the actual observations of Orion or the simulated observations. Because of the high level of agreement between the non-magnetic hydrodynamic simulations and observation, contrary to a number of previous authors, one cannot infer the presence of magnetic fields from core shape distributions.
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