How Protostellar Outflows Help Massive Stars Form
天体物理学
2009-11-10 v1
摘要
We consider the effects of an outflow on radiation escaping from the infalling envelope around a massive protostar. Using numerical radiative transfer calculations, we show that outflows with properties comparable to those observed around massive stars lead to significant anisotropy in the stellar radiation field, which greatly reduces the radiation pressure experienced by gas in the infalling envelope. This means that radiation pressure is a much less significant barrier to massive star formation than has previously been thought.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411526,
title = {How Protostellar Outflows Help Massive Stars Form},
author = {Mark R. Krumholz and Christopher F. McKee and Richard I. Klein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411526},
year = {2009}
}
备注
4 pages, 2 figures, emulateapj, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters