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扩散星际介质中湍流耗散区的模型

Models of turbulent dissipation regions in the diffuse interstellar medium

Benjamin Godard, Edith Falgarone, Guillaume Pineau Des Forêts

摘要:

超声速湍流是星际介质中超热能的一个巨大储存库。它的消散,因为它在空间和时间上是间歇性的,可以深刻地改变气体的化学性质。我们进一步探索了一种混合方法来计算磁化耗散结构的化学和热演化,在冷中性介质中所观察到的湍流特性所提供的能量约束下。对于第一次,我们考虑到相对于气体的热和化学弛豫时间尺度的突发的相对持续时间模型的随机视线。关键参数是由于环境湍流引起的应变“a”的湍流速率。随着气体密度的增加,它控制着耗散结构的大小,从而控制着爆发的强度。对于一个大范围的应变率和密度,湍流耗散区(TDR)的模型再现CH+柱密度中观察到的扩散介质和它们的相关性与高激发H2。他们这样做,而不会产生过量的CH。作为一个自然的结果,他们再现的丰度比HCO+/OH和HCO+/H2O,和他们的动态范围约一个数量级的扩散气体中观察到。大的C2 H和CO丰度,也与HCO+有关,是TDR模型的另一个结果,与观测值比较好。CN、HCN和HNC的丰度和柱密度计算值比PDR模型预测值高出一个数量级,但仍明显小于观测值。

英文摘要:

Supersonic turbulence is a large reservoir of suprathermal energy in the interstellar medium. Its dissipation, because it is intermittent in space and time, can deeply modify the chemistry of the gas. We further explore a hybrid method to compute the chemical and thermal evolution of a magnetized dissipative structure, under the energetic constraints provided by the observed properties of turbulence in the cold neutral medium. For the first time, we model a random line of sight by taking into account the relative duration of the bursts with respect to the thermal and chemical relaxation timescales of the gas. The key parameter is the turbulent rate of strain "a" due to the ambient turbulence. With the gas density, it controls the size of the dissipative structures, therefore the strength of the burst. For a large range of rates of strain and densities, the models of turbulent dissipation regions (TDR) reproduce the CH+ column densities observed in the diffuse medium and their correlation with highly excited H2. They do so without producing an excess of CH. As a natural consequence, they reproduce the abundance ratios of HCO+/OH and HCO+/H2O, and their dynamic range of about one order of magnitude observed in diffuse gas. Large C2H and CO abundances, also related to those of HCO+, are another outcome of the TDR models that compare well with observed values. The abundances and column densities computed for CN, HCN and HNC are one order of magnitude above PDR model predictions, although still significantly smaller than observed values.

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