Gas clump formation via thermal instability in high-redshift dwarf galaxy mergers
Gas clump formation via thermal instability in high-redshift dwarf galaxy mergers
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高红移矮星系合并中热不稳定性导致气体团块的形成
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/sty122
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Nagamine Kentaro
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作者:
Arata Shohei;Yajima Hidenobu;Nagamine Kentaro
Star formation in high-redshift dwarf galaxies is a key to understand early galaxy evolution in the early Universe. Using the three-dimensional hydrodynamics codegizmo, we study the formation mechanism of cold, high-density gas clouds in interacting dwarf galaxies with halo masses of ∼3 × 107M⊙, which are likely to be the formation sites of early star clusters. Our simulations can resolve both the structure of interstellar medium on small scales of ≲ 0.1 pc and the galactic disc simultaneously. We find that the cold gas clouds form in the post-shock region via thermal instability due to metal-line cooling, when the cooling time is shorter than the galactic dynamical time. The mass function of cold clouds shows almost a power-law initially with an upper limit of thermally unstable scale. We find that some clouds merge into more massive ones with ≳104M⊙within ∼ 2 Myr. Only the massive cold clouds with ≳ 103M⊙can keep collapsing due to gravitational instability, resulting in the formation of star clusters. We find that the clump formation is more efficient in the prograde–prograde merger than the prograde–retrograde case due to the difference in the degree of shear flow. In addition, we investigate the dependence of cloud mass function on metallicity and H2abundance, and show that the cases with low metallicities (≲10−2Z⊙) or high H2abundance (≳10−3) cannot form massive cold clouds with ≳103M⊙.
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64.8
作者:
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通讯作者:
A. Fabian;R. Johnstone;J. Sanders;C. Conselice;C. S. Crawford;J. Gallagher;E. I. O. Astronomy;Cambridge;U. Nottingham;U. Wisconsin
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发表时间:
2014
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1086/338978
发表时间:
2001-01
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.3847/1538-4357/aa82b5
发表时间:
2017
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
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作者:
Yajima Hidenobu;Nagamine Kentaro;Zhu Qirong;Khochfar Sadegh;Vecchia Claudio Dalla
通讯作者:
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发表时间:
2006
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作者:
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