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We present hydrodynamic simulations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) traveling through the hot, tenuous medium in the Galactic halo. A suite of models was created using the FLASH hydrodynamics code, sampling various cloud sizes, densities,…

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We present a detailed comparison of optical H II region spectra to photoionization models based on modern stellar atmosphere models. We examine both spatially resolved and integrated emission-line spectra of the HII regions DEM L323, DEM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. S. Oey , M. A. Dopita , J. C. Shields , R. C. Smith

Infrared-dark clouds (IRDCs) harbor the early phases of cluster and high-mass star formation and are comprised of cold (~20 K), dense (n > 10$^4$ cm$^{-3}$) gas. The spectral energy distribution (SED) of IRDCs is dominated by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Sarah E. Ragan , Thomas Henning , Henrik Beuther

Despite increasing research in massive star formation, little is known about its earliest stages. Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs) are cold, dense and massive enough to harbour the sites of future high-mass star formation. But up to now, mainly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. -A. Chira , H. Beuther , H. Linz , F. Schuller , C. M. Walmsley , K. M. Menten , L. Bronfman

We use Two Micron All Sky Survey, GLIMPSE, and MIPSGAL survey data to analyze the young stellar object (YSO) and warm dust distribution around several mid-infrared-identified bubbles. We identify YSOs using J-band to 8 um photometry and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Watson , U. Hanspal , A. Mengistu

In dense parts of interstellar clouds (> 10^5 cm^-3), dust & gas are expected to be in thermal equilibrium, being coupled via collisions. However, previous studies have shown that the temperatures of the dust & gas may remain decoupled even…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-05 E. Koumpia , P. M. Harvey , V. Ossenkopf , F. F. S. van der Tak , B. Mookerjea , A. Fuente , C. Kramer

We present high resolution simulations of two-fluid (ion-neutral) MHD turbulence with resolutions as large as 512^3. The simulations are supersonic and mildly sub-Alfvenic, in keeping with the conditions present in molecular clouds. Such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Chad D. Meyer , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Blakesley Burkhart , Alex Lazarian

Constraining the temperature and density structure of dense molecular cloud cores is fundamental for understanding the initial conditions of star formation. We use Herschel observations of the thermal FIR dust emission from nearby isolated…

Whether ionization feedback triggers the formation of massive stars is highly debated. Using ALMA 3 mm observations with a spatial resolution of $\sim 0.05$ pc and a mass sensitivity of 1.1 $\rm M_\odot$ beam$^{-1}$ at 20 K, we investigate…

We have constructed photo-ionization models of five galactic bulge planetary nebulae using our automatic method which enables a fully self-consistent determination of the physical parameters of a planetary nebula. The models are constrained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. A. M. van Hoof , G. C. Van de Steene

Bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs) are formed at the periphery of H$~$II regions as the radiation from the central star interacts with dense gas. The ionization and resulting compression of the clouds may lead to cloud disruption causing secondary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-10 A. Soam , G. Maheswar , Chang Won Lee , S. Neha , B-G Andersson

The Orion Bar is the archetypal edge-on molecular cloud surface illuminated by strong ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars. Owing to the close distance to Orion (about 1,350 light-year), the effects of stellar feedback on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-23 Javier R. Goicoechea , J. Pety , S. Cuadrado , J. Cernicharo , E. Chapillon , A. Fuente , M. Gerin , C. Joblin , N. Marcelino , P. Pilleri

Here we examine the evolution of irradiated clouds using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics ({\small SPH}) algorithm coupled with a ray-tracing scheme that calculates the position of the ionisation-front at each timestep. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Anathpindika , H. C. Bhatt

We present a detailed comparison of the ionizing spectral energy distributions (SEDs) predicted by four modern stellar atmosphere codes, TLUSTY, CMFGEN, WMbasic, and FASTWIND. We consider three sets of stellar parameters representing a late…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Simón-Díaz , G. Stasińska

We explore the relationship between gas and dust in massive star-forming regions by comparing physical properties derived from each. We compare the temperatures and column densities in a massive star-forming Infrared Dark Cloud (IRDC,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-15 Cara Battersby , John Bally , Miranda Dunham , Adam Ginsburg , Steve Longmore , Jeremy Darling

We present three-dimensional astrochemical simulations and synthetic observations of magnetised, turbulent, self-gravitating molecular clouds. We explore various galactic interstellar medium environments, including cosmic-ray ionization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-20 Thomas G. Bisbas , Jonathan C. Tan , Kei E. I. Tanaka

The extragalactic background light (EBL), i.e., the diffuse meta-galactic photon field in the ultraviolet to infrared, is dominated by the emission from stars in galaxies. It is, therefore, intimately connected with the integrated star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Martin Raue , Manuel Meyer

We introduce a novel approach to modelling the nebular emission from star-forming galaxies by combining the contributions from many HII regions incorporating loose trends in physical properties, random dust attenuation, a predefined Halpha…

To characterize a bright-rimmed cloud embedded in the HII region Sh2-48 searching for evidence of triggered star formation. We carried out observations towards a region of 2'x2' centered at RA=18h 22m 11.39s, dec.=-14deg 35m 24.81s (J2000)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 M. E. Ortega , S. Paron , E. Giacani , M. Rubio , G. Dubner

We use 10,387 galaxies from the Herschel Astrophysical TeraHertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) to probe the far-infrared radio correlation (FIRC) of star forming galaxies as a function of redshift, wavelength, and effective dust temperature.…