Physical processes in the ISM

Cloudy simulations of PDRs, XDRs, and the diffuse ISM

Not scheduled

20m

MPE

contributed talk

Speaker

Gary Ferland (Univ of Kentucky)

Description

The 2013 release of the plasma simulation code Cloudy, described in arXiv:1302.4485, includes significantly improved gas and grain physics.  I compare these predictions with existing models of a variety of objects, and "universal" fitting formulate for gas cooling rates.  Large differences are present.