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For mature spiral galaxies, the rotation velocities quickly increase from the galactic center and achieve a constant velocity from the core to the periphery. This dynamic behavior is described by models balancing Newtonian gravitational and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-02 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

Cluster galaxies moving through the intracluster medium (ICM) are expected to lose some of their interstellar medium (ISM) through ISM-ICM interactions. We perform high resolution (40 pc) three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Stephanie Tonnesen , Greg L. Bryan

Non-circular (NC) motions represent the imprints of non-axisymmetric structures in galaxies, providing opportunities to study the physical properties of gas departing from circular rotation. In this work, we have conducted a systematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-31 Carlos Lopez-Coba , Lihwai Lin , Justus Neumann , Matthew A. Bershady

We discuss the stability of galactic disks in which the energy of interstellar clouds is gained in encounters with expanding supernova remnants and lost in inelastic collisions. Energy gain and loss processes introduce a phase difference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adi Nusser

It is generally assumed that gas in a galactic disk follows closely non self-intersecting periodic stellar orbits. In order to test this common assumption, we have performed MHD simulations of a galactic-like disk under the influence of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Gilberto C. Gómez , Bárbara Pichardo , Marco A. Martos

An accurate computational method is presented to determine the mass distribution in a rotating thin-disk galaxy from given rotation curve by applying Newtonian dynamics for an axisymmetrically rotating thin disk of finite size with or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-17 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

We investigate the gravitational instability of galactic discs, treating stars and cold interstellar gas as two distinct components, and taking into account the phenomenology of turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM), i.e. the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-29 Volker Hoffmann , Alessandro B. Romeo

We study the hydrodynamical evolution of galactic winds in disky dwarf galaxies moving through an intergalactic medium. In agreement with previous investigations,we find that when the ram pressure stripping does not disrupt the ISM, it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Marcolini , Fabrizio Brighenti , Annibale D'Ercole

Galaxies are observed to obey a strict set of dynamical scaling relations. We review these relations for rotationally supported disk galaxies spanning many decades in mass, surface brightness, and gas content. The behavior of these widely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Stacy McGaugh , Federico Lelli , Pengfei Li , Jim Schombert

We study the z=0 gas kinematics, morphology, and angular momentum content of isolated galaxies in a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project spanning $M_{\star}=10^{6-11}M_{\odot}$. Gas becomes increasingly…

Galaxies in clusters are gas-deficient and a number of possible explanations for this observation have been advanced, including galaxy-cluster tidal interactions, galaxy harassment, and ISM-ICM gas stripping. In this paper, we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephanie Tonnesen , Greg L. Bryan , J. H. van Gorkom

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

[Abridged] The gas distribution in galaxies is smooth on large scales, but is usually time-dependent and inhomogeneous on smaller scales. The time-dependence originates from processes such as cloud formation, their collisions, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Rain Kipper , Indrek Vurm , Aikaterini Niovi Triantafyllaki , Peeter Tenjes , Elmo Tempel

Observations suggest a slower stellar rotation relative to gas rotation in the outer part of the Milky Way Galaxy. This difference could be attributed to an interaction with the interstellar magnetic field. In a simple model, fields of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Joanna Jałocha , Łukasz Bratek , Jan Pękala , Szymon Sikora , Marek Kutschera

Fractal structures and non-Gaussian velocity distributions are characteristic properties commonly observed in virialized self-gravitating systems such as galaxies or interstellar molecular clouds. We study the origin of these properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Yasuhide Sota , Osamu Iguchi , Masahiro Morikawa , Takayuki Tatekawa , Kei-ichi Maeda

Feedback from massive stars is believed to play a critical role in shaping the galaxy mass function, the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM), and the low efficiency of star formation, but the exact form of the feedback is uncertain.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

Massive molecular gas has been discovered in giant elliptical galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters. To reveal its role in active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in those galaxies, we construct a semianalytical model of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-10 Yutaka Fujita , Nozomu Kawakatu , Hiroshi Nagai

In recent years, a growing number of regularly rotating galaxy discs have been found at z $\geq$ 4. Such systems provide us with the unique opportunity to study the properties of dark matter halos at these early epochs, the turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-26 Fernanda Roman-Oliveira , Francesca Rizzo , Filippo Fraternali

We investigate the kinematics of the molecular gas in a sample of seven edge-on (i>60{\deg}) galaxies identified as hosting large-scale outflows of ionised gas, using ALMA CO(1-0) observations at ~ 1kpc resolution. We build on Hogarth et…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Lucy M. Hogarth , Amelie Saintonge , Tim A. Davis

Rotation curves constrain a galaxy's underlying mass density profile, under the assumption that the observed rotation produces a centripetal force that exactly balances the inward force of gravity. However, most rotation curves are measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. J. Dalcanton , A. Stilp