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We analyze the structure and stability of the transition layer (or front) that connects the cold neutral medium and warm neutral medium in the plane-parallel geometry. Such fronts appear in recent numerical simulations of a thermally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Hiroshi Koyama

We systematically perform hydrodynamics simulations of 20 km s^-1 converging flows of the warm neutral medium (WNM) to calculate the formation of the cold neutral medium (CNM), especially focusing on the mean properties of the multiphase…

This paper is a numerical study of the condensation of the warm neutral medium (WNM) into cold neutral medium (CNM) structures under the effect of turbulence and thermal instability. Using low resolution simulations we explored the impact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-09 E. Saury , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , P. Hennebelle , E. Audit , W. Schmidt

The transition from the diffuse warm neutral medium (WNM) to the dense cold neutral medium (CNM) is what set the initial conditions to the formation of molecular clouds. The properties of the turbulent cascade in the WNM, essential to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Antoine Marchal , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes

The neutral component of the interstellar medium is segregated into the cold neutral medium (CNM) and warm neutral medium (WNM) as a result of thermal instability. It was found that a plane-parallel CNM-WNM evaporation interface, across…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim

We investigate the evolution of interfaces among phases of the interstellar medium with different temperature. It is found that, for some initial conditions, the dynamical effects related to conductive fronts are very important even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrea Ferrara , Yuri Shchekinov

We consider the scenario of a magnetic field orthogonal to a front separating two media of different temperatures and densities, such as cold and warm interstellar gas, in a 2-D plane-parallel geometry. A linear stability analysis is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Jennifer M. Stone , Ellen G. Zweibel

In a thermally bistable medium, cold, dense gas is separated from warm, rareified gas by thin phase transition layers, or fronts, in which heating, radiative cooling, thermal conduction, and convection of material are balanced. We calculate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Jennifer M. Stone , Ellen G. Zweibel

The interstellar medium (ISM) is subject, on one hand, to heating and cooling processes that tend to segregate it into distinct phases due to thermal instability (TI), and on the other, to turbulence-driving mechanisms that tend to produce…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-06 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

The interstellar medium (ISM) consists of a multiphase gas, including the warm neutral medium (WNM), the unstable neutral medium (UNM), and the cold neutral medium (CNM). While significant attention has been devoted to understanding the WNM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-13 Yue Hu

In this paper, the nonlinear evolution of a bistable interstellar medium is investigated using two-dimensional simulations with a realistic cooling rate, thermal conduction, and physical viscosity. The calculations are performed using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We consider the physical conditions of the neutral medium within, and in the environments of, galaxies. The basic physical and morphological properties of the neutral medium within galaxy disks are now quite well-constrained. Systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Braun

Using high-resolution, three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the structure of the interstellar medium in the central hundred pc region in galaxies, taking into account self-gravity of the gas, radiative cooling from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiichi Wada

We perform a suite of simulations with realistic gravity and thermal balance in shells to quantify the role of the ratio of cooling time to the free-fall time ($t_{\rm cool}/t_{\rm ff}$) and the amplitude of density perturbations ($\delta…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert

The network of interactions between hot gas, cool clouds, massive stars, and stellar remnants used in the chemodynamical modeling of the interstellar medium is investigated for the types of its solutions. In a physically consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. K"oppen , Ch. Theis , G. Hensler

Aims. We probe the effect of turbulent diffusion on the chemistry at the interface between a cold neutral medium (CNM) cloudlet and the warm neutral medium (WNM). Methods. We perform moving grid, multifluid, 1D, hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Lesaffre , M. Gerin , P. Hennebelle

We perform global linear stability analysis and idealized numerical simulations in global thermal balance to understand the condensation of cold gas from hot/virial atmospheres (coronae), in particular the intracluster medium (ICM). We pay…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-15 Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Prateek Sharma

Observations have suggested substantial departures from pressure equilibrium in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the plane of the Galaxy, even on scales under 50 pc. Nevertheless, multi-phase models of the ISM assume at least locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Dinshaw Balsara , Miguel A. Avillez , Jongsoo Kim

Spurred by rich, multi-wavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging from cosmological to sub-pc scales, the last decade has seen major theoretical progress in our understanding of the circumgalactic medium. We review key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-26 Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , S. Peng Oh

The structure of the interstellar medium in the central kpc region of a galaxy with a weak bar-like potential is investigated taking into account realistic cooling and heating processes and the self-gravity of the gas. Using high resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Wada , J. Koda
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