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We first present chemodynamical simulations to investigate how stellar winds of massive stars influence early dynamical and chemical evolution of forming globular clusters (GCs). In our numerical models, GCs form in turbulent,high-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

While the best tracer of the molecular component and its dynamics in galaxies is the CO molecule, which excitation is revealed by its isotopic and (2-1)/(1-0) ratios, the denser gas is revealed by molecules such as HCN, HNC, HCO+ or CN,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-25 F. Combes

Observations indicate that early-type galaxies exhibit varying slopes in the relation between their central stellar surface density and stellar mass ($\Sigma_1 - M_{\star}$). Low-mass galaxies tend to follow a steep slope, close to one,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Ángel Rodríguez , Andrea V. Macciò , Smarika Sharma

New HCN, HNC, and HCO+ measurements of 46 normal galaxies in transitions up to J=4-3 are included in a multitransition database covering HCN and HCO+ (130 galaxies) and HNC (94 galaxies). The near-linear luminosity relations are dominated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 F. P. Israel

We compare the properties of clouds in simulated M33 galaxies to those observed in the real M33. We apply a friends of friends algorithm and CPROPS to identify clouds, as well as a pixel by pixel analysis. We obtain very good agreement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 C. L. Dobbs , E. Rosolowsky , A. R. Pettitt , J. Braine , E. Corbelli , J. Sun

Dense outflowing gas, traced by transitions of molecules with large dipole moment, is important for understanding mass loss and feedback of massive star formation. HCN 3-2 and HCO$^+$ 3-2 are good tracers of dense outflowing molecular gas,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-14 Yani Xu , Junzhi Wang , Shu Liu , Juan Li , Yuqiang LI , Rui Luo , Chao Ou , Siqi Zheng , Yijia Liu

We use idealized 3D hydrodynamic simulations to study the dynamics and thermal structure of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). Our simulations quantify the role of cooling, stellar feedback driven galactic winds and cosmological gas accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Drummond Fielding , Eliot Quataert , Michael McCourt , Todd A. Thompson

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are intertwined with galaxy evolution, injecting energy into the interstellar medium (ISM) that could regulate star formation as a galaxy evolves. However, the phenomena through which we observe AGN are…

We present hydrodynamic simulations of self-gravitating dense gas in a galactic disk, exploring scales ranging from 1 kpc down to $\sim 0.1$~pc. Our primary goal is to understand how dense filaments form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Sven Van Loo

Observations of various molecular lines toward a disk region of a nearby galaxy are now feasible, and they are being employed as diagnostic tools to study star-formation activities there. However, the spatial resolution attainable for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Yuri Nishimura , Yoshimasa Watanabe , Nanase Harada , Kotaro Kohno , Satoshi Yamamoto

All stars are born in molecular clouds, and most in giant molecular clouds (GMCs), which thus set the star formation activity of galaxies. We first review their observed properties, including measures of mass surface density, Sigma, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan C. Tan , Suzanne N. Shaske , Sven Van Loo

A sample of 30 H2O extra-galactic maser galaxies with their published HCN(J=1-0) and HCO+(J=1-0) observations has been compiled to investigate the dense gas correlation with H2O maser emission. Our sample number exceeds the size of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Farhan , E. N. Ercan , F. Tombesi

Far-infrared molecular emission is an important tool used to understand the excitation mechanisms of the gas in the inter-stellar medium of star-forming galaxies. In the present work, we model the emission from rotational transitions with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 M. V. Kazandjian , I. Pelupessy , R. Meijerink , F. P. Israel , C. M. Coppola , M. J. F. Rosenberg , M. Spaans

The amount of molecular gas is a key for understanding the future star formation in a galaxy. Because H2 is difficult to observe directly in dense and cold clouds, tracers like CO are used. However, at low metallicities especially, CO only…

Massive molecular gas has been discovered in giant elliptical galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters. To reveal its role in active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in those galaxies, we construct a semianalytical model of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-10 Yutaka Fujita , Nozomu Kawakatu , Hiroshi Nagai

We model emissivities of the HCN and CO $J=1-0$ transitions using measured properties of clouds found in normal star forming galaxies and more extreme systems. These models are compared with observations of HCN and CO $J=1-0$ transitions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-27 Ashley R. Bemis , Christine D. Wilson , Piyush Sharda , Ian D. Roberts , Hao He

In this study we quantify the properties of the gas and dark matter around active galactic nuclei (AGN) in simulated galaxy groups and clusters and analyze the effect of AGN feedback on the surrounding intra-cluster (group) medium. Our…

We use 31 simulated galaxies from the MaGICC project to investigate the effects of baryonic feedback on the density profiles of dark matter (DM) haloes. The sample covers a wide mass range: 9.4e9<Mhalo/Msun<7.8e11, hosting galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Arianna Di Cintio , Chris B. Brook , Andrea V. Maccio , Greg S. Stinson , Alexander Knebe , Aaron A. Dutton , James Wadsley

We study in simple terms the role of feedback in establishing the scaling relations of low-surface-brightness and dwarf galaxies with stellar masses in the range 6x10^5 <M*< 3x10^10 Msun. These galaxies, as measured from SDSS and in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Avishai Dekel , Joanna Woo

We present the results of a galaxy-wide study of molecular gas and star formation in a sample of 76 HII regions in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300. We have measured the molecular gas at 250 pc scales using pointed CO(J=2-1) observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Christopher M. Faesi , Charles J. Lada , Jan Forbrich , Karl Menten , Herve Bouy