Issue |
A&A
Volume 614, June 2018
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Article Number | A53 | |
Number of page(s) | 16 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732076 | |
Published online | 12 June 2018 |
Episodic accretion in binary protostars emerging from self-gravitating solar mass cores
1
Departamento de Astronomía, Facultad Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Concepción,
Av. Esteban Iturra s/n Barrio Universitario,
Casilla
160-C,
Concepción, Chile
e-mail: rriaz@astro-udec.cl,dschleicher@astro-udec.cl
2
Centre for mathematical Plasma-Astrophysics, Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven,
Celestijnenlaan 200B,
3001
Heverlee, Belgium
e-mail: siegfriedvanaverbeke@gmail.com
Received:
10
October
2017
Accepted:
25
December
2017
Observations show a large spread in the luminosities of young protostars, which are frequently explained in the context of episodic accretion. We tested this scenario with numerical simulations that follow the collapse of a solar mass molecular cloud using the GRADSPH code, thereby varying the strength of the initial perturbations and temperature of the cores. A specific emphasis of this paper is to investigate the role of binaries and multiple systems in the context of episodic accretion and to compare their evolution to the evolution in isolated fragments. Our models form a variety of low-mass protostellar objects including single, binary, and triple systems in which binaries are more active in exhibiting episodic accretion than isolated protostars. We also find a general decreasing trend in the average mass accretion rate over time, suggesting that the majority of the protostellar mass is accreted within the first 105 years. This result can potentially help to explain the surprisingly low average luminosities in the majority of the protostellar population.
Key words: stars: formation / methods: numerical / accretion, accretion disks
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