Star Formation Triggered by Low-Mass Clump Collisions

Kitsionas, Spyridon and Whitworth, Anthony Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1178-5486 2003. Star Formation Triggered by Low-Mass Clump Collisions. Presented at: International Astronomical Union Symposium no 221, Sydney, Australia, 22-25 July 2003. Star Formation at High Angular Resolution.

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Abstract

We investigate by means of high-resolution numerical simulations the phenomenology of star formation triggered by low-velocity collisions between low-mass molecular clumps. The simulations are performed using an SPH code which satisfies the Jeans condition by invoking On-the-Fly Particle Splitting (Kitsionas & Whitworth 2002). The efficiency of star formation appears to increase with increasing clump mass and/or decreasing impact parameter b and/or increasing clump velocity. For b<0.5 the collisions produce shock-compressed layers which fragment into filaments that break up into cores. Protostellar objects then condense out of the cores and accrete from them. The resulting accretion rates are comparable to those of Class 0 objects. The densities in the filaments are sufficient that they could be mapped in ammonia or CS line radiation in nearby star formation regions. The phenomenology of star formation observed in our simulations compares rather well with the observed filamentary distribution of young stars in Taurus (Hartmann 2002

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 09:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67562

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