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This study is motivated by recent observations on ubiquitous interstellar density filaments and guided by modern theories of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. The interstellar turbulence shapes the observed density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Siyao Xu , Suoqing Ji , A. Lazarian

It has long been suggested that shocks might play an important role in altering the form of the interstellar medium (ISM). Shocks enhance gas density and sufficiently dense regions may become self gravitating. Potential star forming clouds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. V. Anathpindika

The objective of this paper is to help shedding some light on the nature and the properties of the cold structures formed via thermal instability in the magnetized atomic interstellar medium. To this end, we searched for clumps formed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Adriana Gazol , Marco Villagran

In order to study chromospheric magnetosonic wave propagation including, for the first time, the effects of ion-neutral interactions in the partially ionized solar chromosphere, we have developed a new multi-fluid computational model,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yana G. Maneva , Alejandro A. Laguna , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

The diffuse medium in and around galaxies can exist in a multi-phase state: small, cold gas clouds contributing significantly to the total mass embedded in pressure equilibrium with a hotter, more diffuse volume-filling component. Modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Rainer Weinberger , Lars Hernquist

Large-scale coronal plasma evolutions can be adequately described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. However, full multi-dimensional MHD simulations require substantial computational resources. Given the low plasma $\beta$ in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yuhao Zhou , Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens

The numerical studies of the interplanetary coupling between multiple magnetic clouds (MCs) are continued by a 2.5-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model in the heliospheric meridional plane. The interplanetary direct collision…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-03 Ming Xiong , Huinan Zheng , Shui Wang

Turbulent diffuse molecular clouds can exhibit complicated morphologies caused by the interactions among radiation, chemistry, fluids, and fields. We performed full 3D simulations for turbulent diffuse molecular interstellar media,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Nannan Yue , Lile Wang , Thomas Bisbas , Donghui Quan , Di Li

In nearby star-forming clouds, amplification and dissipation of the magnetic field are known to play crucial roles in the star-formation process. The star-forming environment varies from place to place and era to era in galaxies. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Koki Higuchi , Masahiro N. Machida , Hajime Susa

We have performed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the collapse and fragmentation of molecular cloud cores using a new algorithm for MHD within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, that enforces the zero magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

Waves and shocks traveling through the solar chromospheric plasma are influenced by its partial ionization and weak collisional coupling, and may become susceptible to multi-fluid effects, similar to interstellar shock waves. In this study,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente

One of the key problems in star formation research is to determine the role of magnetic fields. Starting from the atomic inter-cloud medium (ICM) which has density nH ~ 1 per cubic cm, gas must accumulate from a volume several hundred pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua-bai Li , C. Darren Dowell , Alyssa Goodman , Roger Hildebrand , Giles Novak

We present an analysis of the relationship between the orientation of magnetic fields and filaments that form in 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of cluster-forming, turbulent molecular cloud clumps. We examine simulated cloud clumps with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz , Helen Kirk

Observational evidence from local star-forming regions mandates that star formation occurs shortly after, or even during, molecular cloud formation. Models of the formation of molecular clouds in large-scale converging flows have identified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Adam Frank , Fabian Heitsch

We analyze the evaporation and condensation of spherical and cylindrical HI clouds of the cold neutral medium surrounded by the warm neutral medium. Because the interstellar medium including those two phases is well described as a thermally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro Nagashima , Hiroshi Koyama , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

HI observations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) indicate, that they are interacting with their ambient medium. Even clouds located in the very outer Galactic halo or the intergalactic space seem to interact with their ambient medium. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. Konz , C. Bruens , G. T. Birk

The transport of magnetic flux to outside of collapsing molecular clouds is a required step to allow the formation of stars. Although ambipolar diffusion is often regarded as a key mechanism for that, it has been recently argued that it may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , R. Santos-Lima , A. Lazarian , M. R. M. Leão , D. Falceta-Gonçalves , G. Kowal

We study the formation of giant dense cloud complexes and of stars within them by means of SPH numerical simulations of the mildly supersonic collision of gas streams (``inflows'') in the warm neutral medium (WNM). The resulting…

We present a set of numerical simulations addressing the effects of magnetic field strength and orientation on the flow-driven formation of molecular clouds. Fields perpendicular to the flows sweeping up the cloud can efficiently prevent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 F. Heitsch , J. M. Stone , L. W. Hartmann

Cold ($T\sim 10^{4} \ \mathrm{K}$) gas is very commonly found in both galactic and cluster halos. There is no clear consensus on its origin. Such gas could be uplifted from the central galaxy by galactic or AGN winds. Alternatively, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-10 Suoqing Ji , S. Peng Oh , Michael McCourt