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Low mass, self-gravitating accretion disks admit quasi-steady,`gravito-turbulent' states in which cooling balances turbulent viscous heating. However, numerical simulations show that gravito-turbulence cannot be sustained beyond dynamical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Min-Kai Lin , Kaitlin M. Kratter

We review the main results from recent numerical simulations of turbulent fragmentation and star formation. Specifically, we discuss the observed scaling relationships, the ``quiescent'' (subsonic) nature of many star-forming cores, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Javier Ballesteros-Paredes

Due to the gas rich environments of early circumstellar disks, the gravitational collapse of cool, dense regions of the disk form fragments largely composed of gas. During formation, disk fragments may attain increased metallicities as they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-26 Hans Baehr , Hubert Klahr

Several different methods are regularly used to infer the properties of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) using atomic hydrogen (H I) 21cm absorption and emission spectra. In this work, we study various techniques used for inferring ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-27 Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee , Nirupam Roy , Prateek Sharma , Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

Gravitational stability of a disc consisting of the gaseous and the stellar components are studied in the linear regime when the gaseous component is turbulent. A phenomenological approach is adopted to describe the turbulence, in which not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Mohsen Shadmehri , Fazeleh Khajenabi

We simulate the formation of molecular clouds in colliding flows of warm neutral medium with the adaptive mesh refinement code {\sc Flash}. We include a chemical network to treat heating and cooling and to follow the formation of molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-26 Michael Weis , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Shashwata Ganguly

With 2D hydrodynamical simulations, we study the evolution of the hot gas flows in early-type galaxies, focussing on the effects of galaxy rotation on the thermal and dynamical status of the ISM. The galaxy is modelled as a two-component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-28 Andrea Negri , Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti

Radiative processes play a pivotal role in shaping the thermal and chemical states of gas across diverse astrophysical environments, from the interstellar medium (ISM) to the intergalactic medium. We present a hybrid cooling model for…

We develop an unconditionally stable numerical method for solving the coupling between two fluids (frictional forces/heatings, ionization, and recombination), and investigate the dynamical condensation process of thermally unstable gas that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-20 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We study the gravitational stability of gaseous streams in the complex environment of a galaxy merger, because mergers are known to be places of ongoing massive cluster formation and bursts of star formation. We find an analytic stability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Andres Escala , Fernando Becerra , Luciano del Valle , Esteban Castillo

We compare the central mass distribution of galaxies simulated with three different models of the interstellar medium (ISM) with increasing complexity: primordial (H+He) cooling down to 10^4K, additional cooling via metal lines and to lower…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Charlotte Christensen , Fabio Governato , Thomas Quinn , Alyson M. Brooks , David B. Fisher , Sijing Shen , Jacqueline McCleary , James Wadsley

We use a series of idealized, numerical SPH simulations to study the formation and evolution of galactic, gas-rich disks forming from gas infall within dark matter halos. The temperature and density structure of the gas is varied in order…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Aumer , Andreas Burkert , Peter H. Johansson , Reinhard Genzel

We examine dense self-gravitating stellar systems dominated by a central potential, such as nuclear star clusters hosting a central supermassive black hole. Different dynamical properties of these systems evolve on vastly different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Zacharias Roupas , Bence Kocsis , Scott Tremaine

Thermal instability in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) can be responsible for the existence of cold clouds (e.g., high-velocity clouds) embedded in a hot diffuse medium (e.g., X-ray emitting gas). While many previous studies have analyzed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Izumi Seno , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Jiro Shimoda

The gravitational hydrodynamics of the primordial plasma with neutrino hot dark matter is considered as a challenge to the bottom-up cold dark matter paradigm. Viscosity and turbulence induce a top-down fragmentation scenario before and at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Carl H. Gibson , Rudy E. Schild

Spiral perturbations in a gravitationally unstable accretion disk regulate disk evolution through angular-momentum transport and heating and provide an observational signature of gravitational instability (GI). We use global 3D simulations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Wenrui Xu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone

A relativistic mean-field model of nuclear matter with arbitrary proton fraction is studied at finite temperature. An analysis is performed of the liquid-gas phase transition in a system with two conserved charges (baryon number and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Horst Mueller , Brian D. Serot

The results of study of the gravitational fragmentation in the interstellar medium (ISM) by clump-clump collisions are presented. We suggest, that collision of clumps, that are subparts of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMC) may be on of the basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 S. B. Vinogradov , P. Berczik

Most water in the universe may be superionic, and its thermodynamic and transport properties are crucial for planetary science but difficult to probe experimentally or theoretically. We use machine learning and free energy methods to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Bingqing Cheng , Mandy Bethkenhagen , Chris J. Pickard , Sebastien Hamel

Star formation is intimately linked to the dynamical evolution of molecular clouds. Turbulent fragmentation determines where and when protostellar cores form, and how they contract and grow in mass via accretion from the surrounding cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Klessen