Kauffmann, Jens: The State and Evolution of Isolated Dense Molecular Cores. - Bonn, 2007. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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author = {{Jens Kauffmann}},
title = {The State and Evolution of Isolated Dense Molecular Cores},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2007,
note = {This work presents studies of nearby (< 500 pc) dense molecular cloud cores, the sites of low-mass star formation. The sample includes starless and protostellar cores and allows to compare their properties in a homogenous manner. All of the projects presented here are related to an extensive dust thermal continuum emission imaging survey at 1.2 mm wavelength that probes the mass distribution of dense cores. Many of them are also related to the Spitzer Legacy Project “From Molecular Cores to Planet Forming Disks” (c2d) that stimulated the dust emission survey and provided a general framework for my thesis. The main body of this work discusses the dust emission survey and the properties and nature of an unusually faint (< 0.1 L_sun ) source that is apparently embedded in one of the dense cores surveyed.
The data from the dust emission survey is used to study the physical state and evolution of starless cores, “normal” protostars, and of the recently discovered Very Low Luminosity Objects (VeLLOs). This is the first study probing VeLLO dense core properties homogeneously for a larger sample of sources. Given that this survey covers both starless and protostellar cores, it is well suited to perform comparative studies. The aim is to understand how the mass distribution in dense cores controls the presence or absence of active star formation. As part of this effort I infer conditions that are necessary (but not sufficient) for active star formation to be possible. These can be understood as a consequence of the quasistatic evolution of a dense core, but do not conclusively imply the latter. Most VeLLO cores fulfil these conditions, questioning the notion that some VeLLOs form in cores that are not sufficiently evolved to form stars. I suggest a revision of the criteria used to identify “evolved” cores. Class 0 and class I protostars covered by my survey cannot be uniquely discriminated, suggesting also a revision of criteria used to assign infrared classes.
Furthermore, I report the discovery of L1148-IRS, a candidate Very Low Luminosity Object (VeLLO; L < 0.1 L_sun ) in the nearby (325 pc) L1148 dense core. The global spectral energy distribution, the morphology of nebulosity detected near 1 μm wavelength, the inferred density profile of the dense core, and the tentative detection of inward motions towards L1148-IRS are consistent with the source being an embedded protostar. It is unlikely that L1148-IRS is a galaxy by chance projected onto the L1148 dense core. I do, however, not detect hallmarks of active star formation like molecular outflows or clear bipolar nebulosity proving a protostellar nature of L1148-IRS. This is consistent with our present view of VeLLOs.
If L1148-IRS is a VeLLO, then it is a very interesting one. Its present mass would be substellar, and its immediate envelope has a mass of only about 0.15 M_sun . Thus, L1148-IRS would be the first protostar to definitely have a significantly sub-solar final mass. The collapse of the natal dense core could not be understood in the framework of quasistatically evolving cores. This would make L1148 the first dense core in which non-quasistatic evolution plays a significant role.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/3093}
}

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