Velocity Dispersion and H$α$ emission of Ionized Gas in Star-forming Regions

Evgemii O. Vasiliev, Yuri A. Shchekinov

Published 2024-03-30Version 1

For understanding the nature of gaseous flows in star-forming regions of nearby galaxies it is usually utilized the relation between surface brightness in H$\alpha$ line and velocity dispersion of ionized gas known as ''surface brightness -- velocity dispersion diagram''. Using the three-dimensional gasdynamic simulations we consider the evolution of the synthetic diagrams for supershells driven by multiple supernova explosions in stellar cluster located in the galactic disk. We investigate the shape and structure of the diagrams depending on gaseous density and metallicity, disk scale height values. We show that there are several loci of values typical for young bubbles evolved in dense or rarefied gas at large heights above the disk midplane. We find that the structure of the diagram is depended on age of a supershell and physical conditions of a gas in the disk. We argue that the diagrams obtained for the nearby dwarf galaxies can be interpreted by only using the dynamics of bubbles driven by multiple supernova explosions in low-mass stellar clusters of different age.