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A roughly constant temperature over a wide range of densities is maintained in molecular clouds through radiative heating and cooling. An isothermal equation of state is therefore frequently employed in molecular cloud simulations. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Pavlovski , M. D. Smith , M. -M. Mac Low

We present a modified TREESPH code to model galaxies in 3d. The model includes a multi-phase description of the interstellar medium which combines two numerical techniques. A diffuse warm/hot gas phase is modelled by SPH while a sticky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Harfst , C. Theis , G. Hensler

We explore the effect of magnetic fields on the vertical distribution and multiphase structure of the supernova-driven interstellar medium (ISM) in simulations that admit dynamo action. As the magnetic field is amplified to become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-26 C. C. Evirgen , F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , P. J. Bushby

Supersonic flows in the interstellar medium (ISM) are believed to be a key driver of the molecular cloud formation and evolution. Among molecular clouds' properties, the ratio between the solenoidal and compressive modes of turbulence plays…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kengo Tomida , Kazunari Iwasaki , Hiroki Nakatsugawa

We present 50 individual measurements of the gas temperature and turbulent velocity in the local interstellar medium (LISM) within 100 pc. By comparing the absorption line widths of many ions with different atomic masses, we can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

The SILCC project (SImulating the Life-Cycle of molecular Clouds) aims at a more self-consistent understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) on small scales and its link to galaxy evolution. We simulate the evolution of the multi-phase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 S. K. Walch , P. Girichidis , T. Naab , A. Gatto , S. C. O. Glover , R. Wünsch , R. S Klessen , P. C. Clark , T. Peters , C. Baczynski

Using high resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the evolution of a self-gravitating multi-phase interstellar medium in the central kiloparsec region of a galactic disk. We find that a gravitationally and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Keiichi Wada , C. A. Norman

Astrophysical gases such as the interstellar-, circumgalactic- or intracluster-medium are commonly multiphase, which poses the question of the structure of these systems. While there are many known processes leading to fragmentation of cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-18 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

This chapter reviews the nature of turbulence in the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) and its connections to the star formation (SF) process. The ISM is turbulent, magnetized, self-gravitating, and is subject to heating and cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

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 magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the star-forming multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) in stratified galactic patches with gas surface densities $\Sigma_\mathrm{gas} =$ 10, 30, 50, and 100 $\mathrm{M_\odot\,pc^{-2}}$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Tim-Eric Rathjen , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Philipp Girichidis , Richard Wünsch

This paper reports on 3D numerical simulations of dynamics and thermodynamics in the diffuse ISM. Our models are local, account for sheared galactic rotation, magnetic fields, and realistic cooling, and resolve scales ~1-200 pc. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

Galactic outflows are a key agent of galaxy evolution, yet their observed multiphase nature remains difficult to reconcile with theoretical models, which often fail to explain how cold gas survives interactions with hot, fast winds. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Fernando Hidalgo-Pineda , Max Gronke , Philipp Grete

We model the complex distribution of atomic hydrogen (HI) in the interstellar medium (ISM) assuming that it is driven entirely by supernovae (SN). We develop and assess two different models. In the first approach, the simulated volume is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacqueline A. Hodge , Avinash A. Deshpande

We present a numerical and analytical study of the thermal fragmentation of a turbulent flow of interstellar hydrogen. We first present the different dynamical processes and the large range of spatial (and temporal) scales that need to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Audit , P. Hennebelle

Massive elliptical galaxies harbor large amounts of hot gas ($T\gtrsim10^6~\mathrm{K}$) in their interstellar medium (ISM) but are typically quiescent in star formation. Active-galactic nuclei (AGNs) jets and Type Ia supernovae (SNIa)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-15 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Eliot Quataert

Temperature probability distribution functions (PDFs) are a compact description of the thermal structure of multi-phase turbulent gas, and are directly linked to observables such as emission/absorption line ratios and phase mass fractions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-16 Zirui Chen , S. Peng Oh

(Abridged) We discuss the nonlinear development of the isobaric mode of thermal instability (TI) in the context of the atomic interstellar medium (ISM), in order to assess the ability of TI to establish a well-segregated multi-phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , A. Gazol

To evaluate the effect of turbulent heating in the thermal balance of interstellar clouds, we develop an extension of the log-Poisson intermittency model to supersonic turbulence. The model depends on a parameter, d, interpreted as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan

Supersonic turbulence is a large reservoir of suprathermal energy in the interstellar medium. Its dissipation, because it is intermittent in space and time, can deeply modify the chemistry of the gas. We further explore a hybrid method to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin Godard , Edith Falgarone , Guillaume Pineau Des Forêts