Star-forming Regions in Massive Star-forming Regions Ash Danehkar Eureka Scientific, Inc., Oakland, CA 94602, USA [email protected] Collaborators: Sally Oey, and Will Gray IAU Symposium 373: Resolving the Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies. 9{11 August 2022 Image Credit: Hui Yang, Illinois & NASA/ESA
Formation 2 Outline Superwinds and Superbubbles – Evidence for Cool Superwinds (ALMA and VLA observations) Superwind Theory – Radiative Cooling Functions Hydrodynamic Simulations Superwind Modes – Typical H II Regions – Ultra-compact H II Regions (UC-HII) Photoionization Models – Collisional Ionization (CIE) vs. Non-equilibrium Ionization (NEI) Future Plans – Radiative Transfer Implementation Summary
Formation 14 Superwind Modes: Ultra-compact H II Regions (Danehkar, in preparation) Typical H II regions – Cluster radius ⪎ 1 pc – Ambient density ⪍ 103 cm{3 Compact H II regions – Cluster radius ~ 0.1 pc – Ambient density ~ 103 cm{3 Ultra-compact H II regions – Cluster radius ~ 0.01 pc – Ambient density ~ 104 cm{3 Hyper-compact H II regions – Cluster radius ~ 0.001 pc – Ambient density ~ 105 cm{3 Olivier + 2021 Compact & Ultra-compact H II Regions Evolved H II Regions
Formation 21 Future Plans: Radiative Transfer Implementation of a Radiative Transfer unit Improvement of radiative cooling and photo-heating Stellar flux at a given distance (e.g. Klassen + 2014) Radiation Pressure: Simulations hosted on https://galacticwinds.github.io/superwinds/ Included in MAIHEM RT unit Optical Depth:
Formation 22 Summary Superwind Theory – Adiabatic Model without radiative cooling (fluid solutions by Chevalier & Clegg 85) – Radiative Cooling Model (semi-analytic solutions by Silich+ 2004) Hydrodynamic Simulations – MAIHEM Cooling & Chemistry Package: Radiative Cooling + Photo-Heating (Gray + 2019) – Radiative Cooling in H II regions (Danehkar, Oey, Gray, 2021, ApJ 921, 91) Colliosinal Ionization (CIE) vs. Non-equilibrium Ionization (NEI) – CIE (steady state), Danehkar et al. 2021, ApJ 921, 91 – NEI (time-dependent) → C IV & O VI enhancements, Danehkar, et al. 2022 submitted Future Plans – Hydrodynamic Simulations of Ultra-compact H II regions (Danehkar+ in preparation) • Ambient density ~ 103{105 cm{3 higher than 1-103 cm{3 in typical H II regions • Cluster radius ~ 0.02–0.2 pc smaller than ~ 1 pc in typical H II regions – Implementation of a Radiative Transfer unit • Improving photoionization calculations + radiative pressures