The dynamics and stability of radiatively driven gas clouds. I - Plane-parallel slabs

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Nov 1979

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 233, no. 3, Nov. 1, 1979, p. 816-830.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Dynamic Models, Dynamic Stability, Gas Dynamics, Nebulae, Quasars, Radiative Transfer, Density Distribution, Gas Density, Hydrodynamics, Radiation Pressure, Slabs

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A combination of numerical and analytical techniques has been used to investigate the dynamics and stability of optically thin plane-parallel radiatively driven slabs of gas confined by the thermal gas pressure of a high-temperature low-density medium. Scaling laws allow the individual model 'clouds' to be characterized by a single free parameter, chi, a normalized column density which measures the strength of the acceleration due to radiation pressure relative to that due to thermal gas pressure. It is found that these clouds are stable and coherently accelerated only when chi is small. In this regime a simple slab model is constructed which accurately reproduces the more complex gasdynamic results. The low-chi clouds are marginally able to reach the high velocities seen in the atmospheres of quasi-stellar objects, but only if their motion is subsonic with respect to the external confining medium. This implies either that the medium is extremely hot and tenuous or that it is moving outward with the clouds.

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