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The processes controlling the complex clump structure, phase distribution, and magnetic field geometry that develops across a broad range of scales in the turbulent interstellar medium remains unclear. Using unprecedentedly high resolution…

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Galactic outflows produced by stellar feedback are known to be multiphase in nature. Both observations and simulations indicate that the material within several kpc of galactic disk mid-planes consists of warm clouds embedded within a hot…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Aditi Vijayan , Chang-Goo Kim , Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Miao Li

We study the structural evolution of turbulent molecular clouds under the influence of ionizing radiation emitted from a nearby massive star by performing a high resolution parameter study with the iVINE code. The temperature is taken to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Matthias Gritschneder , Andreas Burkert , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch

The existence of substellar cold H2 globules in planetary nebulae and the mere existence of comets suggest that the physics of cold interstellar gas might be much richer than usually envisioned. We study the case of a cold gaseous medium in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 Andreas Füglistaler , Daniel Pfenniger

Condensation of H 2 in the interstellar medium (ISM) has long been seen as a possibility, either by deposition on dust grains or thanks to a phase transition combined with self-gravity. H 2 condensation might explain the observed low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Andreas Füglistaler , Daniel Pfenniger

The hot plasma in galaxy clusters is expected to be heated to high temperatures through shocks and adiabatic compression. The thermodynamical properties of the gas encode information on the processes leading to the thermalization of the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. Ghirardini , D. Eckert , S. Ettori , E. Pointecouteau , S. Molendi , M. Gaspari , M. Rossetti , S. De Grandi , M. Roncarelli , H. Bourdin , P. Mazzotta , E. Rasia , F. Vazza

Using numerical simulations of galactic disks resolving scales from ~1 to several hundred pc, we investigate dynamical properties of the multiphase ISM with turbulence driven by star formation feedback. We focus on HII region effects by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 H. Koyama , E. C. Ostriker

Aims: We systematically explore a plausible subset of the parameter space involving effective temperatures and metallicities of the ionizing stellar sources, the effects of the hardening of their radiation by surrounding leaky HII regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 J. A. Weber , A. W. A. Pauldrach , T. L. Hoffmann

We present a 3d code for the dynamical evolution of a multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) coupled to stars via star formation (SF) and feedback processes. The multi-phase ISM consists of clouds (sticky particles) and diffuse gas (SPH):…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Harfst , Ch. Theis , G. Hensler

We examine the linear stability and nonlinear growth of the thermal instability in isobarically contracting gas with various metallicities and FUV field strengths. When the H2 cooling is suppressed by FUV fields (G_0>10^-3) or the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kazuyuki Omukai

We present an empirical dynamical model of the local interstellar medium based on 270 radial-velocity measurements for 157 sight lines toward nearby stars. Physical-parameter measurements (i.e., temperature, turbulent velocity, depletions)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-28 Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

The interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies very often contains a gas component that reaches the temperature of several million degrees, whose physical and chemical properties can be investigated through imaging and spectroscopy in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Emanuele Nardini , Dong-Woo Kim , Silvia Pellegrini

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a turbulent, highly structured multi-phase medium. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of the formation of galactic discs usually lack the resolution to accurately resolve those multi-phase structures.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Tobias Buck , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Bogdan Corobean

Thermal instability (TI) plays a crucial role in the formation of multiphase structures and their dynamics in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) and is a leading theory for cold cloud creation in various astrophysical environments. In this paper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-24 R. Michael Jennings , Yuan Li

We present a dynamical model of supernova feedback which follows the evolution of pressurised bubbles driven by supernovae in a multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM). The bubbles are followed until the point of break-out into the halo,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Claudia del P. Lagos , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh

We provide a brief overview of recent advances and outstanding issues in simulations of interstellar turbulence, including isothermal models for interior structure of molecular clouds and larger-scale multiphase models designed to simulate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-05 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

The supernova-driven interstellar medium in star-forming galaxies has Reynolds numbers of the order of $10^{6}$ or even larger. We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. de Avillez , D. Breitschwerdt

The gas-phase metallicity affects heating and cooling processes in the star-forming galactic interstellar medium (ISM) as well as ionising luminosities, wind strengths, and lifetimes of massive stars. To investigate its impact, we conduct…

The main goal of this analysis is to present a new method to estimate the physical properties of diffuse cloud of atomic hydrogen observed at high Galactic latitude. This method, based on a comparison of the observations with fractional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes , Peter G. Martin

We carry out 3D-hydrodynamical calculations for the interaction of expanding supernova ejecta with the dense circumstellar matter (CSM) and the rarefied interstellar medium (ISM) outside. The CSM is composed of the stellar wind matter from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Takafumi Shimizu , Kuniaki Masai , Katsuji Koyama
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