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星际模型对银河系恒星形成性质的影响

The Effect of the Interstellar Model on Star Formation Properties in Galactic Disks

Elizabeth J. Tasker, Greg L. Bryan

摘要:

我们通过考虑三种不同的ISM模型研究了星际气体条件对全球星系模拟的影响。我们的第一个模型只包括辐射冷却到300 K,我们的第二个模型增加了一个额外的背景加热项,由于光电加热,我们的第三个模型使用了一个等温状态方程,温度为10^4 K,没有显式加热或冷却。在每一种情况下,都有两种常见的恒星形成方法。第一种是基于宇宙学模拟,恒星形成的门槛很低,但效率也很低。第二种假设恒星仅在高密度区域形成,但效率更高。我们还探讨了包括来自II型超新星的反馈的影响。我们发现,不同的ISM类型产生显着的差异,在磁盘的结构和温度阶段存在于气体中,虽然列入反馈在很大程度上主导这些效果。特别是,恒星形成的团块的大小增加了背景加热和强制执行等温ISM。我们还研究了一维轮廓,发现对数正态PDF在密度的几个数量级上为我们所有的模拟提供了很好的拟合。总的来说,尽管有明显的结构差异,但盘中的恒星形成特性在很大程度上对ISM类型不敏感,并且与观测结果相当吻合。

英文摘要:

We studied the effect of interstellar gas conditions on global galaxy simulations by considering three different models for the ISM. Our first model included only radiative cooling down to 300 K, our second model added an additional background heating term due to photoelectric heating, and our third model uses an isothermal equation of state with a temperature of 10^4 K and no explicit heating or cooling. Two common prescriptions for star formation are implemented in each case. The first is based on cosmological simulations with a low threshold for star formation but also a low efficiency. The second assumes stars form only in high density regions but with a higher efficiency. We also explore the effects of including feedback from type II supernovae. We find that the different ISM types produce marked differences in the structure of the disk and temperature phases present in the gas, although inclusion of feedback largely dominates these effects. In particular, size of the star-forming clumps was increased both by background heating and by enforcing an isothermal ISM. We also looked at the one dimensional profiles and found that a lognormal PDF provides a good fit for all our simulations over several orders of magnitude in density. Overall, despite noticeable structural differences, the star formation properties in the disk are largely insensitive to ISM type and agree reasonably well with observations.

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