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Modelling global disc galaxies is a difficult task which has previously resulted in the small scale physics of the interstellar medium being greatly simplified. In this talk, I compare simulations of galaxies with different ISM properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-05 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a very complex medium which contains the matter needed to form stars and planets. The ISM is in permanent interaction with radiation, turbulence, magnetic and gravitational fields, and accelerated particles.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-07 S Paron

Interstellar space is filled with a dilute mixture of charged particles, atoms, molecules and dust grains, called the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding its physical properties and dynamical behavior is of pivotal importance to many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-18 Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover

The cold interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in the galaxy evolution process. It is the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by these stars, and a sensitive tracer of internal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 Amelie Saintonge , Barbara Catinella

Until recently, simulations that modeled entire galaxies were restricted to an isothermal or fixed 2- or 3-phase interstellar medium (ISM). This obscured the full role of the ISM in shaping the observed galactic-scale star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-28 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan , Jonathan C. Tan

This is a brief review of our understanding of the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) in dwarf galaxies in connection to their star formation activity. What are the dominant phases of the ISM in these objects? How do the properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Alberto D. Bolatto

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a key ingredient in galaxy formation and evolution as it provides the molecular gas reservoir which fuels star formation and supermassive black hole accretion. Yet the ISM is one of the least studied aspects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-23 T. R. Greve

We study influence by models of inter-stellar medium (ISM) on properties of galaxies in cosmological simulations. We examine three models widely used in previous studies. The ISM models impose different equations of state on dense gas.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Shigeki Inoue , Naoki Yoshida

We studied the effect of interstellar gas conditions on global galaxy simulations by considering three different models for the ISM. Our first model included only radiative cooling down to 300 K, our second model added an additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

In this chapter, we give an overview of the major components of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies at a level appropriate for upper level undergraduates or beginning graduate students. We discuss the major constituents of the the ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-14 Adam K. Leroy , Alberto D. Bolatto

We present here the first of a series of papers aimed at better understanding the evolution and properties of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in a galactic context. We perform high resolution, three-dimensional {\sc arepo} simulations of an…

Until recently the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) was simulated using collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE) conditions. However, the ISM is a dynamical system, in which the plasma is naturally driven out of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-15 M. A. de Avillez , D. Breitschwerdt , A. Asgekar , E. Spitoni

The interaction of galaxies with their environment, the Intergalactic Medium (IGM), is an important aspect of galaxy formation. One of the most fundamental, but unanswered questions in the evolution of galaxies is how gas circulates in and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-07 A. Popping , M. Meyer , L. Staveley-Smith , D. Obreschkow , G. I. Jozsa , D. J. Pisano

Over the last decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental for advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These simulations follow the non-linear evolution of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-20 Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Ewald Puchwein

The latest observations of molecular gas and the atomic hydrogen content of local and high-redshift galaxies, coupled with how these correlate with star formation activity, have revolutionized our ideas about how to model star formation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Claudia del P. Lagos , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh

Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics from how galaxies form and evolve to large scale structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-28 Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Arif Babul , Yannick Bahé , Iryna S. Butsky , Ian G. McCarthy

The interstellar medium (ISM) is the material that fills the space between the stars in all galaxies; it is a multi-phase medium in pressure equilibrium, with densities and temperatures covering over 6 orders of magnitude. Although…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Amelie Saintonge

The interstellar medium (ISM) can be thought of as the galactic atmosphere which fills the space between stars. When clouds within the ISM collapse, stars are born. When the stars die, they return their matter to the surrounding gas.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bland-Hawthorn , R. J. Reynolds

The interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies is multiphase and cloudy, with stars forming in the very dense, cold gas found in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs). Simulating the evolution of an entire galaxy, however, is a computational problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Leila C. Powell , Frederic Bournaud , Damien Chapon , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier
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