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In this paper we study the process of the subsequent (runaway) fragmentation of the rotating isothermal Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) complex. Our own developed Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) gas-dynamical model successfully reproduce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Berczik , M. I. Petrov

The evolution of substructure embedded in non-dissipative dark halos is studied through N-body simulations of isolated systems, both in and out of initial equilibrium, complementing cosmological simulations of the growth of structure. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Zhang , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Massimo Stiavelli , Joseph Silk

We present high-resolution (~ 4") 12CO (J = 1 - 0) mapping observations with high - velocity resolution (~ 2.6 km s^{-1}) toward the disk of flocculent galaxy NGC 5055, using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array in order to study the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomoka Tosaki , Yasuhiro Shioya , Nario Kuno , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Takashi Hasegawa

By resimulating a region of a global disc simulation at higher resolution, we resolve and study the properties of molecular clouds with a range of masses from a few 100's M$_{\odot}$ to $10^6$ M$_{\odot}$. The purpose of our paper is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Clare L. Dobbs

Molecular clouds are supported by turbulence and magnetic fields, but quantifying their influence on cloud lifecycle and star formation efficiency (SFE) remains an open question. We perform radiation MHD simulations of star-forming giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , Nina Filippova

Two selected regions in the molecular gas spiral arms in M51 were mapped with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) mm-interferometer in the 12CO(2-1), 13CO(1-0), C18O(1-0), HCN(1-0) and HCO+(1-0) emission lines. The CO data have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Schinnerer , A. Weiss , S. Aalto , N. Z. Scoville

Radiation feedback from young star clusters embedded in giant molecular clouds (GMCs) is believed to be important to the control of star formation. For the most massive and dense clouds, including those in which super star clusters (SSCs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 M. Aaron Skinner , Eve C. Ostriker

Could the velocity spread, increasing with time, in the Galactic disk be explained as a result of gravitational interactions of stars with giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and spiral arms? Do the old open clusters high above the Galactic plane…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Bengt Gustafsson , Ross Church , Melvyn B. Davies , Hans Rickman

We present numerical simulations of the passage of clumpy gas through a galactic spiral shock and the subsequent formation of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). The spiral shock forms dense clouds while dissipating kinetic energy, producing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. A. Bonnell , C. L. Dobbs , T. R. Robitaille , J. E. Pringle

We use two hydrodynamical simulations (with and without photoionising feedback) of the self-consistent evolution of molecular clouds (MCs) undergoing global hierarchical collapse (GHC), to study the effect of the feedback on the structural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-25 Alejandro González-Samaniego , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

CO clouds can be non-self-gravitating in high pressure environments, while most should be strongly self-gravitating at low metallicities and ambient pressures. In the LMC, which is HI-rich, GMC formation and destruction should generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Tidal encounters are believed to be one of the key drivers of galactic spiral structure in the Universe. Such spirals are expected to produce different morphological and kinematic features compared to density wave and dynamic spiral arms.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Alex R. Pettitt , Elizabeth J. Tasker , James W. Wadsley , Ben W. Keller , Samantha M. Benincasa

We present the results of a series of numerical simulations aimed to study the evolution of a disc galaxy within the global tidal field of a group environment. Both the disc galaxy and the group are modelled as multi-component,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Álvaro Villalobos , Gabriella De Lucia , Stefano Borgani , Giuseppe Murante

Interplanetary evolution of eleven magnetic clouds (MCs) recorded by at least two radially aligned spacecraft is studied. The in situ magnetic field measurements are fitted to a cylindrically symmetric Gold-Hoyle force-free uniform-twist…

Feedback from massive stars is believed to play a critical role in shaping the galaxy mass function, the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM), and the low efficiency of star formation, but the exact form of the feedback is uncertain.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

The evolution of three-dimensional, large-scale, magnetic fields, in a galactic disk is investigated numerically. The N-body simulations of galactic dynamics are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations to study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , S. von Linden , H. Lesch , G. Skupniewicz

Radiative feedback is an important consequence of cluster formation in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in which newly formed clusters heat and ionize their surrounding gas. The process of cluster formation, and the role of radiative feedback,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Corey Howard , Ralph Pudritz , William Harris

In a series of papers, we present detailed chemo-dynamical simulations of tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs). After the first paper, where we focused on the very early evolution, we present in this work simulations on the long-term evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Sylvia Ploeckinger , Simone Recchi , Gerhard Hensler , Pavel Kroupa

We propose a simple analytic theory for environmentally-dependent molecular cloud lifetimes, based on the large-scale (galactic) dynamics of the interstellar medium. Within this theory, the cloud lifetime is set by the time-scales for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Sarah M. R. Jeffreson , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer