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STAR FORMATION IN DISK GALAXIES. III. DOES STELLAR FEEDBACK RESULT IN CLOUD DEATH?
| Title: | STAR FORMATION IN DISK GALAXIES. III. DOES STELLAR FEEDBACK RESULT IN CLOUD DEATH? |
| Authors: | Tasker, Elizabeth J. Browse this author | | Wadsley, James Browse this author | | Pudritz, Ralph Browse this author |
| Keywords: | galaxies: ISM | | ISM: clouds | | ISM: structure | | local interstellar matter | | methods: numerical | | stars: formation |
| Issue Date: | 1-Mar-2015 |
| Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
| Journal Title: | Astrophysical Journal |
| Volume: | 801 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page: | 33 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/801/1/33 |
| Abstract: | Stellar feedback, star formation, and gravitational interactions are major controlling forces in the evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). To explore their relative roles, we examine the properties and evolution of GMCs forming in an isolated galactic disk simulation that includes both localized thermal feedback and photoelectric heating. The results are compared with the three previous simulations in this series, which consists of a model with no star formation, star formation but no form of feedback, and star formation with photoelectric heating in a set with steadily increasing physical effects. We find that the addition of localized thermal feedback greatly suppresses star formation but does not destroy the surrounding GMC, giving cloud properties closely resembling the run in which no stellar physics is included. The outflows from the feedback reduce the mass of the cloud but do not destroy it, allowing the cloud to survive its stellar children. This suggests that weak thermal feedback such as the lower bound expected for a supernova may play a relatively minor role in the galactic structure of quiescent Milky-Way-type galaxies, compared to gravitational interactions and disk shear. |
| Rights: | This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. The publisher is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/801/1/33 . |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/60728 |
| Appears in Collections: | 理学院・理学研究院 (Graduate School of Science / Faculty of Science) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: Elizabeth Jane Tasker
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