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We explore the regulation of star formation in star-forming galaxies through a suite of high-resolution isolated galaxy simulations. We use the SPH code GASOLINE, including photoelectric heating and metal cooling, which produces a…

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We investigate the impact of galactic outflow modelling on the formation and evolution of a disc galaxy, by performing a suite of cosmological simulations with zoomed-in initial conditions of a Milky Way-sized halo. We verify how sensitive…

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 simulate cosmic chemical enrichment with a hydrodynamical model including supernova and hypernova feedback. We find that the majority of stars in present-day massive galaxies formed in much smaller galaxies at high redshifts, despite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chiaki Kobayashi

Galactic superbubbles are triggered by stellar feedback in the discs of star-forming galaxies. They are important in launching galactic winds, which play a key role in regulating the mass and energy exchange in galaxies. Observations can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Osmer Suárez-López , Andrés S. Villares , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

We demonstrate that the feedback from stellar bulges can play an essential role in shaping the halo gas of galaxies with substantial bulge components by conducting 1-D hydrodynamical simulations. The feedback model we consider consists of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Shikui Tang , Q. Daniel Wang , Yu Lu , H. J. Mo

We present an analysis of the galaxy-scale gaseous outflows from the FIRE (Feedback in Realistic Environments) simulations. This suite of hydrodynamic cosmological zoom simulations resolves formation of star-forming giant molecular clouds…

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Governato , Beth Willman , Lucio Mayer

We compare the properties of galaxies that form in a cosmological simulation without strong feedback to observations at z=0. We confirm previous findings that models without strong feedback overproduce the observed galaxy baryonic mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dušan Kereš , Neal Katz , Romeel Dave , Mark Fardal , David H. Weinberg

We introduce a new model for the structure and evolution of the gas in galactic discs. In the model the gas is in vertical pressure and energy balance. Star formation feedback injects energy and momentum, and non-axisymmetric torques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Mark R. Krumholz , Blakesley Burkhart , John C. Forbes , Roland M. Crocker

We numerically simulate some of the most critical physical processes in galaxy formation: The supernova feedback, in conjunction with gasdynamics and gravity, plays a crucial role in determining how galaxies arise within the context of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. Yepes , R. Kates , A. Khokhlov , A. Klypin

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

We introduce the Stars and MUltiphase Gas in GaLaxiEs -- SMUGGLE model, an explicit and comprehensive stellar feedback model for the moving-mesh code arepo. This novel sub-resolution model resolves the multiphase gas structure of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Federico Marinacci , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Paul Torrey , Volker Springel

We describe high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of three approximately $M_*$ field galaxies starting from \LCDM initial conditions. The simulations are made intentionally simple, and include photoionization,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , George Efstathiou

We present a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of a representative volume of the Universe, as part of the Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context (MaGICC) project. MaGICC uses a thermal implementation for supernova and early stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-02 Rahul Kannan , Greg S. Stinson , Andrea V. Macciò , Chris Brook , Simone M. Weinmann , James Wadsley , H. M. P. Couchman

We have developed a new scheme to treat a multiphase interstellar medium in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation. This scheme can represent a co-spatial mixture of cold and hot ISM components, and is formulated…

We have performed hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation in a LCDM universe. We have followed galaxy formation in a dark matter halo, chosen to have a relatively quiet recent merger history, using different models for star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Okamoto , Vince R. Eke , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins

We present a suite of six high-resolution chemo-dynamical simulations of isolated galaxies, spanning observed disk-dominated environments on the star-forming main sequence, as well as quenched, bulge-dominated environments. We compare and…

[abridged]We use 3D cosmological simulations with radiative transfer to study the formation and evolution of the first galaxies in a LCDM cosmology. We find that the first luminous objects ("small-halos") are characterized by a bursting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Massimo Ricotti , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , J. Michael Shull

The formation of stars from gas drives the evolution of galaxies. Yet, it remains one of the hardest processes to understand when trying to connect observations of stellar and galaxy populations to models of large scale structure formation.…

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