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The central regions of cool-core galaxy clusters harbour multiphase gas, with gas temperatures ranging from $10$ $\mathrm{K}$--$10^7$$\mathrm{K}$. Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) jets prevents the gas from undergoing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-03 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Mrinal Jetti , Prateek Sharma , Christoph Federrath

Jets are observed to stir up multi-phase turbulence in the inter-stellar medium as well as far beyond the host galaxy. Here we present detailed simulations of this process. We evolve the hydrodynamics equations with optically thin cooling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-10 Martin G. H. Krause

Thermal instability (TI) plays a crucial role in the formation of multiphase structures and their dynamics in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) and is a leading theory for cold cloud creation in various astrophysical environments. In this paper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-24 R. Michael Jennings , Yuan Li

The hot gas permeating galaxy clusters-the intracluster medium (ICM)-is a key tracer of their assembly history and internal dynamics. Understanding the motion of this gas provides critical insight into processes such as mergers, turbulence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 E. Gatuzz , J. Sanders , A. Liu , A. Fabian , C. Pinto , D. Eckert , S. Walker

We constrain the rotation and turbulent support of the intracluster medium (ICM) in Abell 2029 (A2029), using dynamical equilibrium models and a combination of state-of-the-art X-ray datasets. We reduce and conduct the spectral analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 T. Bartalesi , A. Simionescu , S. Ettori , C. Nipoti , V. Ghirardini , A. Sarkar , M. Sun

Significant theoretical and observational efforts are underway to investigate the properties of turbulence in the hot plasma that pervades galaxy clusters. Spectroscopy has been used to study the projected line-of-sight velocities in both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 M. Fournier , P. Grete , M. Brüggen , B. W. O'Shea , D. Prasad , B. D. Wibking , F. W. Glines , R. Mohapatra

I review recent results derived from numerical simulations of the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM), in particular concerning the nature and formation of turbulent clouds, methods for comparing the structure in simulations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni

Thermal instability in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) can be responsible for the existence of cold clouds (e.g., high-velocity clouds) embedded in a hot diffuse medium (e.g., X-ray emitting gas). While many previous studies have analyzed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Izumi Seno , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Jiro Shimoda

A recent survey of the fine-structure excitation of neutral carbon reveals that the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane exhibits a thermal pressure, nT/k, that ranges from about 10^3 to 10^4 cm{-3}K from one location to the next, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Edward B. Jenkins

Galactic outflows produced by stellar feedback are known to be multiphase in nature. Both observations and simulations indicate that the material within several kpc of galactic disk mid-planes consists of warm clouds embedded within a hot…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Aditi Vijayan , Chang-Goo Kim , Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Miao Li

The intra-cluster medium is prone to turbulent motion that will contribute to the non-thermal heating of the gas, complicating the use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes. Indirect approaches can estimate the intensity and structure…

The thermal instability with a piecewise power law cooling function is investigated using one- and three-dimensional simulations with periodic and shearing-periodic boundary conditions in the presence of constant thermal diffusion and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Axel Brandenburg , Maarit J. Korpi , Antony J. Mee

We examine the heating of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) of cooling flow clusters of galaxies by jet-inflated bubbles and conclude that mixing of hot bubble gas with the ICM is more important than turbulent heating and shock heating. We use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-30 Shlomi Hillel , Noam Soker

During structure formation, energetic events and random motions of the hot gas residing inside galaxy clusters (the intracluster medium, ICM) generate turbulent motions. Radio diffuse emission probes the presence of magnetic fields and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-12 M. S. Nakwacki , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal , R. Santos de Lima

Gas in the central regions of cool-core clusters and other massive halos has a short cooling time ($\lesssim1~\mathrm{Gyr}$). Theoretical models predict that this gas is susceptible to multiphase condensation, in which cold gas is expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-30 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Prateek Sharma , Christoph Federrath , Eliot Quataert

Context. Amongst many plasma processes potentially relevant to the dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM), turbulence driven at observable scales by internal magnetised buoyancy instabilities like the magneto-thermal instability (MTI)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-30 Jean M. Kempf , Francois Rincon , Nicolas Clerc

Recent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium driven by energy input from supernovae and stellar winds indicate that HI clouds can be formed by compression in shock waves and colliding turbulent streams without any help from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anvar Shukurov

We present a numerical and analytical study of the thermal fragmentation of a turbulent flow of interstellar hydrogen. We first present the different dynamical processes and the large range of spatial (and temporal) scales that need to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Audit , P. Hennebelle

Heat input roughly balances radiative cooling in the gaseous cores of galaxy clusters even when the central cooling time is short, implying that cooling triggers a feedback loop that maintains thermal balance. Furthermore, cores with short…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gregory Meece , Brian O'Shea , Mark Voit

Context: The interstellar medium (ISM) on all scales is full of structures that can be used as tracers of processes that feed turbulence. Aims: We used HI survey data to derive global properties of the angular power distribution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-02 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud
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