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Interstellar gas clouds are often both highly magnetized and supersonically turbulent, with velocity dispersions set by a competition between driving and dissipation. This balance has been studied extensively in the context of gases with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-19 Yuval Birnboim , Christoph Federrath , Mark Krumholz

Context. It is almost banal to say that the interstellar medium (ISM) is structurally and thermodynamically complex. But the variety of the governing processes, including stellar feedback, renders the investigation challenging. High…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-30 Marco Monaci , Loris Magnani , Steven N. Shore , Henrik Olofsson , Mackenzie R. Joy

We present a self-consistent hydrodynamical simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy, at the resolution of 0.05 pc. The model includes star formation and a new implementation of stellar feedback through photo-ionization, radiative pressure and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 F. Renaud , F. Bournaud , E. Emsellem , B. Elmegreen , R. Teyssier , J. Alves , D. Chapon , F. Combes , A. Dekel , J. Gabor , P. Hennebelle , K. Kraljic

Context. Traditionally, supersonic turbulence is considered to be one of the most likely mechanisms to slow down the gravitational collapse in dense clumps, thereby enabling the formation of massive stars. However, several recent studies…

A program is outlined, and first results described, in which fully three-dimensional, time dependent simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence are used as a basis for theoretical investigation of the physics of turbulence in stars. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. David Arnett , Casey Meakin

The author presents a model for variability of the flux and polarization of blazars in which turbulent plasma flowing at a relativistic speed down a jet crosses a standing conical shock. The shock compresses the plasma and accelerates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Alan P. Marscher

A roughly constant temperature over a wide range of densities is maintained in molecular clouds through radiative heating and cooling. An isothermal equation of state is therefore frequently employed in molecular cloud simulations. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Pavlovski , M. D. Smith , M. -M. Mac Low

We investigate the feedback of the stellar jets on the surrounding interstellar gas based on 2D and 3D simulations applying HD and MHD module of PLUTO 4.2 code. The main question we address is whether the stellar jet can be considered as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Somayeh Sheikhnezami , Mohsen Abgharian-Afoushteh

We study the properties of ISM substructure and turbulence in hydrodynamic (AMR) galaxy simulations with resolutions up to 0.8 pc and 5x10^3 Msun. We analyse the power spectrum of the density distribution, and various components of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Frederic Bournaud , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Romain Teyssier , David L. Block , Ivanio Puerari

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters provide insights on the nature of gaseous turbulent motions, their physical scales and on the fundamental processes they are related to. Spatially-resolved, high-resolution spectral measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 N. Clerc , E. Cucchetti , E. Pointecouteau , P. Peille

We use the EAGLE cosmological simulations to study the evolution of the vertical velocity dispersion of cold gas, $\sigma_{z}$, in central disc galaxies and its connection to stellar feedback, gravitational instabilities, cosmological gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Esteban Jiménez , Claudia del P. Lagos , Aaron D. Ludlow , Emily Wisnioski

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

The equilibrium state of a turbulent clumpy gas disk is analytically investigated. The disk consists of distinct self-gravitating clouds. Gravitational cloud-cloud interactions transfer energy over spatial scales and produce a viscosity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , T. Beckert

By performing a global magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation for the Milky Way with an axisymmetric gravitational potential, we propose that spatially dependent amplification of magnetic fields possibly explains the observed noncircular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Takeru K. Suzuki , Yasuo Fukui , Kazufumi Torii , Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , Kensuke Kakiuchi

Thermal instability in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) can be responsible for the existence of cold clouds (e.g., high-velocity clouds) embedded in a hot diffuse medium (e.g., X-ray emitting gas). While many previous studies have analyzed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Izumi Seno , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Jiro Shimoda

Supersonic turbulence is a large reservoir of suprathermal energy in the interstellar medium. Its dissipation, because it is intermittent in space and time, can deeply modify the chemistry of the gas. We further explore a hybrid method to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin Godard , Edith Falgarone , Guillaume Pineau Des Forêts

This is the first attempt to construct detailed X-ray spectra of clusters of galaxies from the results of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations and simulate X-ray observations in order to study velocity fields of the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yutaka Fujita , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Keiichi Wada , Tae Furusho

In recent works, we proposed a hypothesis, according to which turbulence in gases is created by the mean field effect of an intermolecular potential. We discovered that, in a numerically simulated inertial flow, turbulent solutions indeed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-18 Rafail V. Abramov

We explore the gravitational instability of clumpy and turbulent gas discs, taking into account the Larson-type scaling laws observed in giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and HI, as well as more general scaling relations. This degree of freedom…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alessandro B. Romeo , Andreas Burkert , Oscar Agertz

In interstellar medium studies, separating ordered and random velocity or magnetic fields is essential for interpreting turbulence in both simulations and observations. We investigate how the choice of averaging scale affects the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 A. Konstantinou , E. Ntormousi , K. Tassis