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Silich, Sergiy; Tenorio-Tagle, Guillermo; Muñoz-Tuñon, C.
Bibliographical reference
Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 187-188
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2007
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Description
This contribution to the IV Korea-Mexico meeting deals with the
hydrodynamics of the matter reinserted within super star clusters (SSCs)
by both stellar winds and supernova explosions, results recently printed
in The Astrophysical Journal (Silich et al. 2007). The motivation of
such a project arose from the persistent presence of the small mass and
compact HII regions that sit right on top of many massive and compact
SSCs, from which one expects a large mechanical energy power. The data
used for our calculations appear only recently (see Smith et al. 2006)
for the massive and compact SSC M82-A1. We presented in our paper the
calculated flow, derived through analytical and semi-analytical methods,
which led to almost identical results. We have found out that the only
way of accommodating a compact HII region (4.5 pc in radius, in the case
of M82-A1) on top of a 6.3 Myr old and massive (> 10^6 M_{&sun;})
SSC with a half light radius of 3 pc, requires of two assumptions: a
very low heating efficiency (< 10%) within the cluster, what leads to
a bimodal solution (see Tenorio-Tagle et al. 2007) and a high pressure
in the surrounding medium.