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Gravitational instabilities play an important role in galaxy evolution and in shaping the interstellar medium (ISM). The ISM is observed to be highly turbulent, meaning that observables like the gas surface density and velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Oscar Agertz , Alessandro B. Romeo , Kearn Grisdale

High-redshift star-forming galaxies often have irregular morphologies with {\it giant clumps} containing up to $10^{8-9}$ solar masses of gas and stars. The origin and evolution of giant clumps are debated both theoretically and…

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Galaxies are not isolated systems; they continuously interact with their surroundings by ejecting gas via stellar feedback and accreting gas from the environment. Understanding the interplay between outflows from the disc and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Filippo Barbani , Raffaele Pascale , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Laura V. Sales , Hui Li , Mark Vogelsberger

Nuclear Clusters (NCs) are common stellar systems in the centres of galaxies. Yet, the physical mechanisms involved in their formation are still debated. Using a parsec-resolution hydrodynamical simulation of a dwarf galaxy, we propose an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-01 Nicolas Guillard , Eric Emsellem , Florent Renaud

Using high-resolution, three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the structure of the interstellar medium in the central hundred pc region in galaxies, taking into account self-gravity of the gas, radiative cooling from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiichi Wada

We analyze the physical properties and infall rates of the circum-galactic gas around disks obtained in multi-resolved, cosmological, AMR simulations. At intermediate and low redshifts, disks are embedded into an extended, hot, tenuous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stephanie Courty , Brad K. Gibson , Romain Teyssier

Feedback from supernovae is essential to understanding the self-regulation of star formation in galaxies. However, the efficacy of the process in a cosmological context remains unclear due to excessive radiative losses during the shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Taysun Kimm , Renyue Cen , Julien Devriendt , Yohan Dubois , Adrianne Slyz

Stars with circumstellar disks may form in environments with high stellar and gas densities which affects the disks through processes like truncation from dynamical encounters, ram pressure stripping, and external photoevaporation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-20 Francisca Concha-Ramírez , Eero Vaher , Simon Portegies Zwart

Star formation from the interstellar medium of galactic disks is a basic process controlling the evolution of galaxies. Understanding the star formation rate in a local patch of a disk with a given gas mass is thus an important challenge…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Romain Teyssier , Joakim Rosdahl , Sven Van Loo , Sarah Nickerson

Galactic disks consist of both stars and gas. The gas is more dynamically responsive than the stars, and strongly nonlinear structures and velocities can develop in the ISM even while stellar surface density perturbations remain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Gas blown away from galactic disks by supernova (SN) feedback plays a key role in galaxy evolution. We investigate outflows utilizing the solar neighborhood model of our high-resolution, local galactic disk simulation suite, TIGRESS. In our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Star-forming disk galaxies at high redshift are often subject to violent disk instability, characterized by giant clumps whose fate is yet to be understood. The main question is whether the clumps disrupt within their dynamical timescale…

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

We present results from the "Ponos" simulation suite on the early evolution of a massive, $M_{\rm vir}(z=0)=1.2\times 10^{13}$ M$_{\odot}$ galaxy. At $z\gtrsim6$, before feedback from a central supermassive black hole becomes dominant, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 Davide Fiacconi , Lucio Mayer , Piero Madau , Alessandro Lupi , Massimo Dotti , Francesco Haardt

We used an N-body smoothed particle hydrodynamics algorithm, with a detailed treatment of star formation, supernovae feedback, and chemical enrichment, to perform eight simulations of mergers between gas-rich disc galaxies. We vary the mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Simon Richard , Chris B. Brook , Hugo Martel , Daisuke Kawata , Brad K. Gibson , Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez

We use a high-resolution grid-based hydrodynamics method to simulate the multi-phase interstellar medium in a Milky Way-size quiescent disk galaxy. The models are global and three-dimensional, and include a treatment of star formation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan

Past studies have long emphasised the key role played by galactic stellar bars in the context of disc secular evolution, via the redistribution of gas and stars, the triggering of star formation, and the formation of prominent structures…

We present hydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of self-gravitating dense gas on scales of 1 kiloparsec down to < parsec in a galactic disk, designed to study dense clump formation from giant molecular clouds (GMCs). These structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Sven Van Loo , Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan

We report the finding of a linear, non-axisymmetric, global instability in gas discs around stars, which may be relevant to other astrophysical discs. It takes the form of an $m=1$ mode that grows in the disc density distribution while the…

Dynamical interactions between colliding spiral galaxies strongly affect the state and distribution of their interstellar gas. Observations indicate that interactions funnel gas toward the nuclei, fueling bursts of star formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Kelly Blumenthal , Joshua Barnes