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Title:
Star formation in molecular cores. III. The effect of the turbulent power spectrum
Authors:
Goodwin, S. P.; Whitworth, A. P.; Ward-Thompson, D.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3YB, Wales, UK ), AB(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3YB, Wales, UK), AC(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3YB, Wales, UK)
Publication:
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 452, Issue 2, June III 2006, pp.487-492 (A&A Homepage)
Publication Date:
06/2006
Origin:
EDP Sciences
Astronomy Keywords:
stars: formation
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361:20054026
Bibliographic Code:
2006A&A...452..487G

Abstract

We investigate the effect of the turbulent power spectrum (P(k) propto k-n, with n = 3, 4 or 5) on the fragmentation of low-mass cores, by means of SPH simulations. We adopt initial density profiles and low levels of turbulence based on observation, and for each n-value we conduct an ensemble of simulations with different initial seeds for the turbulent velocity field, so as to obtain reasonable statistics. We find that when power is concentrated at larger scales (i.e. for larger n), more protostellar objects form and there is a higher proportion of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. This is in direct contrast with the recent results of Delgado Donate et al., presumably because they adopted much higher levels of turbulence.

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