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Massive stars (mass beyond 8 solMass) release vast amounts of energy into the interstellar medium through their stellar winds, photoionising radiation and supernova explosions. These processes may compress nearby regions, triggering further…

We characterize the conditional distributions of the HI gas-to-stellar mass ratio, $R_{HI}\equiv M_{HI}/M_{\ast}$, given the stellar mass, $M_{\ast}$, of local galaxies from $M_{\ast}\sim 10^7$ to $10^{12}$ $M_{\odot}$ separated into…

While the CO(1-0) transition is often used to deduce the total molecular hydrogen in galaxies, it is challenging to detect in low metallicity galaxies, in spite of the star formation taking place. In contrast, the [CII] 158 micron line is…

Understanding the molecular gas content in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for studying star formation and galaxy evolution. The CO-to-H$_2$ ($X_{\rm CO}$) and the [CI]-to-H$_2$ ($X_{\rm CI}$) conversion factors are widely used to…

Physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at sub-galactic ($\sim$kpc) scales play an indispensable role in controlling the ability of gas to form stars. As part of the SMAUG (Simulating Multiscale Astrophysics to…

Recent observations suggest that the extended stellar halos of low-redshift massive galaxies are tightly connected to the assembly of their dark matter halos. In this paper, we use the Illustris, IllustrisTNG100, and IllustrisTNG300…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Shuo Xu , Song Huang , Alexie Leauthaud , Benedikt Diemer , Katya Leidig , Carlo Cannarozzo , Conghao Zhou

Characterizing the conversion factor between CO emission and column density of molecular hydrogen, X_CO, is crucial in studying the gaseous content of galaxies, its evolution, and relation to star formation. In most cases the conversion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Robert Feldmann , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We present new multi-wavelength scaling relations between the neutral hydrogen content (HI) and the stellar properties of nearby galaxies selected from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS). We use these new scaling relations to investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Helga Dénes , Virginia A. Kilborn , Bärbel S. Koribalski

We study the atomic (HI) and molecular hydrogen (H2) contents of early-type galaxies (ETGs) and their gas sources using the GALFORM model of galaxy formation. This model uses a self-consistent calculation of the star formation rate (SFR),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Claudia del P. Lagos , T. A. Davis , C. G. Lacey , M. A. Zwaan , C. M. Baugh , V. Gonzalez-Perez , N. D. Padilla

We investigate the chemical evolution of a forming molecular cloud behind an interstellar shock wave. We conduct three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the converging flow of atomic gas, including a simple chemical network…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-08 Yuto Komichi , Yuri Aikawa , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kenji Furuya

We report the first ensemble results from the FUSE survey of molecular hydrogen in lines of sight with A_V $\gtrsim$ 1 mag. We have developed techniques for fitting computed profiles to the low-J lines of H2, and thus determining column…

We measure and analyze the inflows and outflows of mass, energy, and metals through the interstellar medium (ISM) and circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG100 simulations. We identify the dominant feedback mechanism in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Yossi Oren , Viraj Pandya , Rachel S. Somerville , Shy Genel , Osase Omoruyi , Amiel Sternberg

The physical origin of the radial sizes of galaxies and how galaxy sizes are correlated with the properties of their host dark matter halos is an open question in galaxy formation. In observations, the large-scale clustering of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-07 Rachel S. Somerville , Austen Gabrielpillai , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Shy Genel

Galactic dynamical structures are fossil records of the assembly histories of galaxies. By analyzing the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation TNG50, we find that a dynamical structure that we call the "hot inner stellar halo," defined by…

We explore the nature of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) in the hydrodynamic cosmological simulation TNG100 of the IllustrisTNG project, selecting a sample of LSBGs ($r$-band effective surface brightness $\mu_r > 22.0$ mag…

Galaxy evolution depends on the environment in which galaxies are located. The various physical processes (ram-pressure stripping, tidal interactions, etc.) that can affect the gas content in galaxies have different efficiencies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-02 D. Zakharova , B. Vulcani , G. De Lucia , R. A. Finn , G. Rudnick , F. Combes , G. Castignani , F. Fontanot , P. Jablonka , L. Xie , M. Hirschmann

We explore the mass content of galaxies residing in galaxy clusters at z=0 in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation as well as the galaxies' mass build-up through cosmic time. We use a galaxy catalogue generated with the HBT+ algorithm, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Cristóbal Sifón , Jiaxin Han

We extend the results of previous analyses towards constraining the abundance and clustering of post-reionization ($z \sim 0-5$) neutral hydrogen (HI) systems using a halo model framework. We work with a comprehensive HI dataset including…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

We analyze the stellar abundances of massive galaxies ($\log M_\ast/M_\odot>10.5$) at $z=2$ in the IllustrisTNG simulation with the goal of guiding the interpretation of current and future observations, particularly from the James Webb…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-17 Jee-Ho Kim , Sirio Belli , Rainer Weinberger

We modelled recent observations of UV absorption of HD and \HH\ in the Milky Way and toward damped/sub-damped Lyman alpha systems at z=0.18 and z $>$ 1.7. N(HD)/N(\HH) ratios reflect the separate self-shieldings of HD and \HH\ and the…

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