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GMC中CO化学模拟的近似方法:方法比较

Approximations for modelling CO chemistry in GMCs: a comparison of approaches

S. C. O. Glover, P. C. Clark

摘要:

我们研究了几种不同的简化方法来模拟三维湍流分子云的CO化学。我们比较了不同的模型,无论是在行为的综合量,如平均CO分数或云平均CO到H2的转换因子,也通过研究CO的详细分布作为气体密度和视觉消光的函数。此外,我们研究的密度和温度分布取决于我们选择的化学模型的程度。我们发现,所有的模型预测相同的密度PDF,也同意非常好的温度T > 30 K的温度PDF的形式,虽然在较低的温度,一些差异变得明显。所有模型还预测相同的CO至H2转化因子,在几个因子内。然而,当我们更仔细地观察CO分布的细节时,我们发现了更大的差异。更复杂的模型往往比简单的模型产生更少的CO和更多的原子碳,这表明C/CO比可能是一个有用的观测工具,用于确定哪个模型最适合观测数据。然而,这些化学差异似乎对气体的密度或温度分布没有强烈影响,这表明大尺度上分子云的动力学行为对小尺度化学模拟的准确性并不特别敏感。

英文摘要:

We examine several different simplified approaches for modelling the chemistry of CO in three-dimensional numerical simulations of turbulent molecular clouds. We compare the different models both by looking at the behaviour of integrated quantities such as the mean CO fraction or the cloud-averaged CO-to-H2 conversion factor, and also by studying the detailed distribution of CO as a function of gas density and visual extinction. In addition, we examine the extent to which the density and temperature distributions depend on our choice of chemical model. We find that all of the models predict the same density PDF and also agree very well on the form of the temperature PDF for temperatures T > 30 K, although at lower temperatures, some differences become apparent. All of the models also predict the same CO-to-H2 conversion factor, to within a factor of a few. However, when we look more closely at the details of the CO distribution, we find larger differences. The more complex models tend to produce less CO and more atomic carbon than the simpler models, suggesting that the C/CO ratio may be a useful observational tool for determining which model best fits the observational data. Nevertheless, the fact that these chemical differences do not appear to have a strong effect on the density or temperature distributions of the gas suggests that the dynamical behaviour of the molecular clouds on large scales is not particularly sensitive to how accurately the small-scale chemistry is modelled.

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