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We present magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the star-forming multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) in stratified galactic patches with gas surface densities $\Sigma_\mathrm{gas} =$ 10, 30, 50, and 100 $\mathrm{M_\odot\,pc^{-2}}$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Tim-Eric Rathjen , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Philipp Girichidis , Richard Wünsch

We present the first application of the angle-dependent 3-Point Correlation Function (3PCF) to the density fields magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence simulations intended to model interstellar (ISM) turbulence. Previous work has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Stephen K. N. Portillo , Zachary Slepian , Blakesley Burkhart , Sule Kahraman , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We performed one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with detailed cooling, heating and chemical processes to examine the thermal stability of shocked gas in cold neutral medium (CNM) and molecular clouds. We find that both CNM and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Takuhiro Aota , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Yuri Aikawa

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of nearby star-forming galaxies show clear indications of \ion{O}{6} absorption accompanied by little to no \ion{N}{5} absorption. This unusual spectral signature, accompanied by absorption from lower…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-17 Edward Buie , William Gray , Evan Scannapieco

The thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) contains vital information about the epoch of reionization, one of the most transformative yet poorly understood periods in the young universe. This thermal state is encoded in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Molly Wolfson , Joseph F. Hennawi , Frederick B. Davies , Jose Oñorbe , Hector Hiss , Zarija Lukić

We investigate data from the Galactic Effelsberg--Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS), supplemented with data from the third release of the Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS III) observed at Parkes. We explore the all sky distribution of the local Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 P. M. W. Kalberla , J. Kerp , U. Haud , B. Winkel , N. Ben Bekhti , L. Floeer , D. Lenz

The neutral interstellar medium (ISM) inside the Local Bubble (LB) has been known to have properties typical of the warm neutral medium (WNM). However, several recent neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption experiments show evidence for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Snezana Stanimirovic

We consider configurations of $N$ charged particles on the interval with nearest neighbour Coulomb interaction and constant external force. For different values of external force we find 4 different phases of the asymptotic particle density…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 V. A. Malyshev

We describe quantitatively the neutral hydrogen (HI) and dust content of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using the spatial power spectrum. The velocity modification of the HI density power spectrum is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Stanimirovic

We review what is currently known about the structure of interstellar material in the solar neighborhood, emphasizing how observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have improved our understanding of how interstellar gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian E. Wood , Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

In this paper, we investigate the structure of condensation fronts from warm diffuse gas to cold neutral medium (CNM) under the plane parallel geometry. The solutions have two parameters, the pressure of the CNM and the mass flux across the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Recent observations and simulations reveal that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies is multiphase, with the gas temperatures spanning a wide range at most radii, $\sim 10^4\ {\rm K}$ to the virial temperature ($\sim 10^6$ K…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-10 Alankar Dutta , Mukesh Singh Bisht , Prateek Sharma , Ritali Ghosh , Manami Roy , Biman B. Nath

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a crucial role in regulating material and energy exchange between galaxies and their environments. The best means of observing this medium is through absorption-line spectroscopy, but we have yet to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Yue Hu , Evan Scannapieco , Edward Buie , Siyao Xu , Samuel T Sebastian , Om Biswal

In this work, we have carried out a two-dimensional (2D) simulation of thermal instability (TI) in interstellar matter (ISM), considering it to be a weakly ionised inviscid plasma with radiation loss. We carry out the simulation using our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Hitendra Sarkar , Madhurjya P. Bora

Plasma turbulence at scales of the order of the ion inertial length is mediated by several mechanisms, including linear wave damping, magnetic reconnection, formation and dissipation of thin current sheets, stochastic heating. It is now…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Enrico Camporeale , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Francesco Califano , Alessandro Retinò

We present models of turbulent mixing at the boundaries between hot (T~10^{6-7} K) and warm material (T~10^4 K) in the interstellar medium, using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical code, with radiative cooling. The source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Esquivel , R. A. Benjamin , A. Lazarian , J. Cho , S. N. Leitner

Neutral hydrogen (HI) emission exhibits complex morphology that encodes rich information about the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM). We apply the scattering transform (ST) to characterize HI emission structure via a set of compact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Minjie Lei , S. E. Clark

We use hydrodynamical simulations in a $(256\;{\rm pc})^3$ periodic box to model the impact of supernova (SN) explosions on the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) for initial densities $n = 0.5-30$ cm$^{-3}$ and SN rates $1-720$…

Turbulent flows are ubiquitous in astrophysical environments, and understanding density structures and their statistics in turbulent media is of great importance in astrophysics. In this paper, we study the density power spectra,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu

It is shown that a number of key observations of the Galactic ISM can be understood, if it is treated as a highly compressible and turbulent medium energized predominantly by supernova explosions (and stellar winds). We have performed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dieter Breitschwerdt , Miguel A. de Avillez