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Models are presented for the polytropic equation of state of self-gravitating, quiescent interstellar gas clouds. A detailed analysis, including chemistry, thermal balance, and radiative transfer, is performed for the physical state of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marco Spaans , Joseph Silk

We present the study of gas phases around cosmic-web filaments detected in the TNG300-1 hydro-dynamical simulation at redshift z=0. We separate the gas in five different phases according to temperature and density. We show that filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Hideki Tanimura

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

We analyse the results of four simulations of isolated galaxies: two with a rigid spiral potential of fixed pattern speed, but with different degrees of star-formation induced feedback, one with an axisymmetric galactic potential and one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 C. L. Dobbs , J. E. Pringle , A. Burkert

Using a new parallel algorithm implemented within the VisIt framework, we analysed large cosmological grid simulations to study the properties of baryons in filaments. The procedure allows us to build large catalogues with up to $\sim 3…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Jean Favre , Marcus Brüggen

We explore the properties of cold gravitoturbulent accretion disks - non-fragmenting disks hovering on the verge of gravitational instability - using a realistic prescription for the effective viscosity caused by gravitational torques. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Roman R. Rafikov

This paper deals with the heating and the ionization of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the 500 central pc of the Milky Way (hereafter Galactic center, GC). We review the results of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) observations of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , J. Martin-Pintado

We examine the linear stability of an isothermal filamentary cloud permeated by a perpendicular magnetic field. Our model cloud is assumed to be supported by gas pressure against the self-gravity in the unperturbed state. For simplicity,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Takahiro Kudoh , Kohji Tomisaka

We investigate insterstellar gas spheres by determining the metric functions, the material distribution, and the features of particle orbits in terms of stability and geodesics. An exact solution of the Einstein's equations for interstellar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-21 Dániel Barta

We follow numerically the nonlinear evolution of the Parker instability in the presence of phase transitions from a warm to a cold HI interstellar medium in two spatial dimensions. The nonlinear evolution of the system favors modes that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Matthew W. Kunz , Duncan A. Christie

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

The thermodynamics of a self-gravitating gas cloud of particles interacting only via their gravitational potential is an interesting problem with peculiarities arising due to the long-ranged nature of the gravitational interaction. Based on…

General Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 Christine Gruber

By resimulating a region of a global disc simulation at higher resolution, we resolve and study the properties of molecular clouds with a range of masses from a few 100's M$_{\odot}$ to $10^6$ M$_{\odot}$. The purpose of our paper is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Clare L. Dobbs

We have investigated properties of the interstellar medium in interacting galaxies in early and mid-stage using mapping data of 12CO(1-0) and HI.Assuming the standard CO-H2 conversion factor, we found no difference in molecular gas mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-31 Hiroyuki Kaneko , Nario Kuno , Daisuke Iono , Yoichi Tamura , Tomoka Tosaki , Koichiro Nakanishi , Tsuyoshi Sawada

For decades, the boundary of cosmic filaments have been a subject of debate. In this work, we determine the physically-motivated radii of filaments by constructing stacked galaxy number density profiles around the filament spines. We find…

Dynamic and thermal processes regulate the structure of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM), and ultimately establish how galaxies evolve through star formation. Thus, to constrain ISM models and better understand the interplay of…

Gravitational instabilities play an important role in galaxy evolution and in shaping the interstellar medium (ISM). The ISM is observed to be highly turbulent, meaning that observables like the gas surface density and velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Oscar Agertz , Alessandro B. Romeo , Kearn Grisdale

The objective of this paper is to help shedding some light on the nature and the properties of the cold structures formed via thermal instability in the magnetized atomic interstellar medium. To this end, we searched for clumps formed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Adriana Gazol , Marco Villagran

We explore various instability models for the onset of star formation in irregular galaxies. Critical gas densities are calculated for gravitational instabilities with a thin, pure-gas disk, and with a thick disk composed of gas and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Deidre A. Hunter , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Aomawa L. Baker

Resolved metallicity studies of local disk galaxies have revealed that their interstellar media (ISMs) are far from chemically homogeneous, displaying significant ($\sim 0.05$ dex) variations in the metallicity on characteristic scales of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-13 Benjamin Metha , Michele Trenti , Colin Norman