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Supernova (SN) explosions deposit prodigious energy and momentum in their environments, with the former regulating multiphase thermal structure and the latter regulating turbulence and star formation rates in the interstellar medium (ISM).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

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

We present simulations of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) at solar neighbourhood conditions including thermal and non-thermal ISM processes, star cluster formation, and feedback from massive stars: stellar winds, hydrogen ionising…

Supernova (SN) feedback plays a crucial role in simulations of galaxy formation. Because blastwaves from individual SNe occur on scales that remain unresolved in modern cosmological simulations, SN feedback must be implemented as a subgrid…

We introduce the star formation and Supernova (SN) feedback model of the SATIN (Simulating AGNs Through ISM with Non-Equilibrium Effects) project to simulate the evolution of the star forming multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) of entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Rebekka Bieri , Thorsten Naab , Sam Geen , Jonathan P. Coles , Rüdiger Pakmor , Stefanie Walch

Accurate modeling of supernova (SN) feedback in galaxy formation simulations is complicated by energy conservation violations arising from the vector nature of momentum injection. We present a mechanical feedback scheme addressing two key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Takashi Okamoto

Although supernova explosions and stellar winds happens at scales bellow 100 pc, they affect the interstellar medium(ISM) and galaxy formation. We use cosmological N-body+Hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation, as well as simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin

Feedback effects generated by supernovae (SNe) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are pivotal in shaping the evolution of galaxies and their present-day structures. However, our understanding of the specific mechanisms operating at galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-20 Kentaro Nagamine

While feedback from massive stars exploding as supernovae (SNe) is thought to be one of the key ingredients regulating galaxy formation, theoretically it is still unclear how the available energy couples to the interstellar medium and how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-27 Matthew C. Smith , Debora Sijacki , Sijing Shen

Stellar feedback plays a key role in galaxy formation by regulating star formation, driving interstellar turbulence and generating galactic scale outflows. Although modern simulations of galaxy formation can resolve scales of 10-100 pc,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Oscar Agertz , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Samuel N. Leitner , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Observations and theory suggest that Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) heating and mass loss from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars play a crucial role in the interstellar medium (ISM) of massive galaxies. We perform 3D hydrodynamic simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Eliot Quataert , Drummond Fielding , Minghao Guo

As a first step to a more complete understanding of the local physical processes which determine star formation rates (SFRs) in the interstellar medium (ISM), we have performed controlled numerical experiments consisting of hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Slyz , J. Devriendt , Greg Bryan , Joseph Silk

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide unique and important feedback in quiescent galaxies, but their impact has been underappreciated. In this paper, we analyze a series of high-resolution simulations to examine the energetics and turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 Miao Li , Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan , Eve C. Ostriker , Eliot Quataert

Stellar winds and supernova (SN) explosions of massive stars ("stellar feedback") create bubbles in the interstellar medium (ISM) and insert newly produced heavy elements and kinetic energy into their surroundings, possibly driving…

We investigate the evolution of supernova remnants (SNRs) in a two-phase cloudy medium by performing a series of high-resolution (up to $\Delta x\approx0.01\,\mathrm{pc}$), 3D hydrodynamical simulations including radiative cooling and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-21 Minghao Guo , Chang-Goo Kim , James M. Stone

We use hydrodynamical simulations in a $(256\;{\rm pc})^3$ periodic box to model the impact of supernova (SN) explosions on the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) for initial densities $n = 0.5-30$ cm$^{-3}$ and SN rates $1-720$…

We develop a new realistic prescription for modeling the stellar feedback, which minimizes any ad hoc assumptions about sub-grid physics. We start with developing high resolution models of the ISM and formulate the conditions required for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin

Feedback from supernovae (SNe) is an essential mechanism that self-regulates the growth of galaxies, and a better model of SN feedback is still needed in galaxy formation simulations. In the first part of this paper, using an Eulerian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Yuri Oku , Kengo Tomida , Kentaro Nagamine , Ikkoh Shimizu , Renyue Cen

We present a novel framework to self-consistently model the effects of radiation fields, dust physics and molecular chemistry (H$_2$) in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The model combines a state-of-the-art radiation…

We have used the NIHAO simulations to explore how supernovae (SNe) affect star formation in galaxies. We find that SN feedback operates on all scales from the interstellar medium (ISM) to several virial radii. SNe regulate star formation by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Édouard Tollet , Andrea Cattaneo , Andrea V. Macciò , Aaron A. Dutton , Xi Kang