Filament Accretion and Fragmentation in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
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| author | Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan Di Francesco, James Friesen, Rachel K. Pineda, Jaime E. Caselli, Paola Ginsburg, Adam Kirk, Helen Punanova, Anna Collaboration, the GAS |
| author_facet | Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan Di Francesco, James Friesen, Rachel K. Pineda, Jaime E. Caselli, Paola Ginsburg, Adam Kirk, Helen Punanova, Anna Collaboration, the GAS |
| contents | Observations suggest that filaments in molecular clouds can grow by mass accretion while forming cores via fragmentation. Here we present one of the first large sample studies of filament accretion using velocity gradient measurements of star-forming filaments on the $\sim 0.05$ pc scale with NH$_3$ observations of the Perseus Molecular Cloud, primarily obtained as a part of the GBT Ammonia Survey (GAS). In this study, we find significant correlations between velocity gradient, velocity dispersion, mass per unit length, and the number of cores per unit length of the Perseus filaments. Our results suggest a scenario in which filaments not only grow through mass accretion but also form new cores continuously in the process well into the thermally supercritical regime. Such behavior is contrary to that expected from isolated filament models but consistent with how filaments form within a more realistic cloud environment, suggesting that the cloud environment plays a crucial role in shaping core formation and evolution in filaments. Furthermore, even though velocity gradients within filaments are not oriented randomly, we find no correlation between velocity gradient orientation and the filament properties we analyzed. This result suggests that gravity is unlikely the dominant mechanism imposing order on the $\sim 0.05$ pc scale for dense star-forming gas. |
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| spellingShingle | Filament Accretion and Fragmentation in the Perseus Molecular Cloud Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan Di Francesco, James Friesen, Rachel K. Pineda, Jaime E. Caselli, Paola Ginsburg, Adam Kirk, Helen Punanova, Anna Collaboration, the GAS Astrophysics of Galaxies Observations suggest that filaments in molecular clouds can grow by mass accretion while forming cores via fragmentation. Here we present one of the first large sample studies of filament accretion using velocity gradient measurements of star-forming filaments on the $\sim 0.05$ pc scale with NH$_3$ observations of the Perseus Molecular Cloud, primarily obtained as a part of the GBT Ammonia Survey (GAS). In this study, we find significant correlations between velocity gradient, velocity dispersion, mass per unit length, and the number of cores per unit length of the Perseus filaments. Our results suggest a scenario in which filaments not only grow through mass accretion but also form new cores continuously in the process well into the thermally supercritical regime. Such behavior is contrary to that expected from isolated filament models but consistent with how filaments form within a more realistic cloud environment, suggesting that the cloud environment plays a crucial role in shaping core formation and evolution in filaments. Furthermore, even though velocity gradients within filaments are not oriented randomly, we find no correlation between velocity gradient orientation and the filament properties we analyzed. This result suggests that gravity is unlikely the dominant mechanism imposing order on the $\sim 0.05$ pc scale for dense star-forming gas. |
| title | Filament Accretion and Fragmentation in the Perseus Molecular Cloud |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16372 |