Synthetic observations of protostellar multiple systems

Lomax, Oliver ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1641-4318 and Whitworth, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1178-5486 2018. Synthetic observations of protostellar multiple systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 475 (2) , pp. 1696-1707. 10.1093/mnras/stx3357

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Abstract

Observations of protostars are often compared with synthetic observations of models in order to infer the underlying physical properties of the protostars. The majority of these models have a single protostar, attended by a disc and an envelope. However, observational and numerical evidence suggests that a large fraction of protostars form as multiple systems. This means that fitting models of single protostars to observations may be inappropriate. We produce synthetic observations of protostellar multiple systems undergoing realistic, non-continuous accretion. These systems consist of multiple protostars with episodic luminosities, embedded self-consistently in discs and envelopes. We model the gas dynamics of these systems using smoothed particle hydrodynamics and we generate synthetic observations by post-processing the snapshots using the SPAMCART Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. We present simulation results of three model protostellar multiple systems. For each of these, we generate 4 × 104 synthetic spectra at different points in time and from different viewing angles. We propose a Bayesian method, using similar calculations to those presented here, but in greater numbers, to infer the physical properties of protostellar multiple systems from observations.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0035-8711
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 February 2018
Date of Acceptance:	20 November 2017
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 21:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/109187

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