Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-05-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages text, LaTeX/AASTeX (aaspp4); 10 figures; accepted by ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/304408
High-resolution simulations of the cooling regions of spherically symmetric supernova remnants demonstrate a strong radiative instability. This instability, whose presence is dependent on the shock velocity, causes large-amplitude fluctuations in the shock velocity. The fluctuations begin almost immediately after the radiative phase begins (upon shell formation) if the shock velocity lies in the unstable range; they last until the shock slows to speeds less than approximately 130 km/s. We find that shock-velocity fluctuations from the reverberations of waves within the remnant are small compared to those due to the instability. Further, we find (in plane-parallel simulations) that advected inhomogeneities from the external medium do not interfere with the qualitative nature of the instability-driven fluctuations. Large-amplitude inhomogeneities may alter the phases of shock-velocity fluctuations, but do not substantially reduce their amplitudes.
Chernoff David F.
Kimoto Paul A.
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