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Winds in Star Clusters Drive Kolmogorov Turbulence

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 899, 期 2, 页码 -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ababae

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Interstellar medium; B stars; Star clusters

资金

  1. Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
  2. Simons Foundation Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA)
  3. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) postdoctoral fellowship
  4. NASA through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Chandra X-ray Center [PF7-180166]
  5. Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) postdoctoral fellowship
  6. National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics postdoctoral fellowship [1402480]
  7. Heising-Simons Foundation
  8. Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF132]
  9. NASA [NAS8-03060]
  10. Division Of Astronomical Sciences
  11. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1402480] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Intermediate and massive stars drive fast and powerful isotropic winds that interact with the winds of nearby stars in star clusters and the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). Wind-ISM collisions generate astrospheres around these stars that contain hotT similar to 10(7)K gas that adiabatically expands. As individual bubbles expand and collide they become unstable, potentially driving turbulence in star clusters. In this Letter we use hydrodynamic simulations to model a densely populated young star cluster within a homogeneous cloud to study stellar wind collisions with the surrounding ISM. We model a mass-segregated cluster of 20 B-type young main-sequence stars with masses ranging from 3 to 17M. We evolve the winds for similar to 11 kyr and show that wind-ISM collisions and overlapping wind-blown bubbles around B-stars mix the hot gas and ISM material, generating Kolmogorov-like turbulence on small scales early in its evolution. We discuss how turbulence driven by stellar winds may impact the subsequent generation of star formation in the cluster.

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