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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 532, 期 2, 页码 980-993出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/308594
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instabilities; ISM : clouds; ISM : molecules; shock waves; supernova remnants
We investigate the propagation of a shock wave into a warm neutral medium and a cold neutral medium by one-dimensional hydrodynamic calculations with detailed treatment of thermal and chemical processes. Our main result shows that thermal instability inside the shock-compressed layer produces a geometrically thin, dense layer in which a large amount of hydrogen molecules are formed. Linear stability analysis suggests that this thermally collapsed layer will fragment into small molecular cloudlets. We expect that frequent compression due to supernova explosions, stellar winds, spiral density waves, etc., in the Galaxy causes the interstellar medium to be occupied by these small molecular cloudlets.
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