• Title of article

    The effect of particle number in N-body simulations of the formation of giant molecular clouds

  • Author/Authors

    Tong-jie، نويسنده , , Zhang and Guo-xuan، نويسنده , , Song and Zhi-liang، نويسنده , , Yang and Li، نويسنده , , Chen and Bao-zhou، نويسنده , , Zhang and Nan، نويسنده , , Li and Jian-hua، نويسنده , , Cui، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    276
  • To page
    284
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we study the effect of particle number in the N-body simulation of the formation of giant molecular clouds. The result shows that in the case of formation by aggregation of “unit” clouds, if we take the mean density of the unit clouds to be a constant (or their effective radius to be proportional to the cubic roots of their mass), then the disruption rate of the GMCs will be independent of the initial number of unit clouds.
  • Keywords
    ISM: clouds—ISM: evolution—Methods: N-body simulation
  • Journal title
    Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Record number

    2263224