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Galaxy-scale outflows of gas, or galactic winds (GWs), driven by energy from star formation are a pivotal mechanism for regulation of star formation in the current model of galaxy evolution. Observations of this phenomenon have proliferated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-14 David S. N. Rupke

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 study the interaction of galactic wind with hot halo gas using hydrodynamical simulations. We find that the outcome of this interaction depends crucially on the wind injection density and velocity. Various phases of the extraplanar media…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mahavir Sharma , Biman B. Nath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Yuri Shchekinov

Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics from how galaxies form and evolve to large scale structure…

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We present a new suite of large-volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulations called cosmo-OWLS. They form an extension to the OverWhelmingly Large Simulations (OWLS) project, and have been designed to help improve our understanding of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye , Trevor J. Ponman

We present results from high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of isolated SMC- and Milky Way-sized galaxies that include a model for feedback from galactic cosmic rays (CRs). We find that CRs are naturally able to drive winds with mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 C. M. Booth , Oscar Agertz , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Supernova explosions, active galactic nuclei jets, galaxy--galaxy interactions and cluster mergers can drive turbulence in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and in the intracluster medium (ICM). However, the exact nature of turbulence forced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

In recent years, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have proven their utility as key interpretative tools in the study of galaxy formation and evolution. In this work, we present a like-for-like comparison between the baryon cycle in…

The inner parsec of our Galaxy contains tens of Wolf-Rayet stars whose powerful outflows are constantly interacting while filling the region with hot, diffuse plasma. Theoretical models have shown that, in some cases, the collision of…

We present a versatile family of model galactic outflows including non-uniform mass and energy source distributions, a gravitational potential from an extended mass source, and radiative losses. The model easily produces steady-state wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Chad Bustard , Ellen G. Zweibel , Elena D'Onghia

We introduce the Virgo Consortium's EAGLE project, a suite of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the formation of galaxies and black holes in representative volumes. We discuss the limitations of such simulations in light of their…

Hydrodynamic simulations can connect outflow observables to the physical conditions of outflowing gas. Here, we use simulations of isolated disk galaxies ranging from dwarf mass ($M_{200} = 10^{10}\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$) to Milky Way mass…

We present three-dimensional, adaptive mesh simulations of dwarf galaxy out- flows driven by supersonic turbulence. Here we develop a subgrid model to track not only the thermal and bulk velocities of the gas, but also its turbulent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

We present a semi-analytic treatment of galactic winds within high resolution, large scale cosmological N-body simulations of a LCDM Universe. The evolution of winds is investigated by following the expansion of supernova driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Serena Bertone , Felix Stoehr , Simon D. M. White

We present an extension of the massively parallel, GPU native, astrophysical hydrodynamics code Cholla to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Cholla solves the ideal MHD equations in their Eulerian form on a static Cartesian mesh utilizing the Van…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-03 Robert V. Caddy , Evan E. Schneider

This work presents a study of galactic outflows driven by stellar feedback. We extract main sequence disc galaxies with stellar mass $10^9\le$ M$_{\star}/$M$_{\odot} \le 5.7\times10^{10}$ at redshift $z=0$ from the highest resolution…

Galaxy formation models within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations contain numerous parameters with non-trivial influences over the resulting properties of simulated cosmic structures and galaxy populations. It is computationally…

Using reconstructed initial conditions in the SDSS survey volume, we carry out constrained hydrodynamic simulations in three regions representing different types of the cosmic web: the Coma cluster of galaxies; the SDSS great wall; and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Renjie Li , Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Shuiyao Huang , Neal Katz , Xiong Luo , Weiguang Cui , Hao Li , Xiaohu Yang , Ning Jiang , Yuning Zhang

Galactic winds exhibit a multiphase structure that consists of hot-diffuse and cold-dense phases. Here we present high-resolution idealised simulations of the interaction of a hot supersonic wind with a cold cloud with the moving-mesh code…

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