Unifying low and high mass star formation through density amplified hubs of filaments

Abstract

Context: Star formation takes place in giant molecular clouds, resulting in mass-segregated young stellar clusters composed of Sun-like stars, brown dwarves, and massive O-type(50-100\msun) stars. Aims: To identify candidate hub-filament systems (HFS) in the Milky-Way and examine their role in the formation of the highest mass stars and star clusters. Methods: Filaments around ~35000 HiGAL clumps that are detected using the DisPerSE algorithm. Hub is defined as a junction of three or more filaments. Column density maps were masked by the filament skeletons and averaged for HFS and non-HFS samples to compute the radial profile along the filaments into the clumps. Results: ~3700~(11\%) are candidate HFS of which, ~2150~(60\%) are pre-stellar, ~1400~(40\%) are proto-stellar. All clumps with L>10^4 Lsun and L>10^5 Lsun at distances respectively within 2kpc and 5kpc are located in the hubs of HFS. The column-densities of hubs are found to be enhanced by a factor of ~2 (pre-stellar sources) up to ~10 (proto-stellar sources). Conclusions: All high-mass stars preferentially form in the density enhanced hubs of HFS. This amplification can drive the observed longitudinal flows along filaments providing further mass accretion. Radiation pressure and feedback can escape into the inter-filamentary voids. We propose a "filaments to clusters" unified paradigm for star formation, with the following salient features: a) low-intermediate mass stars form in the filaments slowly (10^6yr) and massive stars quickly (10^5yr) in the hub, b) the initial mass function is the sum of stars continuously created in the HFS with all massive stars formed in the hub, c) Feedback dissiption and mass segregation arise naturally due to HFS properties, and c) explain age spreads within bound clusters and formation of isolated OB associations.

20 pages, 17 figures, Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

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