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We study the structural evolution of turbulent molecular clouds under the influence of ionizing radiation emitted from a nearby massive star by performing a high resolution parameter study with the iVINE code. The temperature is taken to be…

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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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Tremblin , E. Audit , V. Minier , N. Schneider

An ionization front (IF) surrounding an H II region is a sharp interface where a cold neutral gas makes transition to a warm ionized phase by absorbing UV photons from central stars. We investigate the instability of a plane-parallel D-type…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim

The role of feedback from massive stars is believed to be a key element in the evolution of molecular clouds. We use high-resolution 3D SPH simulations to explore the dynamical effects of a single O7 star located at the centre of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Walch , A. P. Whitworth , T. Bisbas , R. Wunsch , D. Hubber

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 study the effects of the initial conditions of turbulent molecular clouds on the ionization structure in newly formed H_{ii} regions, using three-dimensional, photon-conserving radiative transfer in a pre-computed density field from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuexing Li , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Tom Abel

Radiative cooling by metals in shocked gas mediates the formation of ionization front instabilities in the galaxy today that are responsible for a variety of phenomena in the interstellar medium, from the morphologies of nebulae to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Whalen , Michael L. Norman

We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Glenn E. Ciolek , S. A. Morton

We study the formation of H2 in the ISM, using a modified version of the astrophysical magnetohydrodynamical code ZEUS-MP that includes a non-equilibrium treatment of the formation and destruction of H2. We examine two different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. C. O. Glover , M. -M. Mac Low

We present radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations aimed at studying evolutionary properties of H\,{\normalsize II} regions in turbulent, magnetised, and collapsing molecular clouds formed by converging flows in the warm neutral medium.…

Ionization front instabilities have long been of interest for their suspected role in a variety of phenomena in the galaxy, from the formation of bright rims and 'elephant trunks' in nebulae to triggered star formation in molecular clouds.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel J. Whalen , Michael L. Norman

Motivated by recent numerical simulations of molecular cloud (MC)evolution, in which the clouds engage in global gravitational contraction, and local collapse events culminate significantly earlier than the global collapse, we investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jesús A. Toalá , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Pedro Colín , Gilberto C. Gómez

We investigate the interplay between the ionization radiation from massive stars and the turbulence inside the surrounding molecular gas thanks to 3D numerical simulations. We used the 3D hydrodynamical code HERACLES to model an initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Tremblin , E. Audit , V. Minier , W. Schmidt , N. Schneider

We study the linear evolution of small perturbations in self-gravitating fluid systems with magnetic fields. We consider wave-like perturbations to nonuniform filamentary and sheet-like hydrostatic equilibria in the presence of a uniform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Curtis S. Gehman , Fred C. Adams , Richard Watkins

We discuss the theory of coupled ionization--dissociation fronts produced when molecular clouds are exposed to $\lambda < 1110$\AA\ radiation from hot stars. A steady, composite structure is developed, which generally includes an ionized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Frank Bertoldi , B. T. Draine

Massive stars influence their parental molecular cloud, and it has long been suspected that the development of hydrodynamical instabilities can compress or fragment the cloud. Identifying such instabilities has proved difficult. It has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-02 Olivier Berné , Núria Marcelino , José Cernicharo

Using 3D MHD simulation with the effects of radiative cooling/heating, chemical reactions, and thermal conduction, we investigate the formation of molecular cloud in the ISM. We consider the formation of molecular cloud by accretion of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Thermal instability (TI) is a trigger mechanism, which can explain the formation of small condensations through some regions of the interstellar clouds. The instability criterion for flat geometry approximations has been investigated in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

We present IFU observations of six emission-line nebulae that surround the central galaxy of cool core clusters. Qualitatively similar nebulae are observed in cool core clusters even when the dynamics and possibly formation and excitation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. A. Hatch , C. S. Crawford , A. C. Fabian

The evolution of a prolate cloud at an Hii boundary is investigated using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). The prolate molecular clouds in our investigation are set with their semi-major axis perpendicular to the radiative direction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Timothy M. Kinnear , Jingqi Miao , Glenn J. White , Simon Goodwin
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