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Recent observations of ram pressure stripped spiral galaxies in clusters revealed details of the stripping process, i.e., the truncation of all interstellar medium (ISM) phases and of star formation (SF) in the disk, and multiphase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Roediger , M. Brüggen , M. S. Owers , H. Ebeling , M. Sun

We first present chemodynamical simulations to investigate how stellar winds of massive stars influence early dynamical and chemical evolution of forming globular clusters (GCs). In our numerical models, GCs form in turbulent,high-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

We numerically model fragmentation of a gravitationally unstable gaseous disc under conditions that may be appropriate for the formation of the young massive stars observed in the central parsec of our Galaxy. In this study, we adopt a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Nayakshin , Jorge Cuadra , Volker Springel

Galactic disks consist of both stars and gas. The gas is more dynamically responsive than the stars, and strongly nonlinear structures and velocities can develop in the ISM even while stellar surface density perturbations remain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Recent observations indicate that the progenitors of globular clusters (GCs) at high redshifts had high average stellar surface densities above $10^5\, \mathrm{M}_\odot\, \mathrm{pc}^{-2}$. The internal structure and kinematics of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 Natalia Lahén , Thorsten Naab , Antti Rantala , Christian Partmann

Star formation in galaxies is regulated by the heating and cooling in the interstellar medium. In particular, the processing of molecular gas into stars will depend strongly on the ratio of gas heating to gas cooling in the neutral gas…

We use the Arepo moving mesh code to simulate the evolution of molecular clouds exposed to a harsh environment similar to that found in the galactic center (GC), in an effort to understand why the star formation efficiency (SFE) of clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Erik Bertram , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Ralf S. Klessen

We introduce the star formation and Supernova (SN) feedback model of the SATIN (Simulating AGNs Through ISM with Non-Equilibrium Effects) project to simulate the evolution of the star forming multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) of entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Rebekka Bieri , Thorsten Naab , Sam Geen , Jonathan P. Coles , Rüdiger Pakmor , Stefanie Walch

We present a numerical study of the evolution of molecular clouds, from their formation by converging flows in the warm ISM, to their destruction by the ionizing feedback of the massive stars they form. We improve with respect to our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Pedro Colin , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Gilberto C. Gomez

We performed 3-dimensional N-body/SPH simulations to study how mass resolution and other model parameters such as the star formation efficiency parameter, C* and the threshold density, nth affect structures of the galactic gaseous/stellar…

We present a steady-state analytical model for pressure-regulated formation of molecular clouds (MC) and stars (SF) in gaseous galactic disks and apply it to the Milky Way (MW). MC formation depends on midplane interstellar pressure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 José Franco , Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla , Javier Ballesteros-Paredes , Manuel Zamora-Avilez

Abridged. Understanding the detailed structure of the interstellar gas is essential for our knowledge of the star formation process. The small-scale structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) is a direct consequence of the galactic scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Patrick Hennebelle

We present a new determination of the star-forming main sequence (MS), obtained through stacking 100k K-band-selected galaxies in the far-infrared (FIR) Herschel and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) imaging. By fitting the dust emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-15 M. P. Koprowski , J. V. Wijesekera , J. S. Dunlop , D. J. McLeod , M. J. Michałowski , K. Lisiecki , R. J. McLure

Collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are one of the pathways for massive star formation, due to the high densities created. However the enhancement of the star formation rate (SFR) is not well constrained. In this study we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-13 Glen H. Hunter , Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

Star formation is observed to be suppressed in group and cluster galaxies compared to the field. To gain insight into the quenching process, we have analysed ~2000 galaxies formed in the GIMIC suite of cosmological hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Yannick M. Bahe , Ian G. McCarthy

We present an overview of some of the issues surrounding current models of galaxy formation, highlighting recent insights obtained from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Detailed examination of gas accretion processes show a hot mode…

Galactic star formation scaling relations show increased scatter from kpc to sub-kpc scales. Investigating this scatter may hold important clues to how the star formation process evolves in time and space. Here, we combine different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Bram B. Ochsendorf , Margaret Meixner , Julia Roman-Duval , Mubdi Rahman , Neal J. Evans

In these lectures I review observations of star-forming molecular clouds in our Galaxy and nearby galaxies to develop a physical intuition for understanding star formation in the local and high-redshift Universe. A lot of this material is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 Nick Z. Scoville

Knowledge of the molecular component of the ISM is fundamental to understand star formation. The H2 component appears to dominate the gas mass in the inner parts of galaxies, while the HI component dominates in the outer parts. Observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Combes

Observations give evidences of the presence of metals in the intergalactic medium (IGM). The stars responsible for transforming hydrogen and helium into more complex atoms do not form outside the galaxies in the standard scenario of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yohan Dubois , Romain Teyssier