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We present numerical methods for including stellar feedback in galaxy-scale simulations. We include heating by SNe (I & II), gas recycling and shock-heating from O-star & AGB winds, HII photoionization, and radiation pressure from stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

We perform calculations of isolated disc galaxies to investigate how the properties of the ISM, the nature of molecular clouds, and the global star formation rate depend on the level of stellar feedback. We adopt a simple physical model,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 C. L. Dobbs , A. Burkert , J. E. Pringle

We consider the effects of different star formation criteria on galactic scales, in high-resolution simulations with explicitly resolved GMCs and stellar feedback. We compare: (1) a self-gravity criterion (based on the local virial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Desika Narayanan , Norman Murray

We present a model for star formation and supernova feedback that describes the multi-phase structure of star forming gas on scales that are typically not resolved in cosmological simulations. Our approach includes radiative heating and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-19 Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We include feedback in global hydrodynamic simulations in order to study the star formation properties, and gas structure and dynamics, in models of galactic disks. We extend previous models by implementing feedback in gravitationally bound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rahul Shetty , Eve C. Ostriker

Galaxy formation models and simulations rely on various feedback mechanisms to reproduce the observed baryonic scaling relations and galaxy morphologies. Although dwarf galaxy and giant elliptical properties can be explained using feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rok Roškar , Romain Teyssier , Oscar Agertz , Markus Wetzstein , Ben Moore

We investigate phenomenological models of star formation and supernova feedback in N-body/SPH simulations of galaxy formation. First, we compare different prescriptions in the literature for turning cold gas into stars neglecting feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Scott T. Kay , Frazer R. Pearce , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins

We used fully cosmological, high resolution N-body+SPH simulations to follow the formation of disk galaxies with a rotational velocity between 140 and 280 Km/sec in a Lambda CDM universe. The simulations include gas cooling, star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Governato , Greg Stinson , J. Wadsley , T. Quinn

Using hydrodynamic simulations of disc-galaxy major mergers, we investigate the star formation history and remnant properties when various parametrizations of a simple stellar feedback model are implemented. The simulations include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-25 T. J. Cox , Patrik Jonsson , Joel R. Primack , Rachel S. Somerville

We present a detailed investigation of different approaches to modeling feedback in simulations of galaxy formation. Gas-dynamic forces are evaluated using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) while star formation and supernova feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

Observations that resolve nearby galaxies into individual regions across multiple phases of the gas-star formation-feedback ``matter cycle'' have provided a sharp new view of molecular clouds, star formation efficiencies, timescales for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-01 Eva Schinnerer , Adam K. Leroy

We have applied stellar population synthesis to 500 pc sized regions in a sample of 102 galaxy discs observed with the MUSE spectrograph. We derived the star formation history and analyse specifically the "recent" ($20\rm{Myr}$) and "past"…

We introduce the Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context (MaGICC) program of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. We describe a parameter study of galaxy formation simulations of an L* galaxy that uses early stellar feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Stinson , C. Brook , A. V. Macciò , J. Wadsley , T. R. Quinn , H. M. P. Couchman

Various heuristic approaches to model unresolved supernova (SN) feedback in galaxy formation simulations exist to reproduce the formation of spiral galaxies and the overall inefficient conversion of gas into stars. Some models, however,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Alejandro Núñez , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Ludwig Oser , Chia-Yu Hu , Ena Choi

We present a suite of 3D multi-physics MHD simulations following star formation in isolated turbulent molecular gas disks ranging from 5 to 500 parsecs in radius. These simulations are designed to survey the range of surface densities…

The physics of star formation and the deposition of mass, momentum, and energy into the interstellar medium by massive stars (`feedback') are the main uncertainties in modern cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and evolution. These…

Star clusters host the massive stars responsible for feedback in star-forming galaxies. Stellar feedback shapes the interstellar medium (ISM), affecting the formation of future star clusters. To self-consistently capture the interplay…

We examine the stability of feedback-regulated star formation (SF) in galactic nuclei and contrast it to SF in extended discs. In galactic nuclei the dynamical time becomes shorter than the time over which feedback from young stars evolves.…

Radiative and mechanical feedback of massive stars regulates star formation and galaxy evolution. Positive feedback triggers the creation of new stars by collecting dense shells of gas, while negative feedback disrupts star formation by…

We explore the self-regulation of star formation using a large suite of high resolution hydrodynamic simulations, focusing on molecule-dominated regions (galactic centers and [U]LIRGS) where feedback from star formation drives highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rahul Shetty , Eve C. Ostriker