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We present results of an attempt to include more detailed gas physics motivated from hydrodynamical simulations within semi-analytic models (SAM) of galaxy formation, focusing on the role that environmental effects play. The main difference…

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We propose a novel component to the understanding of the temperature structure of galaxy clusters which does not rely on any heating or cooling mechanism. The new ingredient is the use of non-extensive thermo-statistics which is based on…

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The gas dynamics in the Galactic disc is modeled by releasing an initially axisymmetric SPH component in a completely self-consistent and symmetry-free 3D N-body simulation of the Milky Way in which the stellar components display a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Fux

Observations of turbulent velocity dispersions in the HI component of galactic disks show a characteristic floor in galaxies with low star formation rates and within individual galaxies the dispersion profiles decline with radius. We carry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oscar Agertz , George Lake , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore , Lucio Mayer , Alessandro B. Romeo

We demonstrate a significant difference in the angular momentum transport properties of galactic disks between regions in which the interstellar medium is single phase or two phase. Our study is motivated by observations of HI in extended…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 C. P. McNally , J. Wadsley , H. M. P. Couchman

The propagation and evolution of planet-generated density waves in protoplanetary disks is considered. The evolution of waves, leading to the shock formation and wake dissipation, is followed in the weakly nonlinear regime. The local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roman Rafikov

We study and analyze the dynamic properties of both canonical and noncanonical warm inflationary models with dissipative effects. We consider different models of canonical warm inflation with different dissipative coefficients and prove…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-24 Xi-Bin Li , Yang-Yang Wang , He Wang , Jian-Yang Zhu

In the standard model of structure formation, galaxies form in the centre of dark matter haloes that develop as a result of inhomogeneities in the primordial mass distribution of the Universe. Afterwards, galaxies grow by means of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-27 F. G. Iza , S. E. Nuza , C. Scannapieco

We apply the hierarchical clustering model and non-linear perturbation theory to the cosmological density and temperature fields. This allows us to calculate the intergalactic gas pressure power spectrum, SZ anisotropy power spectrum,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pengjie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen

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

The measured rotation velocity profiles of mature spiral galaxies are successfully described with a gravitational model consisting of a thin axisymmetric disk of finte radius. The disk is assumed uniformly thin but with variable radial mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-06 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

We discuss the requirements of good statistics for quantifying non-Gaussianity in the Cosmic Microwave Background. The importance of rotational invariance and statistical independence is stressed, but we show that these are sometimes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Pedro G. Ferreira , Joao Magueijo , Joseph Silk

This article is a tutorial on deriving physical properties from the spectral energy distributions of circumstellar disks. It includes a new derivation of disk mass from millimeter-wave flux density using recent disk model parameters. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven V. W. Beckwith

We present a flexible, detailed model for the evolution of galactic discs in a cosmological context since $z\approx 4$, including a physically-motivated model for radial transport of gas and stars within galactic discs. This expansion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 John C. Forbes , Mark R. Krumholz , Joshua S. Speagle

In earlier papers in this series we determined the intrinsic stellar disc kinematics of fifteen intermediate to late type edge-on spiral galaxies using a dynamical modeling technique. From the photometry we find that intrinsically more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit , K. C. Freeman

Observation of coronal EUV spectral lines sensitive to different temperatures offers an opportunity to evaluate the thermal structure and flows in flaring atmospheres. This can be used to estimate the partitioning between the thermal and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Eduard Kontar , Philippa Browning

With 2D hydrodynamical simulations, we study the evolution of the hot gas flows in early-type galaxies, focussing on the effects of galaxy rotation on the thermal and dynamical status of the ISM. The galaxy is modelled as a two-component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-28 Andrea Negri , Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti

During their evolution massive stars can reach the phase of critical rotation when a further increase in rotational speed is no longer possible. Direct centrifugal ejection from a critically or near-critically rotating surface forms a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-17 Petr Kurfürst , Achim Feldmeier , Jiří Krtička

Over the course of the recent decades, $N$-body simulations have become a standard tool for quantifying the gravitational perturbations that ensue in planet-forming disks. Within the context of such simulations, massive non-central bodies…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Shirui Peng , Konstantin Batygin

We conduct a molecular dynamics simulation of an inelastic gas system utilizing an event-driven algorithm combined with a thermostat mechanism. Initially, the kinetic energy of the system experiences a decay before settling into a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Rameez Farooq Shah , Shikha Kumari , Syed Rashid Ahmad