Monday, September 10, 2012

1209.1512 (Tim J. Harries et al.)

Radiation hydrodynamics simulations of massive star formation using Monte Carlo radiation transfer    [PDF]

Tim J. Harries, Tom J. Haworth, David Acreman
We present a radiation hydrodynamics simulation of the formation of a massive star using a Monte Carlo treatment for the radiation field. We find that strong, high speed bipolar cavities are driven by the radiation from the protostar, and that accretion occurs stochastically from a circumstellar disc. We have computed spectral energy distributions and images at each timestep, which may in future be used to compare our models with photometric, spectroscopic, and interferometric observations of young massive stellar objects.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1512

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