Evaporation and condensation of spherical interstellar clouds. Self-consistent models with saturated heat conduction and cooling

Details Evaporation and condensation of spherical interstellar clouds. Self-consistent models with saturated heat conduction and cooling Evaporation and condensation of spherical interstellar clouds. Self-consistent models with saturated heat conduction and cooling

2007-09-05

arxiv.org/abs/0709.0623v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 24 figures, accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20054187

Shortened version: The fate of IS clouds embedded in a hot tenuous medium depends on whether the clouds suffer from evaporation or whether material condensates onto them. Analytical solutions for the rate of evaporative mass loss from an isolated spherical cloud embedded in a hot tenuous gas are deduced by Cowie & McKee (1977). In order to test the validity of the analytical results for more realistic IS conditions the full hydrodynamical equations must be treated. Therefore, 2D numerical simulations of the evolution of IS clouds %are performed with different internal density structures and surrounded by a hot plasma reservoir. Self-gravity, interstellar heating and cooling effects and heat conduction by electrons are added. Classical thermal conductivity of a fully ionized hydrogen plasma and saturated heat flux are considered. Using pure hydrodynamics and classical heat flux we can reproduce the analytical results. Heat flux saturation reduces the evaporation rate by one order of magnitude below the analytical value. The evolution changes totally for more realistic conditions when interstellar heating and cooling effects stabilize the self-gravity. Evaporation then turns into condensation, because the additional energy by heat conduction can be transported away from the interface and radiated off efficiently from the cloud's inner parts. I.e. that the saturated heat flux consideration is inevitable for IS clouds embedded in hot tenuous gas. Various consequences are discussed in the paper.

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