Molecular evolution of contracting clouds - Basic methods and initial results

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May 1978

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Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 37, May 1978, p. 1-25.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

89

Chemical Evolution, Hydrogen Clouds, Interstellar Chemistry, Interstellar Gas, Molecular Gases, Nebulae, Clouds, Gas Density, Gas Temperature, Radiative Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics

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The relationship between the dynamics of the interstellar gas and the thermal and chemical effects associated with interstellar molecules and dust is investigated. The evolution of a rather massive isolated initially diffuse cloud under self-gravity is studied, using the equations of hydrodynamics; only radial motions are considered, and the heat, chemical, and radiative-transfer equations are solved simultaneously with the hydrodynamic equations. The relevant chemistry is described along with the thermal model, the radiative-transfer process, and the numerical methods employed. Results for a contracting cloud are discussed in terms of the problem of initial conditions, the dynamical evolution of the cloud, its chemical and thermal evolution, time scales, and column densities. It is shown that the chemical evolution of a massive contracting diffuse cloud is sensitive to such physical properties as temperature and ion abundances, that warm and cool versions of a typical cloud evolve differently, and that the physical origin of this effect is the level of heating due to H2 formation on interstellar dust grains.

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