Protostellar discs formed from turbulent cores

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2009-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/0908.2443v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

10 pages, 8 figures, submitted

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We investigate the collapse and fragmentation of low-mass, trans-sonically turbulent prestellar cores, using SPH simulations. The initial conditions are slightly supercritical Bonnor-Ebert spheres, all with the same density profile, the same mass (M_O=6.1 Msun) and the same radius (R_O=17,000 AU), but having different initial turbulent velocity fields. Four hundred turbulent velocity fields have been generated, all scaled so that the mean Mach number is M=1. Then a subset of these, having a range of net angular momenta, j, has been evolved. The evolution of these turbulent cores is not strongly correlated with j. Instead it is moderated by the formation of filamentary structures due to converging turbulent flows. A high fraction (~ 82%) of the protostars forming from turbulent cores are attended by protostellar accretion discs, but only a very small fraction (~16%) of these discs is sufficiently cool and extended to develop non-linear gravitational instabilities and fragment.

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