Radiative Feedback and the Photoevaporation of Intergalactic Clouds
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The first sources of ionizing radiation to condense out of the dark and neutral IGM sent ionization fronts sweeping outward through their surroundings, overtaking other primordial gas-clouds and photoevaporating them. Results are presented of the first gas dynamical simulations of this process, including radiative transfer, along with some observational diagnostics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9804117,
title = {Radiative Feedback and the Photoevaporation of Intergalactic Clouds},
author = {Paul R. Shapiro and Alejandro C. Raga and Garrelt Mellema},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9804117},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures. One LaTeX file, one LaTeX style file, 6 postscript files, tar-ed and gzip-ed. To appear in Proceedings of the Workshop on H_2 in the Early Universe, eds. F. Palla, E. Corbelli, and D. Galli, Memorie Della Societa Astronomica Italiana, in press (1998)