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Evolution of the Density PDF in Star-forming Clouds: The Role of Gravity

  • Authors: Etienne Jaupart and Gilles Chabrier

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 903 L2.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Evolution of the s-PDF (top row) and η-PDF (bottom row) for solenoidal simulations with ﹩{ \mathcal M }\simeq 3﹩, Nres = 512 (left) and ﹩{ \mathcal M }=5﹩, Nres = 256 (right) at t = 0 (orange circles), SFE = 0% (red stars), and SFE = 20% (dark red squares). Horizontal error bars represent bin spacing and vertical error bars indicate the uncertainty in the η-PDFs corresponding to three different projection directions of the simulation box. Log-normal fits of the low-density parts of PDFs at t = 0 and SFE = 20% are shown by dotted lines. The vertical dotted red lines correspond to the value of sG calculated from Equation (35) with values of ﹩(b{ \mathcal M })﹩ and σs calculated at time ﹩\tilde{t}=t/{\tau }_{\mathrm{ff},0}﹩. For s > sG, the s-PDFs and η-PDFs first develop power-law tails with exponents αs = 2, αη = 4 (black dashed lines) and then αs = 3/2, αη = 2 (green dotted–dashed lines) at higher density. The vertical dotted gray lines at s > 6 correspond to smax from Equation (37).

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