Radiation Driven Implosion of Molecular Cloud Cores

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2002-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203460v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 338 (2003) 545

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 8 figures (4 figures as jpg files), submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.05737.x

We present the first three-dimensional calculations of Radiation Driven Implosion of Molecular Clouds including self-gravity and ionization. We discuss the effects of initial density perturbations on the dynamics of ionizing globules and show that the onset of gravitational collapse can be significantly delayed for a multiple of the implosion timescale. We demonstrate that Radiation Driven Implosion could be an efficient process for injecting disordered kinetic energy into molecular clouds in the vicinity of massive stars.

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