Misc,
Feedback in Clouds II: UV Photoionisation and the first supernova in a massive cloud
(2016)cite arxiv:1607.05487Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS.
Abstract
Molecular cloud structure is regulated by stellar feedback in various forms.
Two of the most important feedback processes are UV photoionisation and
supernovae from massive stars. However, the precise response of the cloud to
these processes, and the interaction between them, remains an open question. In
particular, we wish to know under which conditions the cloud can be dispersed
by feedback, which in turn can give us hints as to how feedback regulates the
star formation inside the cloud. We perform a suite of radiative
magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a 10^5 solar mass cloud with embedded
sources of ionising radiation and supernovae, including multiple supernovae and
a hypernova model. A UV source corresponding to 10% of the mass of the cloud is
required to disperse the cloud, suggesting that the star formation efficiency
should be on the order of 10%. A single supernova is unable to significantly
affect the evolution of the cloud. However, energetic hypernovae and multiple
supernovae are able to add significant quantities of momentum to the cloud,
approximately 10^43 g cm/s of momentum per 10^51 ergs of supernova energy.
This is on the lower range of estimates in other works, since dense gas clumps
that remain embedded inside the HII region cause rapid cooling in the supernova
blast. We argue that supernovae alone are unable to regulate star formation in
molecular clouds, and that strong pre-supernova feedback is required to allow
supernova blastwaves to propagate efficiently into the interstellar medium
