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We investigate the tidally-induced conversion of barred late-type spirals to Magellanic-type discs with numerical simulations, to establish how the lifetime of lopsidedness (asymmetry) varies with numerical parametrizations. Using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Cameron Yozin , Kenji Bekki

In this work, we explore the idea that substructures like stellar clusters could be formed from the tidal stream produced in galactic minor mergers. We use $N$-body and SPH simulations of satellite galaxies interacting with a larger galaxy.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 D. A. Noreña , J. C. Muñoz-Cuartas , L. F. Quiroga , N. Libeskind

Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), we present CS line maps in five rotational lines ($J_{\rm u}=7, 5, 4, 3, 2$) toward the circumnuclear disk (CND) and streamers of the Galactic Center. Our primary goal is to…

We investigate the role of tidal forces in molecular cloud formation by examining how apparent boundedness, as diagnosed by the classical virial parameter, relates to the actual gravitational state of clouds subject to tidal forces from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 JinWoo Lee , Alexa Saur , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Hui Li

A fundamental prediction of the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmology is the centrally divergent cuspy density profile of dark matter haloes. Density cusps render CDM haloes resilient to tides, and protect dwarf galaxies embedded in them…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-14 Raphaël Errani , Rodrigo Ibata , Julio F. Navarro , Jorge Peñarrubia , Matthew G. Walker

A fraction of dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster contain disk features like bars and spiral arms. Using $N$-body simulations, we investigate the effects of tidal forces on the formation of such disk features in disk dwarf galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 SungWon Kwak , Woong-Tae Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Thomas R. Quinn

We analyse extinction maps of nearby Giant Molecular Clouds to forge a link between driving processes of turbulence and modes of star formation. Our investigation focuses on cloud structure in the column density range above the self…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Rowles , D. Froebrich

We propose that there exists a class of transient sources, "squeezars", which are stars caught in highly eccentric orbits around a massive (m<10^8 Mo) black hole (MBH), whose atypically high luminosity (up to a significant fraction of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tal Alexander , Mark Morris

We developed a three-dimensional 2-level hierarchical cosmological code with a realistic and robust treatment of multi-species non-equilibrium ionization and radiative cooling processes, and use it to investigate primordial star forming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yu Zhang , Michael L. Norman , Peter Anninos , Tom Abel

Tidal Disruption of stars by super massive central black holes from dense star clusters is modeled by high-accuracy direct $N$-body simulation. The time evolution of the stellar tidal disruption rate, the effect of tidal disruption on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Shiyan Zhong , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

It has been suggested that star-forming galaxies may host a substantial, dark reservoir of gas in the form of planetary-mass molecular clouds that are so cold that $\text{H}_{2}$ can condense. Here we investigate the process of tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Arthur G. Suvorov , Mark A. Walker

We investigate the evolution of the tidal field experienced by massive star clusters using cosmological simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies. Clusters in our simulations experience the strongest tidal force in the first few hundred Myr…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-16 Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Stars form predominantly in clusters inside dense clumps of turbulent, magnetized molecular clouds. The typical size and mass of the cluster-forming clumps are \sim 1 pc and \sim 10^2 - 10^3 M_\odot, respectively. Here, we discuss some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

Massive primordial halos exposed to moderate UV backgrounds are the potential birthplaces of supermassive black holes. In such a halo, an initially isothermal collapse will occur, leading to high accretion rates of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-14 M. A. Latif , D. R. G. Schleicher

While N-body simulations testify for a cuspy profile of the central region of the dark matter haloes, observations favor a shallow, cored density profile of the central region of, at least, some spiral galaxies and dwarf spheroidals. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-15 Anton N. Baushev

The tidal disruption of stars in the vicinity of massive black holes is discussed in the context of $\Lambda$-gravity. The latter provides an explanation to the Hubble tension as a possible consequence of two Hubble flows, the local and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-09 A. Stepanian , Sh. Khlghatyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

The volumetric rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) encodes information on the still-unknown demographics of central massive black holes (MBHs) in low-mass galaxies ($\lesssim 10^9$~M$_\odot$). Theoretical TDE rates from model galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-16 Christian H. Hannah , Anil C. Seth , Nicholas C. Stone , Sjoert van Velzen

Recent observations of galaxy mergers inside galaxy cluster environments report high star formation rates in the ejected tidal tails, which point towards currently developing tidal dwarf galaxies. We test whether these dwarf objects could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 Anna Ivleva , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Lucas M. Valenzuela , Klaus Dolag

A large fraction of the gas in the Galaxy is cold, dense, and molecular. If all this gas collapsed under the influence of gravity and formed stars in a local free-fall time, the star formation rate in the Galaxy would exceed that observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Andreas Burkert , Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía

An important issue in the dynamics of neutron star binaries is whether tidal interaction can cause the individual stars to collapse into black holes during inspiral. To understand this issue better, we study the dynamics of a cluster of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Kashif Alvi , Yuk Tung Liu