Simulating the lifecycle of molecular Clouds (SILCC)

The SILCC project aims at investigating the processes in the interstellar medium with a focus on the formation of molecular clouds, the formation of stars and the destruction of clouds due to stellar feedback processes like radiation, stellar winds, and supernovae. This international collaboration uses hydrodynamical simulations of a prepresentative part of the galactic disk in a stratified box. The simulations include chemical processes, various flavours of supernova feedback, stellar winds, radiation, and cosmic rays. The project page is here. The two main papers of the project are

• Walch et al. 2015, MNRAS 454, 238
• Girichidis et al. 2016, MNRAS 456, 3432

A selection of the data is publicly available at the SILCC data website, hosted at the Max-Planck Computing and Data Facility in Garching (MPCDF). An expample video for mixed driving at Kennicutt-Schmidt star formation rate is shown in the following movie, the list of all available movies is below.

other video formats avi (44MB), mov (7MB)

The names of the movies follow the naming convention of the two papers.

videos with 25 fps