{ "id": "1409.2242", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-09-08T08:42:54.000Z", "updated": "2014-09-08T08:42:54.000Z", "title": "Model of the expansion of H II region RCW 82", "authors": [ "K. V. Krasnobaev", "R. R. Tagirova", "G. Yu. Kotova" ], "comment": "14 pages, 3 figures", "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal, 786:90 (6pp), 2014", "doi": "10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/90", "categories": [ "astro-ph.GA", "astro-ph.SR" ], "abstract": "This paper aims to resolve the problem of formation of young objects observed in the RCW 82 H {\\small II} region. In the framework of a classical trigger model the estimated time of fragmentation is larger than the estimated age of the H {\\small II} region. Thus the young objects could not have formed during the dynamical evolution of the H {\\small II} region. We propose a new model that helps resolve this problem. This model suggests that the H {\\small II} region RCW 82 is embedded in a cloud of limited size that is denser than the surrounding interstellar medium. According to this model, when the ionization--shock front leaves the cloud it causes the formation of an accelerating dense gas shell. In the accelerated shell, the effects of the Rayleigh--Taylor (R-T) instability dominate and the characteristic time of the growth of perturbations with the observed magnitude of about 3 pc is 0.14 Myr, which is less than the estimated age of the H {\\small II} region. The total time $t_{\\sum}$, which is the sum of the expansion time of the H {\\small II} region to the edge of the cloud, the time of the R-T instability growth, and the free fall time, is estimated as $0.44