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We study cosmic-ray acceleration in a supernova remnant (SNR) and the escape from it. We model nonthermal particle and photon spectra for the hidden SNR in the open cluster Westerlund 2, and the old-age mixed-morphology SNR W 28. We assume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

Frequent supernova explosions in compact starburst regions are a main shaper of these regions' interstellar media (ISM). In most starbursts, the supernova remnants blast open a hot phase that fills the regions and launches a superwind.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Brian C. Lacki

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

An important result in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) theory is that spherically-symmetric, one-dimensional simulations routinely fail to explode, yet multi-dimensional simulations often explode. Numerical investigations suggest that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-28 Quintin Mabanta , Jeremiah W. Murphy

In this paper we explore the relationship between protostellar outflows and turbulence in molecular clouds. Using 3-D numerical simulations we focus on the hydrodynamics of multiple outflows interacting within a parsec scale volume. We…

Supernova explosions (SNe) are among the most energetic events in the Universe. After the explosion, the material ejected by the Supernova expands throughout the interstellar medium (ISM) forming what is called Supernova Remnant (SNR).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Giuseppe Prete , Silvia Perri , Claudio Meringolo , Leonardo Primavera , Sergio Servidio

Turbulence plays an important role in astrophysical phenomena, including core-collapse supernovae (CCSN), but current simulations must rely on subgrid models since direct numerical simulation (DNS) is too expensive. Unfortunately, existing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Platon I. Karpov , Chengkun Huang , Iskandar Sitdikov , Chris L. Fryer , Stan Woosley , Ghanshyam Pilania

Context. The circumnuclear disk (CND) is presently the main supply of mass for the accretion onto the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the Galactic Center (GC). While the accretion is relatively slow, it has been suspected that local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Barnabas Barna , Richard Wünsch , Jan Palous , Mark R. Morris , Sona Ehlerová , Pierre Vermot

Neutrino-driven convection plays a crucial role in the development of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions. However, the complex mechanism that triggers the shock revival and the subsequent explosion has remained inscrutable for many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jordi Casanova , Eirik Endeve , Eric J. Lentz , O. E. Bronson Messer , W. Raphael Hix , J. Austin Harris , Stephen W. Bruenn

Externally driven interstellar turbulence plays an important role in shaping the density structure in molecular clouds. Here we study the dynamical role of internally driven turbulence in a self-gravitating molecular cloud core. Depending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

Galactic-scale simulations rely on sub-grid models to provide prescriptions for the coupling between supernova (SN) feedback and the interstellar medium (ISM). Many of these models are computed in 1-D to allow for an efficient way to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Ian A. Bonnell

We have computed line emission cooling rates for the main cooling species in models of interstellar molecular clouds. The models are based on numerical simulations of super-sonic magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Non-LTE radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Juvela , P. Padoan , A Nordlund

Recently reported variations in the typical physical properties of Galactic and extra-Galactic molecular clouds (MCs), and in their ability to form stars have been attributed to local variations in the magnitude of interstellar pressure.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 S. Anathpindika , A. Burkert , R. Kuiper

Young stars typically form in star clusters, so the supernovae (SNe) they produce are clustered in space and time. This clustering of SNe may alter the momentum per SN deposited in the interstellar medium (ISM) by affecting the local ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-24 Eric S. Gentry , Mark R. Krumholz , Avishai Dekel , Piero Madau

The diffuse interstellar medium is dynamic, and its chemistry and evolution is determined by shock fronts as well as photodissociation. Shocks are implied by the supersonic motions and velocity dispersion often statistically called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 William T. Reach , Carl Heiles

The explosion of a supernovae (SN) represents the sudden injection of about 10^51 ergs of thermal and mechanical energy in a small region of space, causing the formation of powerful shock waves that propagate through the interstellar medium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-04 Gloria Dubner

Turbulence governs the fragmentation of molecular clouds and plays a pivotal role in star formation. The persistence of observed cloud turbulence suggests it does not decay significantly within the turnover timescale, implying a recurrent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-15 Shibo Yuan , Hua-Bai Li

{It has recently been proposed that giant molecular complexes form at the sites where streams of diffuse warm atomic gas collide at transonic velocities.} {We study the global statistics of molecular clouds formed by large scale colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Banerjee , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , R. Klessen , E. Audit

We investigate the role of supernova (SN)-driven galactic winds in the chemical enrichment of the intracluster medium (ICM). Such outflows on galactic scales have their origin in huge star forming regions and expel metal enriched material…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Verena Baumgartner , Dieter Breitschwerdt

Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) are observed to be turbulent, but theory shows that without a driving mechanism turbulence should quickly decay. The question arises by which mechanisms turbulence is driven or sustained. It has been shown that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-01 D. M. Boneberg , J. E. Dale , P. Girichidis , B. Ercolano