FORGE'd in FIRE III: The IMF in Quasar Accretion Disks from STARFORGE

Autor: Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudic, Kyle Kremer, Stella S. R. Offner, David Guszejnov, Anna L. Rosen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Vol 7 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2565-6120
DOI: 10.33232/001c.122857
Popis: Recently, we demonstrated self-consistent formation of strongly-magnetized quasar accretion disks (QADs) from cosmological radiation-magnetohydrodynamic-thermochemical galaxy-star formation simulations, including the full STARFORGE physics shown previously to produce a reasonable IMF under typical ISM conditions. Here we study star formation and the stellar IMF in QADs, on scales from 100 au to 10 pc from the SMBH. We show it is critical to include physics often previously neglected, including magnetic fields, radiation, and (proto)stellar feedback. Closer to the SMBH, star formation is suppressed, but the (rare) stars that do form exhibit top-heavy IMFs. Stars can form only in special locations (e.g. magnetic field switches) in the outer QAD. Protostars accrete their natal cores rapidly but then dynamically decouple from the gas and 'wander,' ceasing accretion on timescales ~100 yr. Their jets control initial core accretion, but the ejecta are 'swept up' into the larger-scale QAD flow without much dynamical effect. The strong tidal environment strongly suppresses common-core multiplicity. The IMF shape depends sensitively on un-resolved dynamics of protostellar disks (PSDs), as the global dynamical times can become incredibly short (< yr) and tidal fields are incredibly strong, so whether PSDs can efficiently transport angular momentum or fragment catastrophically at
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