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Title:
Photoionizing feedback in star cluster formation
Authors:
Dale, J. E.; Bonnell, I. A.; Clarke, C. J.; Bate, M. R.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH), AB(School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY19 9AJ), AC(Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA), AD(School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 358, Issue 1, pp. 291-304. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
03/2005
Origin:
MNRAS
Astronomy Keywords:
stars: formation, HII regions
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08806.x
Bibliographic Code:
2005MNRAS.358..291D

Abstract

We present the first ever hydrodynamic calculations of star cluster formation that incorporate the effect of feedback from ionizing radiation. In our simulations, the ionizing source forms in the cluster core at the intersection of several dense filaments of inflowing gas. We show that these filaments collimate ionized outflows and suggest such an environmental origin for at least some observed outflows in regions of massive star formation. Our simulations show both positive feedback (i.e. promotion of star formation in neutral gas compressed by expanding HII regions) and negative feedback (i.e. suppression of the accretion flow in to the central regions). We show that the volume filling factor of ionized gas is very different in our simulations from the result from the case where the central source interacted with an azimuthally smoothed gas density distribution. As expected, gas density is the key parameter in determining whether or not clusters are unbound by photoionizing radiation. Nevertheless, we find - on account of the acceleration of a small fraction of the gas to high velocities in the outflows - that the deposition in the gas of an energy that exceeds the binding energy of the cluster is not a sufficient criterion for unbinding the bulk of the cluster mass.

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