ON THE IMF IN A TRIGGERED STAR FORMATION CONTEXT

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Zhou, Tingtao [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Huang, Chelsea X. [1 ,2 ,4 ]
Lin, D. N. C. [1 ,2 ,5 ,6 ]
Gritschneder, Matthias [5 ,7 ]
Lau, Herbert [8 ]
机构
[1] Peking Univ, Kavli Inst Astron & Astrophys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[2] Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[3] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[4] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[5] Univ Calif, UCO Lick Observ, Mt Hamilton, CA USA
[6] Tsinghua Univ, Inst Adv Studies, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[7] Univ Observ Munich, Munich, Germany
[8] Univ Bonn, Argelander Inst, Bonn, Germany
关键词
ISM: clouds; ISM: individual objects (Pipe Nebula); ISM: structure; H II regions; methods: analytical; stars: formation; INITIAL MASS FUNCTION; PIPE NEBULA; GALACTIC STELLAR; SPHERICAL CLOUDS; CORE POPULATION; HOT GAS; EVAPORATION; EVOLUTION;
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10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/10
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a fundamental issue in the theory of star formation. It is generally fit with a composite power law. Some clues on the progenitors can be found in dense starless cores that have a core mass function (CMF) with a similar shape. In the low-mass end, these mass functions increase with mass, albeit the sample may be somewhat incomplete; in the high-mass end, the mass functions decrease with mass. There is an offset in the turn-over mass between the two mass distributions. The stellar mass for the IMF peak is lower than the corresponding core mass for the CMF peak in the Pipe Nebula by about a factor of three. Smaller offsets are found between the IMF and the CMFs in other nebulae. We suggest that the offset is likely induced during a starburst episode of global star formation which is triggered by the formation of a few O/B stars in the multi-phase media, which naturally emerged through the onset of thermal instability in the cloud-core formation process. We consider the scenario that the ignition of a few massive stars photoionizes the warm medium between the cores, increases the external pressure, reduces their Bonnor-Ebert mass, and triggers the collapse of some previously stable cores. We quantitatively reproduce the IMF in the low-mass end with the assumption of additional rotational fragmentation.
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