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HII Regions in hydrostatic balance between gas pressure, radiation pressure and gravity
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy.
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Number of Authors: 52015 (English)In: Revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica, ISSN 0185-1101, Vol. 51, no 1, p. 27-34Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We study the solutions of a modified version of the isothermal Lane-Emden equation, which incorporates the effect of the (owtwards directed) radiation pressure resulting from photoionizations. These solutions are relevant for HIT regions around a cluster with over approximate to 500 O stars, which can photoionize gas out to approximate to 200 root 10 cm(-3)/n(0) pc (where n(0) is the central gas density), where the effects of the self-gravity and the radiation pressure become important. We find that the solutions have a transition from a gravity dominated regime (in which the solutions converge at large radii to the non-singular, isothermal sphere solution) to a radiation pressure dominated regime (in which the density diverges at a finite radius) for central HIT region densities above n(crit) = 100 cm(-3). We argue that the high central density, radiation pressure dominated solutions will not occur in most astrophysically relevant situations, because of the absence of a possible confining environment with a high enough pressure.

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2015. Vol. 51, no 1, p. 27-34
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hydrodynamics, ISM: evolution, ISM: kinematics and dynamics, ISM: HIT regions, stars: formation
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-176223ISI: 000352521100003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-176223DiVA, id: diva2:1415306
Available from: 2020-03-18 Created: 2020-03-18 Last updated: 2022-03-07Bibliographically approved

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