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Formation of cold filaments from colliding superbubbles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2014

Evangelia Ntormousi
Affiliation:
University Observatory Munich, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany email: eva.ntormousi@cea.fr Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1 85748 Garching Service d'Astrophysique, CEA/DSM/IRFU Orme des Merisiers, Bat 709 Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191France
Katharina Fierlinger
Affiliation:
University Observatory Munich, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany email: eva.ntormousi@cea.fr Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2 D-85748 Garching
Andreas Burkert
Affiliation:
University Observatory Munich, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany email: eva.ntormousi@cea.fr Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1 85748 Garching Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2 D-85748 Garching
Fabian Heitsch
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255
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Abstract

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We present results from numerical simulations of expanding and colliding supershells. These large-scale spherical shocks, created by the combined feedback from several OB stars, are unstable to a number of hydrodynamical instabilities, so they quickly fragment into cold and highly structured clumps. A collision between two large shells can organize these small clumps into very filamentary structures, of tens of parsecs length and less than a parsec thick. In simulations where the flow of stellar material is followed with a tracer quantity, cold structures practically do not contain any enriched material from the OB associations at the time of their creation. In this context then, the clumps are created almost exclusively out of diffuse ISM material, containing almost no wind or supernova matter. Although the mechanism presented here is possibly not the only route for filament creation, this predicted property may help identify regions of sequential star formation.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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