Galaxies (Jan 2022)

A Tail of Two Clumps

  • Alejandro Cristian Raga,
  • Jorge Cantó,
  • Antonio Castellanos-Ramírez,
  • Jorge Ivan Castorena,
  • Liliana Hernández-Martínez,
  • Ary Rodríguez-González,
  • Pedro Rivera-Ortíz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies10010019
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
p. 19

Abstract

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We present two axisymmetric simulations of a high velocity clump in a photoionized region: one for the case of a uniform, low density environment and a second one for the case of a clump first traveling within a high density medium and then emerging into a low density environment. We show that the second scenario results in the production of an axial tail of dense material with a linear velocity vs. position ramp (with zero velocity at the high/low density environment transition). This material comes from a confined bow shock (produced by the clump when it was within the dense cloud) that emerges into the low environmental density region.

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