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The structure of radiative shock waves III. The model grid for partially ionized hydrogen gas

Journal

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 368, Issue 3, Pages 901-911

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EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010064

Keywords

shock waves; hydrodynamics; radiative transfer; stellar atmospheres

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The grid of the models of radiative shock waves propagating through partially ionized hydrogen gas with temperature 3000 K less than or equal to T-1 less than or equal to 8000 K and density 10(-12) gmcm(-3) less than or equal to rho (1) less than or equal to 10(-9) gmcm(-3) is computed for shock velocities 20 km s(-1) less than or equal to U-1 less than or equal to 90 km s(-1). The fraction of the total energy of the shock wave irreversibly lost due to radiation flux ranges from 0.3 to 0.8 for 20 km s(-1) less than or equal to U-1 less than or equal to 70 km s(-1). The postshock gas is compressed mostly due to radiative cooling in the hydrogen recombination zone and final compression ratios are within 1 < (N)/rho (1) less than or similar to 10(2), depending mostly on the shock velocity U-1. The preshock gas temperature affects the shock wave structure due to the equilibrium ionization of the unperturbed hydrogen gas, since the rates of postshock relaxation processes are very sensitive to the number density of hydrogen ions ahead the discontinuous jump. Both the increase of the preshock gas temperature and the decrease of the preshock gas density lead to lower postshock compression ratios. The width of the shock wave decreases with increasing upstream velocity while the postshock gas is still partially ionized and increases as soon as the hydrogen is fully ionized. All shock wave models exhibit stronger upstream radiation flux emerging from the preshock outer boundary in comparison with downstream radiation flux emerging in the opposite direction from the postshock outer boundary. The difference between these fluxes depends on the shock velocity and ranges from 1% to 16% for 20 km s(-1) less than or equal to U-1 less than or equal to 60 km s(-1). The monochromatic radiation flux transported in hydrogen lines significantly exceeds the flux of the background continuum and all shock wave models demonstrate the hydrogen lines in emission.

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