Kanjilal, V and Dutta, A and Sharma, P (2021) Growth and structure of multiphase gas in the cloud-crushing problem with cooling. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501 (1). pp. 1143-1159.
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Abstract
We revisit the problem of the growth of dense/cold gas in the cloud-crushing set-up with radiative cooling. The relative motion between the dense cloud and the diffuse medium produces a turbulent boundary layer of mixed gas with a short cooling time. This mixed gas may explain the ubiquity of the range of absorption/emission lines observed in various sources such as the circumgalactic medium and galactic/stellar/active galactic nucleus outflows. Recently, Gronke & Oh showed that the efficient radiative cooling of the mixed gas can lead to continuous growth of the dense cloud. They presented a threshold cloud size for the growth of dense gas that was contradicted by the more recent works of Li et al. & Sparre et al. These thresholds are qualitatively different as the former is based on the cooling time of the mixed gas whereas the latter is based on the cooling time of the hot gas. Our simulations agree with the threshold based on the cooling time of the mixed gas. We argue that the radiative cloud-crushing simulations should be run long enough to allow for the late-time growth of the dense gas due to cooling of the mixed gas but not so long that the background gas cools catastrophically. Moreover, the simulation domain should be large enough that the mixed gas is not lost through the boundaries. While the mixing layer is roughly isobaric, the emissivity of the gas at different temperatures is fundamentally different from an isobaric single-phase steady cooling flow. © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Additional Information: | The copyright of this article belongs to Oxford University Press |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Feb 2021 09:49 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2021 09:49 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68006 |
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