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In galaxy formation simulations, it is increasingly common to represent supernovae (SNe) at finite resolution (when the Sedov-Taylor phase is unresolved) via hybrid energy-momentum coupling with some 'terminal momentum' $p_{\rm term}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Philip F. Hopkins

It is well known that gas in galaxy discs is highly turbulent, but there is much debate on which mechanism can energetically maintain this turbulence. Among the possible candidates, supernova (SN) explosions are likely the primary drivers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Cecilia Bacchini , Filippo Fraternali , Giuliano Iorio , Gabriele Pezzulli , Antonino Marasco , Carlo Nipoti

Galactic-scale simulations rely on sub-grid models to provide prescriptions for the coupling between supernova (SN) feedback and the interstellar medium (ISM). Many of these models are computed in 1-D to allow for an efficient way to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Ian A. Bonnell

We use high-resolution cosmological simulations to compare the effect of bursty star formation histories on dwarf galaxy structure for two different subgrid supernovae (SNe) feedback models in dwarf galaxies with stellar masses from $5000…

Simulations of galaxy formation are mostly unable to resolve the energy-conserving phase of individual supernova events, having to resort to subgrid models to distribute the energy and momentum resulting from stellar feedback. However, the…

Galactic outflows are ubiquitously observed in star-forming disk galaxies and are critical for galaxy formation. Supernovae (SNe) play the key role in driving the outflows, but there is no consensus as to how much energy, mass and metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Miao Li , Greg L. Bryan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We describe a new method for adding a prescribed amount of kinetic energy to simulated gas modeled on a cartesian grid by directly altering grid cells' mass and velocity in a distributed fashion. The method is explored in the context of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Christine M. Simpson , Greg L. Bryan , Cameron Hummels , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

It is thought that type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs). Two main evolutionary channels are proposed for the WD to reach the critical density required for a thermonuclear explosion: the single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. S. W. Claeys , O. R. Pols , R. G. Izzard , J. Vink , F. W. M. Verbunt

The results of a 3-dimensional SNSPH simulation of the core collapse of a 23 solar mass star are presented. This simulation did not launch an explosion until over 600ms after collapse, allowing an ideal opportunity to study the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 C. L. Fryer , P. A. Young

Galactic outflows influence the evolution of galaxies not only by expelling gas from their disks but also by injecting energy into the circumgalactic medium (CGM). This alters or even prevents the inflow of fresh gas onto the disk and thus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

Many core-collapse supernova progenitors show indications of enhanced pre-supernova (SN) mass loss and outbursts, some of which could be powered by wave energy transport within the progenitor star. Depending on the star's structure,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-01 Samantha Wu , Jim Fuller

Supernovae (SNe) are generally classified into Type I and Type II. Most SNe (~ 80%), including all the subtypes of Type II, and Type Ib/c, arise from the core-collapse of massive stars. During their lifetime, mass-loss from these stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Vikram Dwarkadas

Knowledge of the supernova (SN) delay time distribution (DTD) - the SN rate versus time that would follow a hypothetical brief burst of star formation - can shed light on SN progenitors and physics. We compile recent measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dan Maoz , Keren Sharon , Avishay Gal-Yam

Observations indicate that the star formation rate (SFR) of nuclear rings varies considerably with time and is sometimes asymmetric rather than being uniform across a ring. To understand what controls temporal and spatial distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Sanghyuk Moon , Woong-Tae Kim , Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

The implementation of star formation and stellar feedback in cosmological simulations plays a critical role in shaping galaxy properties. In the first paper of the series, we presented a new method to model star formation as a collection of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Hui Li , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We consider the effects of different star formation criteria on galactic scales, in high-resolution simulations with explicitly resolved GMCs and stellar feedback. We compare: (1) a self-gravity criterion (based on the local virial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Desika Narayanan , Norman Murray

We present a phenomenological model of feedback in early-type galaxies that tracks the evolution of the interstellar medium gas mass, metallicity, and temperature. Modeling the star formation rate as a Schmidt law with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ignacio Ferreras , Evan Scannapieco , Joseph Silk

We use simulations with realistic models for stellar feedback to study galaxy mergers. These high resolution (1 pc) simulations follow formation and destruction of individual GMCs and star clusters. The final starburst is dominated by in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist , Desika Narayanan , Christopher C. Hayward , Norman Murray

Supernovae (SNe) powered by interaction with circumstellar material provide evidence for intense stellar mass loss during the final years leading up to core collapse. We have argued that during and after core neon burning, internal gravity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Joshua H. Shiode , Eliot Quataert

We investigate the star formation-feedback cycle in cosmological galaxy formation simulations, focusing on progenitors of Milky Way (MW)-sized galaxies. We find that in order to reproduce key properties of the MW progenitors, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Oscar Agertz , Andrey V. Kravtsov
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