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Feedback from supernovae is often invoked as an important process in limiting star formation, removing gas from galaxies and hence as a determining process in galaxy formation. Here we report on numerical simulations investigating the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 William E. Lucas , Ian A. Bonnell , James E. Dale

Energy and momentum feedback from stars is a key element of models for galaxy formation and interstellar medium dynamics, but resolving the relevant length scales to directly include this feedback remain out of reach of current-generation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Yvonne A. Fichtner , Jonathan Mackey , Luca Grassitelli , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Cristiano Porciani

Globular clusters are considerably more complex structures than previously thought, harbouring at least two stellar generations which present clearly distinct chemical abundances. Scenarios explaining the abundance patterns in globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-12 F. Calura , C. G. Few , D. Romano , A. D'Ercole

Cosmological simulations make use of sub-grid recipes for the implementation of galactic winds driven by massive stars because direct injection of supernova energy in thermal form leads to strong radiative losses, rendering the feedback…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Joop Schaye

The importance of the interstellar magnetic field is studied in relation to the evolutions of superbubbles with a three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation. A superbubble is a large supernova remnant driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kohji Tomisaka

Galactic-scale simulations rely on sub-grid models to provide prescriptions for the coupling between supernova (SN) feedback and the interstellar medium (ISM). Many of these models are computed in 1-D to allow for an efficient way to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Ian A. Bonnell

Context. Molecular clouds are known to be turbulent and strongly affected by stellar feedback. Moreover, stellar feedback is believed to drive turbulence at large scales in galaxies. Aims. We study the role played by supernovae in molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-15 Olivier Iffrig , Patrick Hennebelle

Mass-loss and radiation feedback from evolving massive stars produce galactic-scale superwinds, sometimes surrounded by pressure-driven bubbles. Using the time-dependent stellar population typically seen in star-forming regions, we conduct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-27 A. Danehkar , M. S. Oey , W. J. Gray

Star clusters interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) in various ways, most importantly in the destruction of molecular star-forming clouds, resulting in inefficient star formation on galactic scales. On cloud scales, ionizing radiation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-25 Daniel Rahner , Eric W. Pellegrini , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

Supernova (SN) blast waves inject energy and momentum into the interstellar medium (ISM), control its turbulent multiphase structure and the launching of galactic outflows. Accurate modelling of the blast wave evolution is therefore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 Sebastian Haid , Stefanie Walch , Thorsten Naab , Daniel Seifried , Jonathan Mackey , Andrea Gatto

An isolated massive star can blow a bubble, while a group of massive stars can blow superbubbles. In this paper, we examine three intriguing questions regarding bubbles and superbubbles: (1) why don't we see interstellar bubbles around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. -H. Chu , M. A. Guerrero , R. A. Gruendl

Numerous spherical ``shells" have been observed in young star-forming environments that host low- and intermediate-mass stars. These observations suggest that these shells may be produced by isotropic stellar wind feedback from young…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Anna L. Rosen , Stella S. R. Offner , Michael M. Foley , Laura A. Lopez

We use numerical simulations to analyze the evolution and properties of superbubbles (SBs), driven by multiple supernovae (SNe), that propagate into the two-phase (warm/cold), cloudy interstellar medium (ISM). We consider a range of mean…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , Roberta Raileanu

We study the conditions for disk galaxies to produce superbubbles that can break out of the disk and produce a galactic wind. We argue that the threshold surface density of supernovae rate for seeding a wind depends on the ability of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Arpita Roy , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , Yuri Shchekinov

When a core-collapse supernova explodes in a binary star system, the ejecta might encounter an overdense shell, where the stellar winds of the two stars previously collided. In this work, we investigate effects of such interactions on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Ondřej Pejcha , Diego Calderón , Petr Kurfürst

The star cluster initial mass function is observed to have an inverse power law exponent around 2, yet there is no consensus on what determines this distribution, and why some variation is observed in different galaxies. Furthermore, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-03 Eric P. Andersson , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud , Hui Li

Energetic winds and radiation from massive star clusters push the surrounding gas and blow superbubbles in the interstellar medium (ISM). Using 1-D hydrodynamic simulations, we study the role of radiation in the dynamics of superbubbles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Siddhartha Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , Yuri Shchekinov

We present an analytic model for clustered supernovae (SNe) feedback in galaxy disks, incorporating the dynamical evolution of superbubbles formed from spatially overlapping SNe remnants. We propose two realistic outcomes for the evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Matthew E. Orr , Drummond B. Fielding , Christopher C. Hayward , Blakesley Burkhart

We simulate the effects of massive star feedback, via winds and SNe, on inhomogeneous molecular material left over from the formation of a massive stellar cluster. We use 3D hydrodynamic models with a temperature dependent average particle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-25 Julian Pittard , Hazel Rogers

We study the magnetic field evolution of an isolated spiral galaxy, using isolated Milky Way-mass galaxy formation simulations and a novel prescription for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) supernova feedback. Our main result is that a galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Iryna Butsky , Jonathan Zrake , Ji-hoon Kim , Hung-I Yang , Tom Abel