Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-09-04
Astrophys.J. 560 (2001) L185-L188
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Four pages, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/324307
We present the first coherent dynamical study of the cloud fragmentation-phase, collapse and early stellar evolution of a solar mass star. We determine young star properties as the consequence of the parent cloud evolution. Mass, luminosity and effective temperature in the first million years of the proto-Sun result from gravitational fragmentation of a molecular cloud region that produces a cluster of prestellar clumps. We calculate the global dynamical behavior of the cloud using isothermal 3D hydrodynamics and follow the evolution of individual protostars in detail using a 1D radiation-fluid-dynamic system of equations that comprises a correct standard solar model solution, as a limiting case. We calculate the pre-main sequence (PMS) evolutionary tracks of a solar mass star in a dense stellar cluster environment and compare it to one that forms in isolation. Up to an age of 950.000 years differences in the accretion history lead to significantly different temperature and luminosity evolution. As accretion fades and the stars approach their final masses the two dynamic PMS tracks converge. After that the contraction of the quasi-hydrostatic stellar interiors dominate the overall stellar properties and proceed in very similar ways. Hence the position of a star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram becomes a function of age and mass only. However, our quantitative description of cloud fragmentation, star formation and early stellar evolution predicts substantial corrections to the classical, i.e. hydrostatic and initially fully convective models: At an age of 1 million years the proto-Sun is twice as bright and 500 Kelvin hotter than according to calculations that neglect the star formation process.
Klessen Ralf
Wuchterl Guenther
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