Hydrodynamical simulations of a cloud of interacting gas fragments

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2003-01-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301136v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 340 (2003) 841-850

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Animations of calculations are available, contact D. Gittins if inter

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06339.x

We present a full hydrodynamical investigation of a system of self-contained, interacting gas `cloudlets'. Calculations are performed using SPH, and cloudlets are allowed to collide, dissipate kinetic energy, merge and undergo local gravitational collapse. The numerical feasibility of such a technique is explored, and the resolution requirements examined. We examine the effect of the collision time and the velocity field on the timescale for evolution of the system, and show that almost all star formation will be confined to dense regions much smaller than the entire cloud. We also investigate the possibility, discussed by various authors, that such a system could lead to a power-law IMF by a process of repeated cloudlet coagulation, finding that in fact the inter-cloudlet collisions occur at too high a Mach number for merging to play an important part.

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