A Parameter Study of the Dust and Gas Temperature in a Field of Young Stars

Autor:	Urban, Andrea, Evans II, Neal J., Doty, Steven D.
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Astrophysics
Zdroj:	Astrophys.J.698:1341-1356,2009
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/0004-637X/698/2/1341
Popis:	We model the thermal effect of young stars on their surrounding environment in order to understand clustered star formation. We take radiative heating of dust, dust-gas collisional heating, cosmic-ray heating, and molecular cooling into account. Using Dusty, a spherical continuum radiative transfer code, we model the dust temperature distribution around young stellar objects with various luminosities and surrounding gas and dust density distributions. We have created a grid of dust temperature models, based on our modeling with Dusty, which we can use to calculate the dust temperature in a field of stars with various parameters. We then determine the gas temperature assuming energy balance. Our models can be used to make large-scale simulations of clustered star formation more realistic. Comment: 29 pages, 19 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3906 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv