期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 703, 期 1, 页码 131-149出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/1/131
关键词
hydrodynamics; ISM: clouds; ISM: kinematics and dynamics; methods: numerical; radiative transfer; stars: formation; turbulence
资金
- US Department of Energy [B-542762, DE-AC52-07NA 27344]
- National Science Foundation [PHY05-51164, AST-0807739, AST-0606831]
- NASA, Spitzer Space Telescope Theoretical Research Program
- NSF San Diego Supercomputing Center through LRAC program [UCB267]
- National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, ERCAP [80325]
Forming stars emit a substantial amount of radiation into their natal environment. We use ORION, an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) three-dimensional gravito-radiation-hydrodyanics code, to simulate low-mass star formation in a turbulent molecular cloud. We compare the distributions of stellar masses, accretion rates, and temperatures in the cases with and without radiative transfer, and we demonstrate that radiative feedback has a profound effect on accretion, multiplicity, and mass by reducing the number of stars formed and the total rate at which gas turns into stars. We also show that once the star formation reaches a steady state, protostellar radiation is by far the dominant source of energy in the simulation, exceeding viscous dissipation and compressional heating by at least an order of magnitude. Calculations that omit radiative feedback from protstars significantly underestimate the gas temperature and the strength of this effect. Although heating from protostars is mainly confined to the protostellar cores, we find that it is sufficient to suppress disk fragmentation that would otherwise result in very low-mass companions or brown dwarfs. We demonstrate that the mean protostellar accretion rate increases with the final stellar mass so that the star formation time is only a weak function of mass.
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