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We have studied the IGM reionization process in its full cosmological context including structure evolution and a realistic galaxy population. We have used a combination of high-resolution N-body simulations (to describe the dark matter and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Ciardi , F. Stoehr , S. D. M. White

We have developed a new scheme to treat a multiphase interstellar medium in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation. This scheme can represent a co-spatial mixture of cold and hot ISM components, and is formulated…

We investigate how the removal of interstellar material by stellar feedback limits the efficiency of star formation in molecular clouds and how this determines the shape of the mass function of young star clusters. In particular, we derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Michael Fall , Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher D. Matzner

We present numerical simulations of the passage of clumpy gas through a galactic spiral shock, the subsequent formation of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and the triggering of star formation. The spiral shock forms dense clouds while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ian A. Bonnell

We analyse synthetic maps of the [CII] 158 $\mu$m line and FIR continuum of simulated molecular clouds (MCs) within the SILCC-Zoom project to study the origin of the [CII] deficit, i.e., the drop in the [CII]/FIR intensity ratio. All…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Stefano Ebagezio , Daniel Seifried , Stefanie Walch , Thomas G. Bisbas

At high redshifts, star formation in galaxies is more often concentrated in clumps than in spiral arms. Although clumps are actively studied, it is rarely done considering spiral arms as objects for study as well, and the connection between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-18 Ilia V. Chugunov , Alexander A. Marchuk

The effects of the UV background radiation on the formation of sub-galactic clouds are studied by means of one-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. The radiative transfer of the ionizing photons due to the absorption by HI, HeI and HeII,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsu Kitayama , Satoru Ikeuchi

We numerically investigate the effect of feedback from the ionizing radiation heating from massive stars on the evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their star formation efficiency (SFE). We find that the star-forming regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Pedro Colin , Gilberto C. Gomez , Alan Watson

We present three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the impact of stellar winds, photoelectric heating, photodissociating and photoionising radiation, and supernovae on the chemical composition and star formation in a…

Using 3D hydrodynamic calculations we simulate formation of molecular clouds in the Galaxy. The simulations take into account molecular hydrogen chemical kinetics, cooling and heating processes. Comprehensive gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , A. M. Sobolev , A. V. Khoperskov

We quantify the impact of galaxy formation on dark matter halo shapes using cosmological simulations at redshift $z=0$. The haloes are drawn from the IllustrisTNG project, a suite of magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of galaxies. We focus on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Kun Ting Eddie Chua , Mark Vogelsberger , Annalisa Pillepich , Lars Hernquist

We estimate a characteristic timescale for star formation in the spiral arms of disk galaxies, going from atomic hydrogen (HI) to dust-enshrouded massive stars. Drawing on high-resolution HI data from The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey and…

We numerically simulate some of the most critical physical processes in galaxy formation: The supernova feedback, in conjunction with gasdynamics and gravity, plays a crucial role in determining how galaxies arise within the context of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. Yepes , R. Kates , A. Khokhlov , A. Klypin

We estimate the maximum contribution to reionization from the first generation of massive stars, with zero metallicity, under the assumption that one of these stars forms with a fixed mass in every collapsed halo in which metal-free gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose M. Rozas , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Eduard Salvador-Sole

Ionizing UV radiation and supernova flows amidst clustered minihalos at high redshift regulated the rise of the first stellar populations in the universe. Previous studies have addressed the effects of very massive primordial stars on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Daniel J. Whalen , Robert M. Hueckstaedt , Thomas McConkie

First, the formation of first objects driven by dark matter is revisited by high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations. It is revealed that dark matter haloes of ~10^4M_sun can produce first luminous objects with the aid of dark matter cusps.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-30 Masayuki Umemura , Hajime Susa , Kenji Hasegawa , Tamon Suwa , Benoit Semelin

We study the effect of quasar feedback on distributions of baryons and properties of intracluster medium in galaxy groups using high-resolution numerical simulations. We use the entropy-conserving Gadget code that includes gas cooling and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Suman Bhattacharya , Tiziana Di Matteo , Arthur Kosowsky

We have conducted a study of optical and HI properties of spiral galaxies (size, luminosity, H-alpha flux distribution, circular velocity, HI gas mass) to explore the role of gas stripping as a driver of morphological evolution in clusters.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicole P. Vogt , Martha P. Haynes , Riccardo Giovanelli , Terry Herter

We compare the central mass distribution of galaxies simulated with three different models of the interstellar medium (ISM) with increasing complexity: primordial (H+He) cooling down to 10^4K, additional cooling via metal lines and to lower…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Charlotte Christensen , Fabio Governato , Thomas Quinn , Alyson M. Brooks , David B. Fisher , Sijing Shen , Jacqueline McCleary , James Wadsley

Despite recent success in forming realistic present-day galaxies, simulations still form the bulk of their stars earlier than observations indicate. We investigate the process of stellar mass assembly in low-mass field galaxies, a dwarf and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , Anatoly Klypin , Pedro Colin , Daniel Ceverino , Kenza Arraki , Joel Primack