Massive star formation by accretion I. Disc accretion

Abstract

Massive stars likely form by accretion and the evolutionary track of an accreting forming star corresponds to what is called the birthline in the HR diagram. The shape of this birthline is quite sensitive to the evolution of the entropy in the accreting star. We first study the reasons why some birthlines published in past years present different behaviours for a given accretion rate. We then revisit the question of the accretion rate, which allows us to understand the distribution of the observed pre-main-sequence (pre-MS) stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. Finally, we identify the conditions needed to obtain a large inflation of the star along its pre-MS evolution that may push the birthline towards the Hayashi line in the upper part of the HR diagram. We present new pre-MS models including accretion at various rates and for different initial structures of the accreting core. From the observed upper envelope of pre-MS stars in the HR diagram, we deduce the accretion law that best matches the accretion history of most of the intermediate-mass stars. In the case of cold disc accretion, the existence of a significant swelling during the accretion phase, which leads to radii $\gtrsim 100R_{\odot }$ and brings the star back to the red part of the HR diagram, depends sensitively on the initial conditions. For an accretion rate of $10^{-3}{M}_{\odot }\mathrm{y}{\mathrm{r}}^{-1}$, only models starting from a core with a significant radiative region evolve back to the red part of the HR diagram. We also obtain that, in order to reproduce the observed upper envelope of pre-MS stars in the HR diagram with an accretion law deduced from the observed mass outflows in ultra-compact HII regions, the mass effectively accreted onto the star with respect to the total in falling matter decreases when the mass of the star increases.

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