Bibcode
DOI
Tenorio-Tagle, G.; Palous, J.; Franco, J.; Silich, S. A.
Bibliographical reference
Astrophysical Journal v.468, p.722
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1996
Citations
57
Refereed citations
50
Description
We present three-dimensional numerical calculations of superbubbles
evolving in a two-component interstellar medium composed of small
diffuse clouds and a low-density intercloud medium. Cold H I clouds with
internal densities n ˜ 10 cm-3 and radii Rcl
= 3-5 pc were assumed to be embedded in a warm plane-stratified
intercloud medium. The fraction of the total gas mass in clouds ranges
between 0 and 0.5, whereas the cloud volume filling factor does not
exceed 10%. The calculations determine the role played by dynamic
disruption of clouds and by thermal evaporation from both the cold shell
and the cloudy medium. It is found that mass loading from either
disrupted or evaporated clouds dominates the mass input rate into the
cavity, and the mass evaporated from the shell is important only at
early times. The effects of differential galactic rotation, the
gravitational field of the disk, and the location of the OB associations
in the Galaxy are included also. The main properties of the giant
remnants (energetics, morphology, total and X-ray luminosity, etc.) are
estimated.