This paper adopts an inertia-centric evolutionary model to study the excitation mechanism of new gravito-electrostatic eigenmode structures in a one-dimensional(1-D) planar self-gravitating dust molecular cloud(DMC...This paper adopts an inertia-centric evolutionary model to study the excitation mechanism of new gravito-electrostatic eigenmode structures in a one-dimensional(1-D) planar self-gravitating dust molecular cloud(DMC) on the Jeans scale.A quasi-neutral multi-fluid consisting of warm electrons,warm ions,neutral gas and identical inertial cold dust grains with partial ionization is considered.The grain-charge is assumed not to vary at the fluctuation evolution time scale.The neutral gas particles form the background,which is weakly coupled with the collapsing grainy plasma mass.The gravitational decoupling of the background neutral particles is justifiable for a higher inertial mass of the grains with higher neutral population density so that the Jeans mode frequency becomes reasonably large.Its physical basis is the Jeans assumption of a self-gravitating uniform medium adopted for fiducially analytical simplification by neglecting the zero-order field.So,the equilibrium is justifiably treated initially as "homogeneous".The efficacious inertial role of the thermal species amidst weak collisions of the neutral-charged grains is taken into account.A standard multiscale technique over the gravito-electrostatic equilibrium yields a unique pair of Korteweg-de Vries(KdV) equations.It is integrated numerically by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method with multi-parameter variation for exact shape analyses.Interestingly,the model is conducive for the propagation of new conservative solitary spectral patterns.Their basic physics,parametric features and unique characteristics are discussed.The results go qualitatively in good correspondence with the earlier observations made by others.Tentative applications relevant to space and astrophysical environments are concisely highlighted.展开更多
Understanding how stars form in molecular clouds is one of the ongoing research areas in astrophysics. Star formation is the fundamental process to which our current understanding remains incomplete due to the complex...Understanding how stars form in molecular clouds is one of the ongoing research areas in astrophysics. Star formation is the fundamental process to which our current understanding remains incomplete due to the complexity of the physics that drives their formation within molecular clouds. In this article theoretical modelling of the lowest possible mass of the cloud needed for collapse and the core accretion rate has been presented for the molecular cloud collapsing under its gravity. In many of previous studies the critical mass of star forming cloud under its gravity has been modelled using kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy. However, we test the effect of thermodynamic efficiency factor together with other physical processes in describing the critical mass, and controlling or triggering the rate of mass falling onto the central core. Assuming that, the ratio of radiation luminosity to gravitational energy released per unit time of the collapsing MC is less than unity. Following this conceptual framework we have formulated the critical mass and the core accretion rate of the self-gravitating molecular cloud.展开更多
In this paper, we present the critical mass of magnetized, turbulent and rotating star-forming molecular cloud core (MCc) in the presence of magnetic tension. The critical mass of star-forming magnetized cloud is infl...In this paper, we present the critical mass of magnetized, turbulent and rotating star-forming molecular cloud core (MCc) in the presence of magnetic tension. The critical mass of star-forming magnetized cloud is influenced by the magnetic tension, magnetic pressure and other pressures. Applying the method of theoretical modelling by taking into account the basic equations and assumptions, we formulate the critical mass of magnetized MCc in different cases. Accordingly, the minimum critical masses we find in both cases are different. Energy due to magnetic tension significantly triggers the collapse at relatively larger radius of the core. The model shows that when the initial radius of the parent cloud (Ro) is larger than that of collapsing core radius (Rcore) the magnetic tension also has the larger radius of curvature, so it plays a significant role in supporting gravity to collapse the core. The results indicate gravity without magnetic tension may not overcome magnetic pressure, turbulence pressure and pressure due to rotation. This shows the critical mass of MCc for the collapse depends on the tension force that magnetic field lines apply on the envelope. We conclude that if there is magnetic pressure in star-forming MCc, there is also unavoidable magnetic tension, which triggers the collapse of the core. If there is no magnetic tension, the magnetized MCc needs relatively larger mass and higher density within the small size to collapse.展开更多
13CO (J = 1 ? 0) emission of massive star forming region including 15 ultracompact and 4 compact HII regions in Galactic plane was mapped with the 13.7 m millimeter wave telescope of Purple Mountain Observatory. The p...13CO (J = 1 ? 0) emission of massive star forming region including 15 ultracompact and 4 compact HII regions in Galactic plane was mapped with the 13.7 m millimeter wave telescope of Purple Mountain Observatory. The present observations provide the first complete structure of the clouds in 13CO with a higher spatial resolution and a wide-field coverage of 28′ x 45′. Combined with the images of far-infrared emission and dust color temperature obtained from ISSA, various possible dynarnical connections between the compact HII regions and associated clouds were found. We presente some reasons to explain the formation of new dense cold core and molecular emission cavity in the massive star formation and early evolution. The luminosities of excitation stars for all HI1 regions and the main parameters of associated clouds are also derived. The results show that the newborn stars’ luminosities are correlated with the13CO column densities, masses (in 55″beam) and 13CO velocity widths obviously.展开更多
Stars are born in dense cores of molecular clouds. The core mass function (CMF), which is the mass distribution of dense cores, is important for understanding the stellar initial mass function (IMF). We obtained ...Stars are born in dense cores of molecular clouds. The core mass function (CMF), which is the mass distribution of dense cores, is important for understanding the stellar initial mass function (IMF). We obtained 350μm dust continuum data using the SHARC-II camera at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) telescope. A 350μm map covering 0.25 deg2 of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud was created by mosaicing 56 separate scans. The CSO telescope had an angular resolution of 9", corresponding to 1.2 ×103 AU at the distance of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud (131 pc). The data was reduced using the Comprehensive Reduction Utility for SHARC-II (CRUSH). The flux density map was analyzed using the GaussClumps algorithm, within which 75 cores has been identified. We used the Spitzer c2d catalogs to separate the cores into 63 starless cores and 12 protostellar cores. By locating Jeans instabilities, 55 prestellar cores (a subcategory of starless cores) were also identified. The excitation temperatures, which were derived from FCRAO 12CO data, help to improve the accuracy of the masses of the cores. We adopted a Monte Carlo approach to analyze the CMF with two types of functional forms; power law and log-normal. The whole and prestellar CMF are both well fitted by a log-normal distribution, with p = -1. 18 ±0.10, σ = 0.58 ± 0.05 and μ= 1.40 + 0.10, σ= 0.50 + 0.05 respectively. This finding suggests that turbulence influences the evolution of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud.展开更多
Using the newly installed SIS receiving system on the 13.7 m telescope at Qinghai Station of PMO, United Radio Astronomy of CAS, CO isotope 13 CO J=1-0 and C18 O J=1-0 lines were observed for thr ee sources S241, S39...Using the newly installed SIS receiving system on the 13.7 m telescope at Qinghai Station of PMO, United Radio Astronomy of CAS, CO isotope 13 CO J=1-0 and C18 O J=1-0 lines were observed for thr ee sources S241, S39 and ON3. Results show that the three sources have massive cor es, of which the size is ~2-5 pc, masses are ~103-104 M⊙. The wid t hs of lines are also larger than those in low mass cores. And high velocity char acteristics were observed for all the sources. The V LSR distribution p resents rotation of the core in ON3. And all the three cores contain deeply embe dded forming massive stars. The young stellar objects in S241 and ON3 seem to be moving away from their birth sites.展开更多
With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the research team led by Prof.Shen Zhiqiang(沈志强)at the Division of Radio Astronomy Science and Technology,Sha...With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the research team led by Prof.Shen Zhiqiang(沈志强)at the Division of Radio Astronomy Science and Technology,Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,Chinese Academy of Sciences,discovered a new dense molecular cloud rich in long carbon-chain molecules,which was published in Astrophysical展开更多
Cloud electrification is one of the oldest unresolved puzzles in the atmospheric sciences. Though many mechanisms for charge separation in clouds have been proposed, a quantitative understanding of their respective co...Cloud electrification is one of the oldest unresolved puzzles in the atmospheric sciences. Though many mechanisms for charge separation in clouds have been proposed, a quantitative understanding of their respective contribution in a given meteorological situation is lacking. Here we suggest and analyze a hitherto little discussed process. A qualitative picture at the molecular level of the charge separation mechanism of lightning in a thundercloud is proposed. It is based on two key physical/chemical natural phenomena, namely, internal charge separation of the atmospheric impurities/aerosols inside an atmospheric water cluster/droplet/ice particle and the existence of liquid water layers on rimers (graupels and hailstones) forming a layer of dipoles with H<sup>+</sup> pointing out from the air-water interface. Charge separation is achieved through strong collisions among ice particles and water droplets with the rimers in the turbulence of the thundercloud. This work would have significant contribution to cloud electrification and lightning formation.展开更多
基金The financial support from the Department of Science and Technology(DST)of New Delhi,Government of India,extended through the SERB Fast Track Project(Grant No.SR/FTP/PS021/2011)
文摘This paper adopts an inertia-centric evolutionary model to study the excitation mechanism of new gravito-electrostatic eigenmode structures in a one-dimensional(1-D) planar self-gravitating dust molecular cloud(DMC) on the Jeans scale.A quasi-neutral multi-fluid consisting of warm electrons,warm ions,neutral gas and identical inertial cold dust grains with partial ionization is considered.The grain-charge is assumed not to vary at the fluctuation evolution time scale.The neutral gas particles form the background,which is weakly coupled with the collapsing grainy plasma mass.The gravitational decoupling of the background neutral particles is justifiable for a higher inertial mass of the grains with higher neutral population density so that the Jeans mode frequency becomes reasonably large.Its physical basis is the Jeans assumption of a self-gravitating uniform medium adopted for fiducially analytical simplification by neglecting the zero-order field.So,the equilibrium is justifiably treated initially as "homogeneous".The efficacious inertial role of the thermal species amidst weak collisions of the neutral-charged grains is taken into account.A standard multiscale technique over the gravito-electrostatic equilibrium yields a unique pair of Korteweg-de Vries(KdV) equations.It is integrated numerically by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method with multi-parameter variation for exact shape analyses.Interestingly,the model is conducive for the propagation of new conservative solitary spectral patterns.Their basic physics,parametric features and unique characteristics are discussed.The results go qualitatively in good correspondence with the earlier observations made by others.Tentative applications relevant to space and astrophysical environments are concisely highlighted.
文摘Understanding how stars form in molecular clouds is one of the ongoing research areas in astrophysics. Star formation is the fundamental process to which our current understanding remains incomplete due to the complexity of the physics that drives their formation within molecular clouds. In this article theoretical modelling of the lowest possible mass of the cloud needed for collapse and the core accretion rate has been presented for the molecular cloud collapsing under its gravity. In many of previous studies the critical mass of star forming cloud under its gravity has been modelled using kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy. However, we test the effect of thermodynamic efficiency factor together with other physical processes in describing the critical mass, and controlling or triggering the rate of mass falling onto the central core. Assuming that, the ratio of radiation luminosity to gravitational energy released per unit time of the collapsing MC is less than unity. Following this conceptual framework we have formulated the critical mass and the core accretion rate of the self-gravitating molecular cloud.
文摘In this paper, we present the critical mass of magnetized, turbulent and rotating star-forming molecular cloud core (MCc) in the presence of magnetic tension. The critical mass of star-forming magnetized cloud is influenced by the magnetic tension, magnetic pressure and other pressures. Applying the method of theoretical modelling by taking into account the basic equations and assumptions, we formulate the critical mass of magnetized MCc in different cases. Accordingly, the minimum critical masses we find in both cases are different. Energy due to magnetic tension significantly triggers the collapse at relatively larger radius of the core. The model shows that when the initial radius of the parent cloud (Ro) is larger than that of collapsing core radius (Rcore) the magnetic tension also has the larger radius of curvature, so it plays a significant role in supporting gravity to collapse the core. The results indicate gravity without magnetic tension may not overcome magnetic pressure, turbulence pressure and pressure due to rotation. This shows the critical mass of MCc for the collapse depends on the tension force that magnetic field lines apply on the envelope. We conclude that if there is magnetic pressure in star-forming MCc, there is also unavoidable magnetic tension, which triggers the collapse of the core. If there is no magnetic tension, the magnetized MCc needs relatively larger mass and higher density within the small size to collapse.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19873003) United Laboratory of National Radio Astronomy.
文摘13CO (J = 1 ? 0) emission of massive star forming region including 15 ultracompact and 4 compact HII regions in Galactic plane was mapped with the 13.7 m millimeter wave telescope of Purple Mountain Observatory. The present observations provide the first complete structure of the clouds in 13CO with a higher spatial resolution and a wide-field coverage of 28′ x 45′. Combined with the images of far-infrared emission and dust color temperature obtained from ISSA, various possible dynarnical connections between the compact HII regions and associated clouds were found. We presente some reasons to explain the formation of new dense cold core and molecular emission cavity in the massive star formation and early evolution. The luminosities of excitation stars for all HI1 regions and the main parameters of associated clouds are also derived. The results show that the newborn stars’ luminosities are correlated with the13CO column densities, masses (in 55″beam) and 13CO velocity widths obviously.
基金by the California Institute of Technology under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (Grant No. AST0838261)supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB821800)+2 种基金National Aeronautics and Space Administration Undergraduate Student Research Program of USANational Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11373038 and 11163002)Graduate Innovative Fund of Gui Zhou University (Grant Nos. 2013024)
文摘Stars are born in dense cores of molecular clouds. The core mass function (CMF), which is the mass distribution of dense cores, is important for understanding the stellar initial mass function (IMF). We obtained 350μm dust continuum data using the SHARC-II camera at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) telescope. A 350μm map covering 0.25 deg2 of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud was created by mosaicing 56 separate scans. The CSO telescope had an angular resolution of 9", corresponding to 1.2 ×103 AU at the distance of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud (131 pc). The data was reduced using the Comprehensive Reduction Utility for SHARC-II (CRUSH). The flux density map was analyzed using the GaussClumps algorithm, within which 75 cores has been identified. We used the Spitzer c2d catalogs to separate the cores into 63 starless cores and 12 protostellar cores. By locating Jeans instabilities, 55 prestellar cores (a subcategory of starless cores) were also identified. The excitation temperatures, which were derived from FCRAO 12CO data, help to improve the accuracy of the masses of the cores. We adopted a Monte Carlo approach to analyze the CMF with two types of functional forms; power law and log-normal. The whole and prestellar CMF are both well fitted by a log-normal distribution, with p = -1. 18 ±0.10, σ = 0.58 ± 0.05 and μ= 1.40 + 0.10, σ= 0.50 + 0.05 respectively. This finding suggests that turbulence influences the evolution of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19773002) the Basic Science Grant, the National Key Basic Research Science Foundation (Grant No. 199907540) United Radio Lab of AC.
文摘Using the newly installed SIS receiving system on the 13.7 m telescope at Qinghai Station of PMO, United Radio Astronomy of CAS, CO isotope 13 CO J=1-0 and C18 O J=1-0 lines were observed for thr ee sources S241, S39 and ON3. Results show that the three sources have massive cor es, of which the size is ~2-5 pc, masses are ~103-104 M⊙. The wid t hs of lines are also larger than those in low mass cores. And high velocity char acteristics were observed for all the sources. The V LSR distribution p resents rotation of the core in ON3. And all the three cores contain deeply embe dded forming massive stars. The young stellar objects in S241 and ON3 seem to be moving away from their birth sites.
文摘With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the research team led by Prof.Shen Zhiqiang(沈志强)at the Division of Radio Astronomy Science and Technology,Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,Chinese Academy of Sciences,discovered a new dense molecular cloud rich in long carbon-chain molecules,which was published in Astrophysical
文摘Cloud electrification is one of the oldest unresolved puzzles in the atmospheric sciences. Though many mechanisms for charge separation in clouds have been proposed, a quantitative understanding of their respective contribution in a given meteorological situation is lacking. Here we suggest and analyze a hitherto little discussed process. A qualitative picture at the molecular level of the charge separation mechanism of lightning in a thundercloud is proposed. It is based on two key physical/chemical natural phenomena, namely, internal charge separation of the atmospheric impurities/aerosols inside an atmospheric water cluster/droplet/ice particle and the existence of liquid water layers on rimers (graupels and hailstones) forming a layer of dipoles with H<sup>+</sup> pointing out from the air-water interface. Charge separation is achieved through strong collisions among ice particles and water droplets with the rimers in the turbulence of the thundercloud. This work would have significant contribution to cloud electrification and lightning formation.