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围绕HII区域柱状物形成的三维模拟:激波曲率的重要性

3D simulations of pillars formation around HII regions: the importance of shock curvature

P. Tremblin, E. Audit, V. Minier, N. Schneider

摘要:

来自大质量恒星的辐射反馈是理解HII区域如何在与分子云的界面处增强或抑制柱和球状体中恒星形成的关键过程。我们的目标是为电离和气体云之间的相互作用建模做出贡献,以更好地理解工作过程。我们详细研究了调制对云-HII区界面和云内部密度调制的影响。我们运行三维流体动力学模拟的基础上欧拉方程与重力耦合使用HERACLES代码。我们实现了一种方法来解决电离/复合方程,我们考虑到典型的加热和冷却过程中工作的星际介质,由于电离/复合物理。紫外线辐射产生了一个致密的外壳,被压缩在电离前沿和前方的激波之间。界面调制产生弯曲冲击,其自身崩溃,导致稳定增长的柱状结构。初始界面调制越窄,所得到的柱越长。我们解释柱产生的密度调制的能力,这些密度调制,弯曲的电离前沿的冲击。激波曲率是理解HII区边缘结构形成的关键过程。云边缘的界面和密度调制对致密壳层形成过程中的形态有直接影响。在云的更深处,结构的影响较小,这是因为壳在膨胀过程中达到了高密度。

英文摘要:

Radiative feedback from massive stars is a key process to understand how HII regions may enhance or inhibit star formation in pillars and globules at the interface with molecular clouds. We aim to contribute to model the interactions between ionization and gas clouds to better understand the processes at work. We study in detail the impact of modulations on the cloud-HII region interface and density modulations inside the cloud. We run three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations based on Euler equations coupled with gravity using the HERACLES code. We implement a method to solve ionization/recombination equations and we take into account typical heating and cooling processes at work in the interstellar medium and due to ionization/recombination physics. UV radiation creates a dense shell compressed between an ionization front and a shock ahead. Interface modulations produce a curved shock that collapses on itself leading to stable growing pillar-like structures. The narrower the initial interface modulation, the longer the resulting pillar. We interpret pillars resulting from density modulations in terms of the ability of these density modula- tions to curve the shock ahead the ionization front. The shock curvature is a key process to understand the formation of structures at the edge of HII regions. Interface and density modulations at the edge of the cloud have a direct impact on the morphology of the dense shell during its formation. Deeper in the cloud, structures have less influence due to the high densities reached by the shell during its expansion.

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