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超新星驱动的湍流磁化ISM的垂直结构

Vertical structure of a supernova-driven turbulent magnetized ISM

Alex S. Hill, M. Ryan Joung, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Robert A. Benjamin, L. Matthew Haffner, Christian Klingenberg, Knut Waagan

摘要:

恒星的反馈驱动着物质从圆盘到星系晕的循环。我们进行三维磁流体动力学模拟的一个垂直列的星际介质与初始条件的典型的太阳圈中,超新星驱动湍流,并确定介质的垂直分层。模拟运行使用一个稳定的,积极的保护计划的理想MHD实现的FLASH代码。我们发现大部分(\approx 90%)的质量包含在冷分子和原子气体(T < 200 K)或热原子和电离气体(5000 K < T < 10^{4.2} K)的热稳定温度区中,在冷区和热区的温度概率分布函数中都有很强的峰值。200 - 10^{4.2} K的气体填充了平面附近体积的50- 60%,与超新星遗迹(30- 40%)和嵌入其中的冷云(<10%)相关的较热气体。在|z| ~ 1-2 kpc时,转变温度(10^5 K)气体占大部分质量和体积,而在|z| > 3 kpc时,热气体占主导地位。在我们的模型中的磁场没有显着的影响,在每个温度制度的气体的标度高度;磁张力近似等于和相反的磁压力,所以添加的字段不会显着影响气体的垂直支持。加入磁场确实减少了冷态(< 200 K)气体的比例,相应地增加了暖态(~ 10^4 K)气体的比例。然而,我们的模型缺乏旋转剪切,因此没有大规模的发电机,与现实相比,这降低了场在模型中的作用。超新星驱动了晕气体垂直分布的振荡,振荡周期从T < 200 K气体的约3000万年到10^6 K气体的约10000万年不等,与沃尔特斯和考克斯的预测一致。

英文摘要:

Stellar feedback drives the circulation of matter from the disk to the halo of galaxies. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a vertical column of the interstellar medium with initial conditions typical of the solar circle in which supernovae drive turbulence and determine the vertical stratification of the medium. The simulations were run using a stable, positivity-preserving scheme for ideal MHD implemented in the FLASH code. We find that the majority (\approx 90 %) of the mass is contained in thermally-stable temperature regimes of cold molecular and atomic gas at T < 200 K or warm atomic and ionized gas at 5000 K < T < 10^{4.2} K, with strong peaks in probability distribution functions of temperature in both the cold and warm regimes. The 200 - 10^{4.2} K gas fills 50-60 % of the volume near the plane, with hotter gas associated with supernova remnants (30-40 %) and cold clouds (< 10 %) embedded within. At |z| ~ 1-2 kpc, transition-temperature (10^5 K) gas accounts for most of the mass and volume, while hot gas dominates at |z| > 3 kpc. The magnetic field in our models has no significant impact on the scale heights of gas in each temperature regime; the magnetic tension force is approximately equal to and opposite the magnetic pressure, so the addition of the field does not significantly affect the vertical support of the gas. The addition of a magnetic field does reduce the fraction of gas in the cold (< 200 K) regime with a corresponding increase in the fraction of warm (~ 10^4 K) gas. However, our models lack rotational shear and thus have no large-scale dynamo, which reduces the role of the field in the models compared to reality. The supernovae drive oscillations in the vertical distribution of halo gas, with the period of the oscillations ranging from ~ 30 Myr in the T < 200 K gas to ~ 100 Myr in the 10^6 K gas, in line with predictions by Walters & Cox.

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