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We study the interplay between turbulent heating, mixing, and radiative cooling in an idealized model of cool cluster cores. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are expected to drive turbulence and heat cluster cores. Cooling of the…

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We study steady, radial gas outflows from galaxies in an effort to understand the way tenuous and hot gas is transported to large distances away from galaxies. In particular, we obtain solutions for outflow problems, and study the outflow…

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We propose that inward, subsonic flows arise from the local dissipation of turbulent motions in molecular clouds. Such "turbulent cooling flows" may account for recent observations of spatially extended inward motions towards dense cores.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Myers , A. Lazarian

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is responsive to kinetic disruptions generated by nearby astrophysical events. In this work, we study the saturation and dissipation of turbulent hydrodynamics within the CGM through an extensive array of 252…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 Alex Lv , Lile Wang , Renyue Cen , Luis C. Ho

A major challenge in CGM studies is determining the three-dimensional (3D) properties from the observed projected observations. Here, we decompose the 3D gas density and spatial distribution of cool clouds by fitting a cool CGM model with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-04 Hang Yang , Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman , Li Ji

To better understand the nature of the multiphase material found in outflowing galaxies, we study the evolution of cold clouds embedded in flows of hot and fast material. Using a suite of adaptive-mesh refinement simulations that include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

We perform high-resolution (15-30 pc) adaptive mesh simulations to study the impact of momentum-driven AGN feedback in cool-core clusters, focusing in this paper on the formation of cold clumps. The feedback is jet-driven with an energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan

Early X-ray observations suggested that the intracluster medium cools and condenses at the centers of clusters, leading to a cooling flow of plasma in the cluster core. The increased incidence of emission-line nebulosity, excess blue light,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Megan Donahue , G. Mark Voit

We conduct simulations of $\sim$kpc-scale cool clouds in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), using initial conditions sampled from a highly resolved cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom-in of a Milky Way-like galaxy. We select ten distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson , Drummond Fielding , Marcus Brüggen

The radiative cooling of optically thin gaseous regions and the formation of a two-phase medium and of cold gas clouds with a clumpy substructure is investigated. In optically thin clouds, the growth rate of small isobaric density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Burkert , D. N. C. Lin

In many clusters of galaxies there is evidence for cooling flows which deposit large quantities of cool gas in the central regions. A fraction of this gas might accumulate as dense cool clouds. The aim of this communication is to discuss…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Grenacher , Ph. Jetzer , D. Puy

We use the GIBLE suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies with additional super-Lagrangian refinement in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) to quantify the origin and evolution of CGM cold gas clouds. The origin of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-25 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson , Drummond Fielding , Marcus Brüggen

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the diffuse gas surrounding a galaxy's halo, and it plays a vital role in the galactic baryon cycle. However, its mass distribution across the virial phase and the cooler, denser atomic phase, remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma

We perform global linear stability analysis and idealized numerical simulations in global thermal balance to understand the condensation of cold gas from hot/virial atmospheres (coronae), in particular the intracluster medium (ICM). We pay…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-15 Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Prateek Sharma

We present an analytic model for the cool, $T \approx 10^4$ K, circumgalactic medium (CGM), describing the gas distribution, thermal and ionization state. Our model assumes (total) pressure equilibrium with the ambient warm/hot CGM,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-03 Yakov Faerman , Jessica K. Werk

We provide an analytic framework for interpreting observations of multiphase circumgalactic gas that is heavily informed by recent numerical simulations of thermal instability and precipitation in cool-core galaxy clusters. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 G. M. Voit , G. Meece , Y. Li , B. W. O'Shea , G. L. Bryan , M. Donahue

We use hydrodynamic simulations with adaptive grid refinement to study the dependence of hot gas flows in X-ray luminous giant elliptical galaxies on the efficiency of heat supply to the gas. We consider a number of potential heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kritsuk , T. Plewa , E. Mueller

We study the possibility that a large fraction of the gas at temperatures of \~10^7 K in cooling flow clusters cools by heat conduction to lower temperatures, rather than by radiative cooling. We argue that this process, when incorporated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Noam Soker , Elizabeth L. Blanton , Craig L. Sarazin

In addition to the hot intracluster medium, massive galaxy clusters host complex, multi-phase gaseous halos. In this work, we quantify the abundance, spatial distribution, and origin of the cool T < 10^4.5 K gas within clusters. To do so,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Milan Staffehl , Dylan Nelson , Mohammadreza Ayromlou , Eric Rohr , Annalisa Pillepich

We study the influence of the choice of cooling function on the formation of molecular clouds in high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of converging flows. We directly compare the results obtained using the simple, parametrized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Milica Micic , Simon C. O. Glover , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen