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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 607, 期 1, 页码 L39-L42出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/421464
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diffusion; ISM : clouds; ISM : kinematics and dynamics; ISM : magnetic fields; MHD; stars : formation
We extend our earlier work on ambipolar diffusion-induced formation of protostellar cores in isothermal sheetlike magnetic interstellar clouds by studying nonaxisymmetric collapse for the physically interesting regime of magnetically critical and supercritical model clouds (mu(0) greater than or equal to 1, where mu(0) is the initial mass-to-magnetic flux ratio in units of the critical value for gravitational collapse). Cores that form in model simulations are effectively triaxial, with shapes that are typically closer to being oblate rather than prolate. Infall velocities in the critical model (mu(0) = 1) are subsonic; in contrast, a supercritical model (mu(0) = 2) has extended supersonic infall that may be excluded by observations. For the magnetically critical model, ambipolar diffusion forms cores that are supercritical (mu(core) > 1) and embedded within subcritical envelopes (mu(env) < 1). Cores in our models have density profiles that eventually merge into a near- uniform background, which is suggestive of observed properties of cloud cores.
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