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在全局磁盘Galerkin中模拟ISM

Simulating the ISM in Global Disk Galaxies

Elizabeth J. Tasker, Greg L. Bryan, Jonathan C. Tan

摘要:

直到最近,对整个星系进行模拟的模拟还局限于等温或固定的两相或三相星际介质(ISM)。这掩盖了ISM在塑造观测到的银河系尺度恒星形成关系中的全部作用。特别是肯尼柯特关系表明,恒星的形成速率以一种简单的方式依赖于全球星系的数量,如平均气体质量表面密度和动力学时间。与此相反,对附近恒星形成区域的观测,包括斯皮策望远镜的图像,表明一直到"局部尺度“($\sim$秒差距)的恒星形成是一个高度聚集的过程,气体以广泛的密度和多相存在,似乎与大尺度星系脱钩。许多不同的物理过程似乎都在影响恒星的形成速率,包括气体的加热和冷却、外流的“惰性”能量注入、风和超新星爆炸波、电离和磁场支持。在这里,我们提出的结果,从全球模拟盘星系恒星形成,包括一个完全多相ISM和比较简单的等温模型。我们还研究了背景加热的影响。我们讨论了巨大的分子云形成的过程中的一个可能的联系银河系和地方尺度的恒星形成。

英文摘要:

Until recently, simulations that modeled entire galaxies were restricted to an isothermal or fixed 2- or 3-phase interstellar medium (ISM). This obscured the full role of the ISM in shaping the observed galactic-scale star formation relations. In particular the Kennicutt relation suggests that star formation rates depend in a simple way on global galactic quantities, such as mean gas mass surface density and dynamical time. Contrary to this, observations of nearby star-forming regions, including images from the Spitzer telescope, show that all the way down to ``local-scales'' ($\sim$ parsecs) star formation is a highly clustered process with the gas existing at a wide range of densities and multiple phases, and seemingly decoupled from the larger-scale Galaxy. Many different physical processes appear to be influencing the star formation rate, including heating and cooling of the gas, ``turbulent'' energy injection from outflows, winds and supernova blastwaves, ionization, and magnetic field support. Here we present results from global simulations of disk galaxy star formation that include a fully multiphase ISM and compare to simpler isothermal models. We also investigate the effect of background heating. We discuss the process of giant molecular cloud formation as one of the possible links between the galactic and local scales of star formation.

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