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Regulation of Star Formation Rates in Multiphase Galactic Disks: Numerical Tests of the Thermal/Dynamical Equilibrium Model

  • Authors: Chang-Goo Kim, Woong-Tae Kim, and Eve C. Ostriker

Kim, Kim, & Ostriker 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 743 25.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

(a) Density structure in the whole simulation domain of Model QA10x2 at t/ t orb = 2.22, including a large, fragmented, expanding shell produced by a recent SN event. (b) The rectangular section in (a) is enlarged to identify dense clouds ( n > 50 cm −3), outlined by black contours, that formed in a region of converging flow where the shell collides with surrounding gas. The white arrows represent the background velocity field, while the black arrows show the mean velocity of each dense cloud. (c) The section marked in (b) is further enlarged to show internal velocity structure of three selected dense clouds. The color bars (whose range differs from panel to panel) indicate number density in logarithmic scale. The sizes of the arrows outside the boxes in (b) and (c) correspond to 10 km s −1 and 5 km s −1, respectively.

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