期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 407, 期 3, 页码 1963-1971出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17045.x
关键词
hydrodynamics; instabilities; stars: formation; stars: winds; outflows; HII regions; ISM: structure
资金
- DOE
- European Community [MEIF-CT-2006-039802]
- European Commission [MRTN-CT-2006-035890]
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic [AV0Z10030501]
- Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [LC06014]
- STFC [PP/E000967/1]
We study analytically the development of gravitational instability in an expanding shell having finite thickness. We consider three models for the radial density profile of the shell: (i) an analytic uniform-density model, (ii) a semi-analytic model obtained by numerical solution of the hydrostatic equilibrium equation and (iii) a 3D hydrodynamic simulation. We show that all three profiles are in close agreement, and this allows us to use the first model to describe fragments in the radial direction of the shell. We then use non-linear equations describing the time-evolution of a uniform oblate spheroid to derive the growth rates of shell fragments having different sizes. This yields a dispersion relation which depends on the shell thickness, and hence on the pressure confining the shell. We compare this dispersion relation with the dispersion relation obtained using the standard thin-shell analysis, and show that, if the confining pressure is low, only large fragments are unstable. On the other hand, if the confining pressure is high, fragments smaller than predicted by the thin-shell analysis become unstable. Finally, we compare the new dispersion relation with the results of 3D hydrodynamic simulations, and show that the two are in good agreement.
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