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Observations of non-thermal emission from several supernova remnants suggest that magnetic fields close to the blastwave are much stronger than would be naively expected from simple shock compression of the field permeating the interstellar…

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We present a systematic study of the thermodynamic properties of the intracluster medium (ICM), including the plasma conditions in the ICM, in the merging galaxy cluster A3667 using Suzaku. We analyze the X-ray spectra of the ICM between…

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It is shown that magnetic islands generated by pressure-gradient-driven turbulence are common across a wide range of conditions. The interaction among turbulence, magnetic island and other large scale structures (the zonal flow and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Daniele Villa , Nicolas Dubuit , Olivier Agullo , Xavier Garbet

Stellar feedback drives the circulation of matter from the disk to the halo of galaxies. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a vertical column of the interstellar medium with initial conditions typical of the…

It has been known for half a century that the interstellar medium (ISM) of our Galaxy is structured on scales as small as a few hundred km, more than 10 orders of magnitude smaller than typical ISM structures and energy input scales. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Snezana Stanimirovic , Ellen G. Zweibel

Bow shocks generated by pulsars moving through weakly ionized interstellar medium (ISM) produce emission dominated by non-equilibrium atomic transitions. These bow shocks are primarily observed as H$_\alpha$ nebulae. We developed a package,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 I. N. Nikonorov , M. V. Barkov , M. Lyutikov

The transport of heat out of tokamak plasmas by turbulence is the dominant mechanism limiting the performance of fusion reactors. Turbulence can be driven by the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and suppressed by toroidal sheared flows.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Ferdinand van Wyk

We argue that stochastic and resonant ion heating, often viewed as distinct processes in low-$\beta$ collisionless plasmas, are the far limits of a continuum controlled by nonlinear broadening of turbulent fluctuations, and thus by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Zade Johnston , Jonathan Squire , Romain Meyrand

The diffuse hot medium inside clusters of galaxies typically exhibits turbulent motions whose amplitude increases with radius, as revealed by cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. However, its physical origin remains unclear. It could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin Lau

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

Explaining the observed diversity of supernovae (SNe) and the physics of explosion requires knowledge of their progenitor stars, which can be obtained by constraining the circumstellar medium (CSM). Models of the SN ejecta colliding with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Chelsea E. Harris , Peter E. Nugent

The turbulent small-scale dynamo (SSD) is likely to be responsible for the magnetisation of the interstellar medium (ISM) that we observe in the Universe today. The SSD efficiently converts kinetic energy $E_{\rm kin}$ into magnetic energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Neco Kriel , Philip Mocz , Amit Seta

We simulate the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in a universe dominated by a cosmological constant. We find that within a few Hubble times from the present epoch, the baryons will have two primary phases: one phase composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kentaro Nagamine , Abraham Loeb

We attempt to explain the non-thermal emission arising from galaxy clusters as a result of the re-acceleration of electrons by compressible turbulence induced by cluster mergers. In our model intracluster medium (ICM) is represented by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brunetti , A. Lazarian

The ISM is governed by supersonic turbulence on a range of scales. We use this to develop a rigorous excursion-set model for the formation and time evolution of dense gas structures (GMCs, massive clumps, and cores). Supersonic turbulence…

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We present high resolution simulations on the impact of ionizing radiation of massive O-stars on the surrounding turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). The simulations are performed with the newly developed software iVINE which combines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias Gritschneder , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Andreas Burkert , Fabian Heitsch

We create a photoionization model embedded in the turbulent ISM by using the state-of-the-art Messenger Monte-Carlo MAPPINGS~V code (M$^3$) in conjunction with the CMFGEN stellar atmosphere model. We show that the turbulent ISM causes the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Yifei Jin , Lisa J. Kewley , Ralph S. Sutherland

Using a code that employs a self-consistent method for computing the effects of photo-ionization on circumstellar gas dynamics, we model the formation of wind-driven nebulae around massive stars. We take into account changes in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-22 Vikram V. Dwarkadas

Two of the dominant channels for galaxy mass assembly are cold flows (cold gas supplied via the filaments of the cosmic web) and mergers. How these processes combine in a cosmological setting, at both low and high redshift, to produce the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Leila C. Powell , Frederic Bournaud , Damien Chapon , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover a wide range of scales (from kpc to sub-parsec), the dimension of the most dissipative structures and the injection scale of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt