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Winds from young massive stars contribute a large amount of energy to their host molecular clouds. This has consequences for the dynamics and observable structure of star-forming clouds. In this paper, we present radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Sam Geen , Rebekka Bieri , Joakim Rosdahl , Alex de Koter

We include feedback in global hydrodynamic simulations in order to study the star formation properties, and gas structure and dynamics, in models of galactic disks. We extend previous models by implementing feedback in gravitationally bound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rahul Shetty , Eve C. Ostriker

Properties of candidate stars, forming out of molecular clouds, depend on the ambient conditions of the parent cloud. We present a series of 2D and 3D simulations of fragmentation of molecular clouds in starburst regions as well as clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Hocuk , M. Spaans

We use magnetohydrodynamical simulations of converging warm neutral medium flows to analyse the formation and global evolution of magnetised and turbulent molecular clouds subject to supernova feedback from massive stars. We show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Bastian Körtgen , Daniel Seifried , Robi Banerjee , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Avilés

In a previous article, with a new code designed for a photoionized thick hot medium using a full transfer treatment of both lines and continuum, we have studied the He-like emission of a medium photoionized by an X-ray source. We considered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Olivier Godet , Suzy Collin , Anne-Marie Dumont

As part of the SILCC-ZOOM project we present our first sub-parsec resolution radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of two molecular clouds self-consistently forming from a turbulent, multi-phase ISM. The clouds have similar initial masses of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-11 Sebastian Haid , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Richard Wuensch , Frantisek Dinnbier , Thorsten Naab

We analyze hydrodynamic simulations of turbulent, star-forming molecular clouds that are post-processed with the photo-dissociation region astrochemistry code 3D-PDR. We investigate the sensitivity of 15 commonly applied turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Ryan D. Boyden , Stella S. R. Offner , Eric W. Koch , Erik W. Rosolowsky

All molecular clouds are observed to be turbulent, but the origin, means of sustenance, and evolution of the turbulence remain debated. One possibility is that stellar feedback injects enough energy into the cloud to drive observed motions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Ryan D. Boyden , Eric W. Koch , Erik W. Rosolowsky , Stella S. R. Offner

We investigate radiative feedback from a 34 M$_\odot$ star in a $10^4$ M$_\odot$ turbulent cloud using three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) models. We use Monte Carlo radiative transfer to accurately compute photoionization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Ahmad A. Ali , Tim J. Harries

Massive star clusters are observed in a broad range of galaxy luminosity and types, and are assumed to form in dense gas-rich environments. Using a parsec-resolution hydrodynamical simulation of an isolated gas-rich low mass galaxy, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Nicolas Guillard , Eric Emsellem , Florent Renaud

Using cosmological simulations that incorporate gas dynamics and gravitational forces, we investigate the influence of photoionization by a UV radiation background on the formation of galaxies. In our highest resolution simulations, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David H. Weinberg , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz

The ionising feedback of young massive stars is well known to influence the dynamics of the birth environment and hence plays an important role in regulating the star formation process in molecular clouds. For this reason, modern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-30 Maya A. Petkova , Bert Vandenbroucke , Ian A. Bonnell , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

Time dependent photoionization modeling of warm absorber outflows in active galactic nuclei can play an important role in understanding the interaction between warm absorbers and the central black hole. The warm absorber may be out of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-30 Dev R Sadaula , Timothy R Kallman

We calculate the hydrogen and helium-ionizing radiation escaping star-forming molecular clouds, as a function of the star cluster mass and compactness, using a set of high-resolution radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti , Sam Geen

Massive stars have far-reaching feedback effects that alter the surrounding environment on local, global, and cosmic scales. Spectral analyses of massive stars with adequate stellar-atmosphere models are important to study massive star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Varsha Ramachandran

Molecular clouds interacting with supernova remnants may be subject to a greatly enhanced irradiation by cosmic rays produced at the shocked interface between the ejecta and the molecular gas. Over the past decade, broad-band observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Fatuzzo , F. C. Adams , F. Melia

We compare the three-dimensional gas temperature distributions obtained by a dedicated radiative transfer and photoionisation code, MOCASSIN, against those obtained by the recently-developed Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) plus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Barbara Ercolano , Matthias Gritschneder

We simulate the formation of second-generation stars in young clusters with masses of $10^{5}$ and $10^6\ {\rm M_\odot}$ within $30-100\ {\rm Myr}$ after the formation of clusters. We assume the clusters move through a uniform interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-13 Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Joakim Rosdahl , Francesco Calura , Sareh Ataiee

The EUV photoionizing radiation and FUV dissociating radiation from newly born stars photoevaporate their parental neutral cloud, leading to the formation of dense clumps that could eventually form additional stars. We study the effects of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-24 V. Lora , M. J. Vasconcelos , A. C. Raga , A. Esquivel , A. H. Cerqueira

We have carried out a comprehensive multiwavelength study of Bright-Rimmed Globule TC2 in the Trifid Nebula using the IRAM~30m telescope, the VLA centimeter array and the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). TC2 is one of the very few globules…