SUPR
Chemical Evolution in GMC Collisions
Dnr:

NAISS 2024/23-438

Type:

NAISS Small Storage

Principal Investigator:

Chia-Jung Hsu

Affiliation:

Chalmers tekniska högskola

Start Date:

2024-07-03

End Date:

2025-01-01

Primary Classification:

10305: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Allocation

Abstract

Collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) have been proposed as a mechanism to trigger star formation in galaxies. The theory has been considered as a candidate explaining the star formation rate and star formation efficiency. The dense structures formed in the procedure can also be the precursors of mass stars and star clusters. Recently, more and more observations are planned to search the evidences of cloud-cloud collusion from the molecular emission lines, such as SiO. To analyze the signals and interpret the local kinematic/chemical properties, we follow the previous simulation works and set magnetohydrodynamics coupling with astrochemical network to study the chemical evolution during the process. The results can help us estimate the magnetic field, cosmic ray, etc in infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) and thus study the formation of massive stars and star clusters.