Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-10-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
15 pages, 17 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
We use the three-dimensional Athena ionizing radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (IRMHD) code to simulate blister-type HII regions driven by stars on the edge of magnetized gas clouds. We compare these to simulations of spherical HII regions where the star is embedded deep within a cloud, and to non-magnetized simulations of both types, in order to compare their ability to drive turbulence and influence star formation. We find that magnetized blister HII regions can be very efficient at injecting energy into clouds. This is partly a magnetic effect: the magnetic energy added to a cloud by an HII region is comparable to or larger than the kinetic energy, and magnetic fields can also help collimate the ejected gas, increasing its energy yield. As a result of these effects, a blister HII region expanding into a cloud with a magnetic field perpendicular to its edge injects twice as much energy by 5 Myr as a non-magnetized blister HII region driven by a star of the same luminosity. Blister HII regions are also more efficient at injecting kinetic energy than spherical HII regions, due to the recoil provided by escaping gas, but not by as much as predicted by some analytic approximations.
Gendelev Leo
Krumholz Mark R.
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