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Record W2004485661 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201218961

Physical properties of interstellar filaments

2012· article· en· W2004485661 on OpenAlex
J. Fischera, P. G. Martin

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Bibliographic record

VenueAstronomy and Astrophysics · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicAstrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Canadian institutionsCanadian Institute for Theoretical AstrophysicsUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Space Agency
KeywordsPhysicsFull width at half maximumIsothermal processRADIUSProtein filamentGravitationAstrophysicsGravitational collapseInterstellar mediumInterstellar cloudMass ratioThermodynamic equilibriumAtomic physicsThermodynamicsMaterials scienceClassical mechanicsOpticsGalaxy

Abstract

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We analyze the physical parameters of interstellar filaments that we describe by an idealized model of isothermal self-gravitating infinite cylinder in pressure equilibrium with the ambient medium. Their gravitational state is characterized by the ratio fcyl of their mass line density to the maximum possible value for a cylinder in a vacuum. Equilibrium solutions exist only for fcyl < 1. This ratio is used in providing analytical expressions for the central density, the radius, the profile of the column density, the column density through the cloud centre, and the FWHM. The dependence of the physical properties on external pressure and temperature is discussed and directly compared to the case of pressure-confined isothermal self-gravitating spheres. Comparison with recent observations of the FWHM and the central column density NH(0) show good agreement and suggest a filament temperature of ~10 K and an external pressure in the range 1.5 × 104 K cm-3 to 5 × 104 K cm-3. Stability considerations indicate that interstellar filaments become increasingly gravitationally unstable with mass line ratio fcyl approaching unity. For intermediate fcyl > 0.5 the instabilities should promote core formation through compression, with a separation of about five times the FWHM. We discuss the nature of filaments with high mass line densities and their relevance to gravitational fragmentation and star formation.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.745
Threshold uncertainty score0.696

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it