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We conduct two-dimensional axisymmetric (referred to as 2.5D) hydrodynamical numerical simulations of bubble evolution in clusters of galaxies. We inflate bubbles using slow, massive jets with a wide opening angle, and follow their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Assaf Sternberg , Noam Soker

Mechanical feedback from massive stars, primarily from supernovae, can dominate ISM structuring and phase balance, thereby profoundly affecting galactic evolutionary processes. Our understanding of mechanical feedback is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. S. Oey

Feedback from massive stars is one of the least understood aspects of galaxy formation. We perform a suite of vertically stratified local interstellar medium (ISM) simulations in which supernova rates and vertical gas column densities are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 M. Ryan Joung , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Greg L. Bryan

Mass loss from massive stars ($\ga 8 \msun$) can result in the formation of circumstellar wind blown cavities surrounding the star, bordered by a thin, dense, cold shell. When the star explodes as a core-collapse supernova (SN), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vikram V. Dwarkadas

We study the evolution of isolated and merging interstellar bubbles of three stars (25, 32 and 60 M\odot) in a homogeneous background medium with a density of 10 mp /ccm via 3D-hydrodynamic simulations with standard ISM thermodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Martin Krause , Katharina Fierlinger , Roland Diehl , Andreas Burkert , Rasmus Voss , Udo Ziegler

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

Observations have suggested substantial departures from pressure equilibrium in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the plane of the Galaxy, even on scales under 50 pc. Nevertheless, multi-phase models of the ISM assume at least locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Dinshaw Balsara , Miguel A. Avillez , Jongsoo Kim

Galactic winds are a common phenomenon in starburst galaxies in the local universe as well as at higher redshifts. Their sources are superbubbles driven by sequential supernova explosions in star forming regions, which carve out large holes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-04 Verena Baumgartner , Dieter Breitschwerdt

We construct a simple, spherical blastwave model to estimate the pressure structure of the intergalactic medium surrounding hyper-starburst galaxies, and argue that the effects of interaction with star-forming galaxy winds may be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Barnaby Rowe , Joseph Silk

The galactic supershells are cavities in the interstellar medium. These shells can be explained by introducing the concept of superbubbles, the theoretical result of multiple supernova. The superbubbles can be analytically described if the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Lorenzo Zaninetti

Modelling the propagation of supernova (SN) bubbles, in terms of energy, momentum and spatial extent, is critical for simulations of galaxy evolution which do not capture these scales. To date, small scale models of SN feedback predict that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Loke Ohlin , Florent Renaud , Oscar Agertz

We present an analytic model for clustered supernovae (SNe) feedback in galaxy disks, incorporating the dynamical evolution of superbubbles formed from spatially overlapping SNe remnants. We propose two realistic outcomes for the evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Matthew E. Orr , Drummond B. Fielding , Christopher C. Hayward , Blakesley Burkhart

We present an investigation of clustered stellar feedback in the form of superbubbles identified within eleven galaxies from the FIRE-2 (Feedback in Realistic Environments) cosmological zoom-in simulation suite, at both cosmic noon (1 < z <…

Numerous spherical ``shells" have been observed in young star-forming environments that host low- and intermediate-mass stars. These observations suggest that these shells may be produced by isotropic stellar wind feedback from young…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Anna L. Rosen , Stella S. R. Offner , Michael M. Foley , Laura A. Lopez

We measure the liquid content, the bubble speeds, and the distribution of bubble sizes, in a vertical column of aqueous foam maintained in steady-state by continuous bubbling of gas into a surfactant solution. Nearly round bubbles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Feitosa , Olivia L. Halt , Randall D. Kamien , D. J. Durian

We discuss the nature of the velocity dispersion vs. size relation for molecular clouds. In particular, we add to previous observational results showing that the velocity dispersions in molecular clouds and cores are not purely functions of…

We study the evolution of multiple supernova (SN) explosions inside a pre-exiting cavity blown by winds from massive progenitor stars. Hydrodynamic simulations in one-dimensional spherical geometry, including radiative cooling and thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hyunjin Cho , Hyesung Kang

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

Numerical models of the wind-blown bubble of massive stars usually only account for the wind of a single star. However, since massive stars are usually formed in clusters, it would be more realistic to follow the evolution of a bubble…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Allard Jan van Marle , Zakaria Meliani , Alexandre Marcowith

Energetic winds and radiation from massive star clusters push the surrounding gas and blow superbubbles in the interstellar medium (ISM). Using 1-D hydrodynamic simulations, we study the role of radiation in the dynamics of superbubbles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Siddhartha Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , Yuri Shchekinov