Before the first supernova : combined effects of H II regions and winds on molecular clouds
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21/07/2014Grant ID
ST/J001651/1
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Abstract
We model the combined effects of photoionization and momentum-driven winds from O-stars on molecular clouds spanning a parameter space of initial conditions. The dynamical effects of the winds are very modest. However, in the lower mass clouds, they influence the morphologies of the H II regions by creating 10-pc-scale central cavities. The inhomogeneous structures of the model giant molecular clouds (GMCs) make them highly permeable to photons, ionized gas and supernova ejecta, and the leaking of ionized gas in particular strongly affects their evolution, reducing the effectiveness of feedback. Nevertheless, feedback is able to expel large fractions of the mass of the lower escape velocity clouds. Its impact on star formation is more modest, decreasing final star formation efficiencies by 10-20 per cent, and the rate of change of the star formation efficiency per freefall time by about one third. However, the clouds still form stars substantially faster than observed GMCs.
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Dale , J E , Ngoumou , J , Ercolano , B & Bonnell , I A 2014 , ' Before the first supernova : combined effects of H II regions and winds on molecular clouds ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 442 , no. 1 , pp. 694-712 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu816
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Peer reviewed
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0035-8711Type
Journal article
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© 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
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IAB acknowledges funding from the European Research Council for the FP7 ERC advanced grant project ECOGAL. JN would like to acknowledge the German Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFGPR 569/9-1.Collections
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