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We investigate the operation of the chemothermal instability in primordial star-forming clouds with a suite of three-dimensional, moving-mesh simulations. In line with previous studies, we find that the gas at the centre of high-redshift…

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Cold gas clouds embedded in a hot, turbulent medium are expected to be short-lived due to disruptive hydrodynamic instabilities. However, radiative cooling might allow such clouds to survive and grow. We present 3D \texttt{Athena++}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-17 Ashwin Vergis George , Hitesh Kishore Das , Max Gronke

Both absorption and emission line studies show that cold gas around galaxies is commonly outflowing at speeds of several hundred km$\,\textrm{s}^{-1}$. This observational fact poses a severe challenge to our theoretical models of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

We revisit the problem of the growth of dense/cold gas in the cloud-crushing setup with radiative cooling. The relative motion between the dense cloud and the diffuse medium produces a turbulent boundary layer of mixed gas with a short…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-23 Vijit Kanjilal , Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma

We study the solid-to-liquid transition in a two-dimensional fully periodic soft-glassy model with an imposed spatially heterogeneous stress. The model we consider consists of droplets of a dispersed phase jammed together in a continuous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-06 Matteo Lulli , Roberto Benzi , Mauro Sbragaglia

Employing XMM-Newton EPIC data we perform a detailed comparison between different spectral models to test whether the gas in cooling-flows is multi-phase or not. Our findings all point in the same direction, namely that gas in cooling-flows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Silvano Molendi , Fabio Pizzolato

We perform linear analysis of thermal instability in a contracting large cloud filled with warm HI gas and investigate the effect of metallicity and radiation flux. When the cloud reaches critical density n_f, the cloud fragments into cool,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Motomichi Tashiro , Ryoichi Nishi

Ubiquitous detections of cold/warm gas around galaxies indicate that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase and dynamic. Recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations have generally underproduced the column density of cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Cameron J. Liang , Ian S. Remming

Recent years have seen excellent progress in modeling the entrainment of T $\sim$ $10^4$K atomic gas in galactic winds. However, the entrainment of cool, dusty T $\sim$ 10-100K molecular gas, which is also observed outflowing at high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Zirui Chen , S. Peng Oh

Understanding the survival, growth and dynamics of cold gas is fundamental to galaxy formation. While there has been a plethora of work on `wind tunnel' simulations that study such cold gas in winds, the infall of this gas under gravity is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Brent Tan , S. Peng Oh , Max Gronke

Cold, non-self-gravitating clumps occur in various astrophysical systems, ranging from the interstellar and circumgalactic medium (CGM), to AGN outflows and solar coronal loops. Cold gas has diverse origins such as turbulent mixing or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-23 Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma , Dylan Nelson

We present results from a detailed simulation of a quasi-2D dissipative granular gas, kept in a non-condensed steady state via vertical shaking over a rough substrate. This gas shows a weak power-law decay in the tails of its Pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 J. A. Perera-Burgos , G. Perez-Angel , Y. Nahmad-Molinari

Galactic and intergalactic flows often exhibit relative motion between the cold dense gas and the hot diffuse medium. Such multiphase flows -- involving gas at different temperatures, densities, and ionization states -- for instance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-07 Ritali Ghosh , Max Gronke , Prateek Sharma , Alankar Dutta

We employ hydrodynamic equations to follow the clustering instability of a freely cooling dilute gas of inelastically colliding spheres into a well-developed nonlinear regime. We simplify the problem by dealing with a one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Efi Efrati , Eli Livne , Baruch Meerson

We study gravitational collapse of low-metallicity gas clouds and the formation of protostars by three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. Grain growth, non-equilibrium chemistry, molecular cooling, and chemical heating are solved in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-30 Gen Chiaki , Naoki Yoshida , Shingo Hirano

To better understand the nature of the multiphase material found in outflowing galaxies, we study the evolution of cold clouds embedded in flows of hot and fast material. Using a suite of adaptive-mesh refinement simulations that include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

Gas cloud models taking into account the recently disclosed fractal structure of cold gas are set up, showing that large errors in the classical gas mass determination based on smooth cloud models can easily follow if the gas is in reality…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 D. Pfenniger , F. Combes

Using X-ray constrained beta-models for the radial distribution of gas in the outskirts of galaxies, we analyze the termination of galactic winds and the formation and evolution of halo clouds by thermal instability. At low mass-loss rates,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-15 Michael Shull , Jacob A. Moss

Gas in the central regions of cool-core clusters and other massive halos has a short cooling time ($\lesssim1~\mathrm{Gyr}$). Theoretical models predict that this gas is susceptible to multiphase condensation, in which cold gas is expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-30 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Prateek Sharma , Christoph Federrath , Eliot Quataert