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We perform high resolution direct $N$-body simulations to study the effect of an accretion disc on stellar dynamics in an active galactic nucleus (AGN). We show that the interaction of the nuclear stellar cluster (NSC) with the gaseous disc…

I review studies of the hot gaseous medium in and around nearby normal disk galaxies, including the Milky Way. This medium represents a reservoir of materials required for lasting star formation, a depository of galactic feedback (e.g.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Q. Daniel Wang

There is overwhelming evidence that the Milky Way has formed its stars at a rel- atively constant rate throughout the Hubble time. This implies that its stock of cold gas was not in place since the beginning but it has been acquired slowly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Filippo Fraternali

High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs) are a major fuel reservoir for star formation in the Galactic disk. Determining their origin and kinematics is thus crucial for understanding Galactic evolution. In this paper, we employ simple test-particle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Izumi Seno , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Jiro Shimoda

We use high-resolution zoom-in simulations to study the fueling of the central galaxies by gas accretion from cosmological filaments at high redshifts, z>=2. Their parent haloes with similar DM masses of log(M_vir/M})~11.65, have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. We find that the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Chang-Goo Kim

Efficient thermalization of overlapping supernovae within star-forming galaxies may produce a supernova-heated fluid that drives galactic winds. For fiducial assumptions about the timescale for cloud shredding from high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Dong Zhang , Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

We compare the galaxy population of an SPH simulation to those predicted by the GalICS semi-analytic model and a stripped down version without supernova and AGN feedback. The SPH simulation and the no-feedback GalICS model make similar…

Recent observations suggested that star formation quenching in galaxies is related to galaxy structure. Here we propose a new mechanism to explain the physical origin of this correlation. We assume that while quiescent galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Fulai Guo

It is well known that gas in galaxy discs is highly turbulent, but there is much debate on which mechanism can energetically maintain this turbulence. Among the possible candidates, supernova (SN) explosions are likely the primary drivers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Cecilia Bacchini , Filippo Fraternali , Giuliano Iorio , Gabriele Pezzulli , Antonino Marasco , Carlo Nipoti

We present hydrodynamic simulations of a major merger of disk galaxies, and study the ISM dynamics and star formation properties. High spatial and mass resolutions of 12pc and 4x10^4 M_sol allow to resolve cold and turbulent gas clouds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Romain Teyssier , Damien Chapon , Frederic Bournaud

We revisit previous suggestions that the heating provided by the winds of dying low-mass stars plays an important role in preventing star formation in quiescent galaxies. At the end of their asymptotic giant branch phase, intermediate and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Charlie Conroy , Pieter van Dokkum , Andrey Kravtsov

We study how feedback influences baryon infall onto galaxies using cosmological, zoom-in simulations of haloes with present mass $M_{vir}=6.9\times10^{11} M_{\odot}$ to $1.7\times10^{12} M_{\odot}$. Starting at z=4 from identical initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Hannah Übler , Thorsten Naab , Ludwig Oser , Michael Aumer , Laura V. Sales , Simon D. M. White

Accretion of fresh gas at a rate of ~ 1 M_{sun} yr^{-1} is necessary in star-forming disc galaxies, such as the Milky Way, in order to sustain their star-formation rates. In this work we present the results of a new hydrodynamic simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Marinacci , F. Fraternali , J. Binney , C. Nipoti , L. Ciotti , P. Londrillo

(Abridged) Heating of the interstellar medium by multiple supernovae (SNe) explosions is at the heart of producing galaxy-scale outflows. We use hydrodynamical simulations to study the efficiency of multiple SNe in heating the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Evgenii O. Vasiliev , Biman B. Nath , Yuri Shchekinov

We investigate the nature of gas accretion onto haloes and galaxies at z=2 using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run with the moving mesh code AREPO. Implementing a Monte Carlo tracer particle scheme to determine the origin and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-30 Dylan Nelson , Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Debora Sijacki , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We review here the effects of supernovae (SNe) explosions on the environment of star-forming galaxies. Randomly distributed, clustered SNe explosions cause the formation of hot superbubbles that drive either galactic fountains or supersonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-04 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , C. Melioli , A. D'Ercole , F. Brighenti , A. Raga

We analyse a sample of 52,000 Milky Way (MW) type galaxies drawn from the publicly available galaxy catalogue of the Millennium Simulation with the aim of studying statistically the differences and similarities of their properties in…

We present a systematic study of gas accretion and angular momentum in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) using high-resolution FIRE cosmological simulations. Our analysis includes halos spanning the critical $\sim 10^{12}\ \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 Imran Sultan , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère , Jonathan Stern , Guochao Sun

Motivated by the early excess of bright galaxies seen by JWST, we run zoom-in cosmological simulations of a massive galaxy at Cosmic Dawn, in a halo of $10^{11} M_\odot$ at $z = 9$, using the hydro-gravitational code RAMSES at an effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Zachary Lee Andalman , Romain Teyssier , Avishai Dekel