Gent, F.A., Shukurov, A., Fletcher, A. et al. (2 more authors) (2013) The supernova-regulated ISM - I. The multiphase structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 432 (2). pp. 1396-1423. ISSN 0035-8711
Abstract
We simulate the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and stirred by supernovae (SNe), with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters of the solar neighbourhood. Here we describe in detail both numerical and physical aspects of the model, including injection of thermal and kinetic energy by SN explosions, radiative cooling, photoelectric heating and various transport processes. With a three-dimensional domain extending 1 × 1 kpc2 horizontally and 2 kpc vertically (symmetric about the galactic mid-plane), the model routinely spans gas number densities 10−5–102 cm−3, temperatures 10–108 K and local velocities up to 103 km s−1 (with Mach number up to 25). The working numerical resolution of 4 pc has been selected via simulations of a single expanding SN remnant, where we closely reproduce, at this resolution, analytical solutions for the adiabatic and snowplough regimes. The feedback of the halo on the disc cannot be captured in our model where the domain only extends to the height of 1 kpc above the mid-plane. We argue that to reliably model the disc–halo connections would require extending the domain horizontally as well as vertically due to the increasing horizontal scale of the gas flows with height.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in MNRAS ©: 2013 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | hydrodynamics; turbulence; ISM: kinematics and dynamics; ISM: structure; ISM: supernova remnants; galaxies: ISM |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2017 14:38 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2017 14:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt560 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnras/stt560 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122797 |