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Modeling the dust and gas temperatures near young stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Andrea Urban  and
Neal J. Evans II
Andrea Urban
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA email: aurban@astro.as.utexas.edu.
Neal J. Evans II
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA email: aurban@astro.as.utexas.edu.
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Abstract

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As young stars form, they interact with their environment in many ways. We study the radiative interaction of a young star with its surrounding cluster environment. The change in gas temperature caused by a forming star can trigger the formation or inhibit the growth of nearby star forming cores. We calculate the gas temperature around a single star by balancing the dust-gas collisional heating, molecular cooling, and cosmic ray heating rates for a grid of models with various luminosities and density distributions. In the future, this work can be used in large-scale simulations of clustered star formation to study the effect of using a gas temperature which depends not only on density, but also on radiative environment.

Keywords

stars: formationmethods: numerical
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S237: Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM , August 2006 , pp. 481
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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