Koertgen, Bastian, Seifried, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-0368-9160, Banerjee, Robi, Vazquez-Semadeni, Enrique ORCID: 0000-0002-1424-3543 and Zamora-Aviles, Manuel (2016). Supernova feedback in molecular clouds: global evolution and dynamics. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 459 (4). S. 3460 - 3475. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1365-2966
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We use magnetohydrodynamical simulations of converging warm neutral medium flows to analyse the formation and global evolution of magnetized and turbulent molecular clouds subject to supernova feedback from massive stars. We show that supernova feedback alone fails to disrupt entire, gravitationally bound, molecular clouds, but is able to disperse small-sized (similar to 10 pc) regions on time-scales of less than 1 Myr. Efficient radiative cooling of the supernova remnant as well as strong compression of the surrounding gas result in non-persistent energy and momentum input from the supernovae. However, if the time between subsequent supernovae is short and they are clustered, large hot bubbles form that disperse larger regions of the parental cloud. On longer time-scales, supernova feedback increases the amount of gas with moderate temperatures (T a parts per thousand 300-3000 K). Despite its inability to disrupt molecular clouds, supernova feedback leaves a strong imprint on the star formation process. We find an overall reduction of the star formation efficiency by a factor of 2 and of the star formation rate by roughly factors of 2-4.
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-269955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stw824 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 459 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 3460 - 3475 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | OXFORD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1365-2966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/26995 |
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