抄録
Using high resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the evolution of a self-gravitating multi-phase interstellar medium in the central kiloparsec region of a galactic disk. We find that a gravitationally and thermally unstable disk evolves, in a self-stabilizing manner, into a globally quasi-stable disk that consists of cold (T<100 K), dense clumps and filaments surrounded by hot (T>10^4 K), diffuse medium. In the quasi-stable phase where cold and dense clouds are formed, the effective stability parameter, Q, has a. value in the range 2-5. The dynamic range of our multi-phase calculations is 10^6 - 10^7 in both density and temperature. We also succeeded in modeling star formation in the multi-phase ISM with 2 pc resolution. Massive stars formed in the dense, cold clouds are tracked for their life time, and finally explode as SNe.
