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Exocomets scattered by planets have been invoked to explain observations in multiple contexts, including the frequently found near- and mid-infrared excess around nearby stars arising from exozodiacal dust. Here we investigate how the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Sebastian Marino , Amy Bonsor , Mark C. Wyatt , Quentin Kral

We present results on the nature of extreme ejective feedback episodes and the physical conditions of a population of massive ($\rm M_* \sim 10^{11} M_{\odot}$), compact starburst galaxies at z = 0.4-0.7. We use data from Keck/NIRSPEC,…

We have studied plume formation after a Jovian comet impact using the ZEUS-MP 2 hydrodynamics code. The three-dimensional models followed objects with 500, 750, and 1000 meter diameters. Our simulations show the development of a fast,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Csaba Palotai , Donald G. Korycansky , Joseph Harrington , Noémi Rebeli , Travis Gabriel

The molecular richness of fast protostellar jets within 20-100 au of their source, despite strong ultraviolet irradiation, remains a challenge for the models investigated so far. We aim to investigate the effect of interaction between a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 B. Tabone , A. Raga , S. Cabrit , G. Pineau des Forêts

Outflows up to 1500 km/s of atomic neutral hydrogen are detected in a growing number of radio galaxies. Outflows with similar velocities are also detected in ionized gas, suggesting a common origin for the extreme kinematics of these two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Morganti , T. Oosterloo , C. Tadhunter

Explaining the unexpected presence of dune-like patterns at the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko requires conceptual and quantitative advances in the understanding of surface and outgassing processes. We show here that vapor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-09 P. Jia , B. Andreotti , P. Claudin

Context. The Stardust flyby mission to Jupiter-family comet (JFC) 81P/Wild 2 (hereafter, 81P) captured its dense quasicircular depressions. Nevertheless, the formation mechanism remains a subject of ongoing debate. Aims. We aimed to study…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Bumhoo Lim , Masateru Ishiguro

Recent X-ray observations of hot gas in the galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 reveal huge radio-bright, quasi-bipolar X-ray cavities having a total energy ~10^{62} ergs, the most energetic AGN outburst currently known. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Fulai Guo , William G. Mathews

The mechanism by which outflows and plausible jets are driven from black hole systems, still remains observationally elusive. Notwithstanding, several observational evidences and deeper theoretical insights reveal that accretion and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The encounter of the meteoric material from 73P/Schmassmann--Wachmann~3 produced during the comet's 1995 outburst in May 2022 provides a rare and valuable opportunity to understand a fragmenting comet. Here we explore various ejection…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Quanzhi Ye , Jérémie Vaubaillon

It has been suggested that the comet-like activity of Main Belt Comets are due to the sublimation of sub-surface water-ice that has been exposed as a result of their surfaces being impacted by m-sized bodies. We have examined the viability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Nader Haghighipour , Thomas Maindl , Christoph Schaefer , Roland Speith , Rudolf Dvorak

The Oort Cloud Comets (OCCs), exemplified by the Great Comet of 1997 (Hale-Bopp), are occasional visitors from the heatless periphery of the solar system. Previous works hypothesized that a great majority of OCCs must physically disrupt…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 David Nesvorny , David Vokrouhlicky , Petr Pokorny , Diego Janches

Mass outflow rates and loading factors are typically used to infer the quenching potential of galactic-scale outflows. However, these generally rely on observations of a single gas phase which can severely underestimate the total ejected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-22 Guido Roberts-Borsani

We present optical observations of Halley type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on its approach to perihelion. The comet was active even in the first observations at about 8 au. Starting at 4 au, 12P exhibited an extraordinary series of outbursts, in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 David Jewitt , Jane Luu

We report ALMA observations of a one-sided, high-velocity ($\sim$80 km s$^{-1}$) CO($J = 2 \rightarrow 1$) jet powered by the intermediate-mass protostellar source Serpens SMM1-a. The highly collimated molecular jet is flanked at the base…

Deformation of liquid droplets by impingement induces Worthington jet in certain range of the impact velocity. Although the growth of the jet as well as its tip velocity is predicted from similar cases to the droplet impact, the mechanism…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-28 Ken Yamamoto , Masahiro Motosuke , Satoshi Ogata

Photometric and spectroscopic observations of five nearly parabolic comets with eccentricity larger than 0.99 at heliocentric distances greater than 4 AU were performed. No molecular emission was observed for any studied comet and the…

We study singular jets from the collapse of drop-impact craters, when the drop and pool are of different immiscible liquids. These jets emerge from a dimple at the bottom of the rebounding crater, when no bubble is pinched off. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-29 Zi Qiang Yang , Yuan Si Tian , Sigurður T. Thoroddsen

The fast outflow emerging from a region associated with massive star formation in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), located behind the Orion Nebula, appears to have been set in motion by an explosive event. Here we study the structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-15 H. D. Nissen , N. J. Cunningham , M. Gustafsson , J. Bally , J. -L. Lemaire , C. Favre , D. Field

A droplet ejection mechanism in planar two-phase mixing layers is examined. Any disturbance on the gas-liquid interface grows into a Kelvin-Helmholtz wave, and the wave crest forms a thin liquid film that flaps as the wave grows downstream.…