Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-10-21
Astrophys.J.698:1341-1356,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
29 pages, 19 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/698/2/1341
We model the thermal effect of young stars on their surrounding environment in order to understand clustered star formation. We take radiative heating of dust, dust-gas collisional heating, cosmic-ray heating, and molecular cooling into account. Using Dusty, a spherical continuum radiative transfer code, we model the dust temperature distribution around young stellar objects with various luminosities and surrounding gas and dust density distributions. We have created a grid of dust temperature models, based on our modeling with Dusty, which we can use to calculate the dust temperature in a field of stars with various parameters. We then determine the gas temperature assuming energy balance. Our models can be used to make large-scale simulations of clustered star formation more realistic.
Doty Steven D.
Evans II Neal. J.
Urban Andrea
No associations
LandOfFree
A Parameter Study of the Dust and Gas Temperature in a Field of Young Stars does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with A Parameter Study of the Dust and Gas Temperature in a Field of Young Stars, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and A Parameter Study of the Dust and Gas Temperature in a Field of Young Stars will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-210378