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Recent observations by Chandra and XMM-Newton demonstrate that the central gas in "cooling flow" galaxy clusters has a mass cooling rate that decreases rapidly with decreasing temperature. This contrasts the predictions of a steady state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker , S. Pellegrini

Turbulence is a prevalent phenomenon in the interstellar medium, and in particular, the environment at the centers of galaxies. For example, detailed observations of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) revealed that it has a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-07 Jesus M. Salas , Mark R. Morris , Smadar Naoz

There is considerable evidence for widespread subsonic turbulence in galaxy clusters, most notably from {\it Hitomi}. Turbulence is often invoked to offset radiative losses in cluster cores, both by direct dissipation and by enabling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Chaoran Wang , S. Peng Oh , M. Ruszkowski

In recent years, a growing number of regularly rotating galaxy discs have been found at z $\geq$ 4. Such systems provide us with the unique opportunity to study the properties of dark matter halos at these early epochs, the turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-26 Fernanda Roman-Oliveira , Francesca Rizzo , Filippo Fraternali

We investigate the evolution of intracluster medium during a cluster merger, explicitly considering the relaxation process between the ions and electrons by N-body and hydrodynamical simulations. When two subclusters collide each other, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Motokazu Takizawa

The effect of turbulence on the mass and heat transfer between small heavy inertial particles (HIP) and an embedding fluid is studied. Two effects are identified. The first effect is due to the relative velocity between the fluid and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-18 Nils Erland L. Haugen , Jonas Kruger , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Terese Løvås

Giant radio halos in galaxy clusters probe mechanisms of particle acceleration connected with cluster merger events. Shocks and turbulence are driven in the inter-galactic-medium (IGM) during clusters mergers and may have a deep impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Brunetti

We present 50 individual measurements of the gas temperature and turbulent velocity in the local interstellar medium (LISM) within 100 pc. By comparing the absorption line widths of many ions with different atomic masses, we can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

Continued star formation over the lifetime of a galaxy suggests that low metalicity gas is steadily flowing in from the circumgalactic medium. Also, cosmological simulations of large-scale structure formation imply that gas is accreted onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Itzhak Goldman , Robert Fleck

We summarise observations and our current understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies, which mainly consists of three phases: cold atomic or molecular gas and clouds, warm neutral or ionised gas, and hot ionised gas. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Manami Sasaki , Gabriele Ponti , Jonathan Mackey

We performed a set of cosmological simulations of major mergers in galaxy clusters to study the evolution of merger shocks and the subsequent injection of turbulence in the post-shock region and in the intra-cluster medium (ICM). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. Paul , L. Iapichino , F. Miniati , J. Bagchi , K. Mannheim

The interstellar medium is a multiphase gas in which turbulent support is as important as thermal pressure. Sustaining this configuration requires both continuous turbulent stirring and continuous radiative cooling to match the decay of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Evan Scannapieco

Galaxy formation depends on a complex interplay between gravitational collapse, gas accretion, merging, and feedback processes. Yet, after many decades of investigation, these concepts are poorly understood. This paper presents the argument…

The thermodynamics of the diffuse, X-ray emitting gas in clusters of galaxies is determined by gravitational processes associated with shock heating, adiabatic compression, and non-gravitational processes such as heating by SNe, stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Tozzi , Colin Norman

We present a numerical and analytical study of the thermal fragmentation of a turbulent flow of interstellar hydrogen. We first present the different dynamical processes and the large range of spatial (and temporal) scales that need to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Audit , P. Hennebelle

In this work, we explore the link between star formation, turbulence and the thermal state of the multi-phase ISM. We analyse a suite of stratified box simulations modelling a realistic ISM that aims to probe environments similar to those…

We use three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations to study phase transformations occurring in a clumpy interstellar gas exposed to time-dependent volumetric heating. To mimic conditions in the Galactic interstellar medium, we take…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

Evolutions of X-ray clusters of galaxies are studied by N-body (shell model) + mesh code (TVD) simulations on the assumption of spherical symmetry. We consider a density perturbation of $10^{15} M_{\odot}$ composed of dark matter and gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Motokazu Takizawa , Shin Mineshige

The diffuse hot medium inside clusters of galaxies typically exhibits turbulent motions whose amplitude increases with radius, as revealed by cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. However, its physical origin remains unclear. It could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin Lau

Momentum deposition by radiation pressure from young, massive stars may help to destroy molecular clouds and unbind stellar clusters by driving large-scale outflows. We extend our previous numerical radiation hydrodynamic study of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Sudhir Raskutti , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner