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大尺度赫比格-哈罗天体的光学研究进展 王
敏
摘 要
近期大视场CCD成像观测表明,由年轻星激发的部分赫比格-哈罗(HH)天体的尺度范围超过1pc,比过去认识的HH天体的尺度大了一个量级。目前的观测已经发现pc尺度的HH天体有数十个,表明HH天体达到pc尺度是很普遍的,这将深刻地改变人们对年轻星与其周围环境作用的认识。综合评述了pc尺度HH天体的观测性质,讨论了巨HH天体对恒星形成的重大意义及其对周围星际介质的物理和化学影响。
Progress in Optical Studies on Parsec-scale Herbig-Haro
Flows
Wang
Min
Abstract Recent
observations demonstrate that outflows traced by Herbig-Haro (HH)
objects can extend for parsecs from their driving sources, at least an
order of magnitude larger than previous work. Some well-known HH
objects such as HH 34 and HH 111 are verified to be parsec-scale HH
flows. Up to now, dozens of giant HH flows have been reported in the
Orion, Taurus, Cepheus and Perseus molecular cloud complexes. It thus
appears that it is common for HH flows to attain parsec-scale
dimensions. The ubiquity of parsec-scale HH flows profoundly alters
our view of the impact of young stars on their environment. They
provide a fossil record of the outflow behavior and mass loss rate
from a young star over a significant fraction of the 105 year outflow
phase, and provide indirect clues to the accretion history of the
forming star. Many parsec-scale HH outflows with multiple internal
working surfaces and S-shaped point symmetry about the central sources
show evidence for variability of ejection velocity and orientation of
the source jets. Giant HH flows with longer or comparable lengthes to
associated CO outflows, imply that HH flows power CO flows. Giant HH
flows are capable of heating, ionizing, and dissociating cloud
material over parsec scale distances and may play a role in the
chemical rejuvenation of clouds and the generation of the turbulent
motions observed in molecular clouds as well as the self-regulation of
star formation.
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