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Cosmic dust grains are one of the fundamental ingredients of the interstellar medium (ISM). In spite of their small contribution to the total mass budget, dust grains play a significant role in the physical and chemical evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 Angelos Nersesian , Maarten Baes , Suzanne C. Madden

We report the discovery of a complex, density-stratified interstellar medium (ISM) in the star-forming galaxy COS-2987 at $z = 6.81$, revealed by the unprecedented synergy between JWST/NIRSpec IFS and ALMA observations. These observations…

In the first part of this manuscript, I present the results on the properties of the interstellar medium and the stellar content of galaxies at z=0.6, from a representative sample of distant galaxies observed with the long slit spectrograph…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-29 Myriam Rodrigues

As a major interstellar medium, the atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) plays an important role in the galaxy evolution. It provides the ingredient for star formation, and sensitively traces the internal processes and external perturbations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-11 Jing Wang , Xuchen Lin

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…

We develop a new realistic prescription for modeling the stellar feedback, which minimizes any ad hoc assumptions about sub-grid physics. We start with developing high resolution models of the ISM and formulate the conditions required for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin

The study of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the X-rays has entered a golden age with the advent of the X-ray observatories XMM-Newton and Chandra. High-energy resolution allowed to study dust spectroscopic features with unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Elisa Costantini , Lia Corrales

Quenching of star-formation plays a fundamental role in galaxy evolution. This process occurs due to the removal of the cold interstellar medium (ISM) or stabilization against collapse, so that gas cannot be used in the formation of new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-19 Oleh Ryzhov , Michał J. Michałowski , J. Nadolny , J. Hjorth , A. Leśniewska , M. Solar , P. Nowaczyk , C. Gall , T. T. Takeuchi

The Interstellar Medium (ISM) comprises gases at different temperatures and densities, including ionized, atomic, molecular species, and dust particles. The neutral ISM is dominated by neutral hydrogen and has ionization fractions up to 8%.…

The intergalactic medium (IGM) accounts for ~90% of baryons at all epochs and yet its three dimensional distribution in the cosmic web remains mostly unknown. This is so because the only feasible way to observe the bulk of the IGM is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Nicolas Tejos

Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the primary reservoirs of cold, star-forming molecular gas in the Milky Way and similar galaxies, and thus any understanding of star formation must encompass a model for GMC formation, evolution, and…

The interstellar medium (ISM) provides a unique laboratory for highly supersonic, driven hydrodynamics turbulence. We present a theory of such turbulence, confirm it by numerical simulations, and use the results to explain observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislav Boldyrev , Aake Nordlund , Paolo Padoan

We present a method for modelling star-forming clouds that combines two different models of the thermal evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM). In the combined model, where the densities are low enough that at least some part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Matthew R. Bate , Eric R. Keto

Most of a galaxy's mass is located out to hundreds of kiloparsecs beyond its stellar component. This diffuse reservoir of gas, the circumgalactic medium (CGM), acts as the interface between a galaxy and the cosmic web that connects…

We present some recent studies on the physical conditions and the chemistry of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Galactic center region (GCR). Large scale shocks in the context of a bar potential can play a role in explaining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , J. Martin-Pintado , P. de Vicente , A. Fuente

Thanks to their proximity, local starbursts are perfectly suited for high-resolution and sensitivity multiwavelength observations aimed to test our ideas about star formation, evolution of massive stars, physics and chemical evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Aloisi , T. M. Heckman , C. G. Hoopes , C. Leitherer , S. Savaglio , K. R. Sembach

The interstellar medium (ISM) consists of highly ionized and neutral atomic, as well as molecular, components. Knowledge of their distribution is important for tracing the structure and lifecycle of the ISM. Here we determine the properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 W. D. Langer , P. F. Goldsmith , J. L. Pineda

Using a high-resolution simulation of a dwarf galaxy, we quantify the energetic importance of magnetic fields within the different phases of its interstellar medium (ISM) on parsec scales. We show that, whilst overall the magnetic field is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Ryan McGuiness , Rowan J. Smith , David Whitworth

Since molecules are ubiquitous in space, the study of the 'Molecular Universe' could unfold the mystery of the existing Interstellar medium. Star formation is linked to the chemical evolution processes. Thus, an analysis of the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Bratati Bhat

This review describes where we are today in light of the dust and gas properties and their relation to star formation, in low metallicity galaxies of the local universe following recent surveys from sensitive infrared space telescopes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Suzanne C. Madden , Diane Cormier