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Galactic winds shape the stellar, gas, and metal content of galaxies. To quantify their impact, we must understand their physics. We review potential wind-driving mechanisms and observed wind properties, with a focus on the warm ionized and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Todd A. Thompson , Timothy M. Heckman

Supersonic winds from massive stars carry great amounts of kinetic power and modify the surrounding interstellar medium. Through this interaction a stellar bubble is formed. Theoretical studies and recent observations suggest that the winds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 L. Espinosa , M. V. del Valle

Galactic winds constitute a primary feedback process in the ecology and evolution of galaxies. They are ubiquitously observed and exhibit a rich phenomenology, whose origin is actively investigated both theoretically and observationally.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Sarah Recchia

Many stars across all classes possess strong enough magnetic fields to influence dynamical flow of material off the stellar surface. For the case of massive stars (O and B types), about 10\% of them harbour strong, globally ordered (mostly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Asif ud-Doula , Stan Owocki

Unpulsed, high-energy emission from pulsar binaries can be attributed to the interaction of a pulsar wind with that of a companion star. At the shock between the outflows, particles carried away from the pulsar magnetosphere are accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Iwona Mochol , John G. Kirk

In addition to gamma-ray binaries which contain a compact object, high-energy and very high-energy gamma rays have also been detected from colliding-wind binaries. The collision of the winds produces two strong shock fronts, one for each…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-21 Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves

Dense stellar winds may mass-load the jets of active galactic nuclei, although it is unclear what are the time and spatial scales in which the mixing takes place. We study the first steps of the interaction between jets and stellar winds,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Manel Perucho , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Maxim V. Barkov

The dynamics of the wind-wind collision in massive stellar binaries is investigated using three-dimensional hydrodynamical models which incorporate gravity, the driving of the winds, the orbital motion of the stars, and radiative cooling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Pittard

A rotating pulsar creates a surrounding pulsar wind nebula (PWN) by steadily releasing an energetic wind into the interior of the expanding shockwave of supernova remnant or interstellar medium. At the termination shock of a PWN, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yingchao Lu , Fan Guo , Patrick Kilian , Hui Li , Chengkun Huang , Edison Liang

This paper reports the results of the numerical study of the formation of aspherical Planetary Nebulae through the Generalised Interacting Winds Model, taking into account the effects caused by the evolving central star and fast wind. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Garrelt Mellema

In a companion paper, we develop a theory for the evolution of stellar wind driven bubbles in dense, turbulent clouds. This theory proposes that turbulent mixing at a fractal bubble-shell interface leads to highly efficient cooling, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Lachlan Lancaster , Eve C. Ostriker , Jeong-Gyu Kim , Chang-Goo Kim

In this review we confront the current theoretical understanding of particle acceleration at relativistic outflows with recent observational results on various source classes thought to involve such outflows, e.g. gamma-ray bursts, active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrei Bykov , Neil Gehrels , Henric Krawczynski , Martin Lemoine , Guy Pelletier , Martin Pohl

Galactic winds in dwarf galaxies are driven by the energy released by supernova explosions and stellar winds following an intense episode of star formation, which create an over-pressured cavity of hot gas. Although the luminosity of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-23 Simone Recchi , Gerhard Hensler , Dalila Anelli

Particle acceleration is expected to take place at shocks that form during the process of large scale structure formation. Electrons accelerated at such shocks can upscatter a small fraction of the photons in the cosmic microwave background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Gabici

The topic of this review paper is on the influence of solar wind turbulence on shock propagation and its consequence on the acceleration and transport of energetic particles at shocks. As the interplanetary shocks sweep through the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-12 Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone , Lulu Zhao

The discovery of the Fermi bubbles---a huge bilobular structure seen in GeV gamma-rays above and below the Galactic center---implies the presence of a large reservoir of high energy particles at $\sim 10 \, \text{kpc}$ from the disk. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Philipp Mertsch , Vahé Petrosian

Initial results are presented from 3D MHD modelling of stellar-wind bubbles around O stars moving supersonically through the ISM. We describe algorithm updates that enable high-resolution 3D MHD simulations at reasonable computational cost.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-06 Jonathan Mackey , Samuel Green , Maria Moutzouri

The origin of radio emission from plerions is considered. Recent observations suggest that radio emitting electrons are presently accelerated rather than having been injected at early stages of the plerion evolution. The observed flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. E. Lyubarsky

We perform hydrodynamical simulations of a young galactic disc embedded in a hot gaseous halo using parameters typical for Lyman break galaxies (LBGs). We take into account the (static) gravitational potentials due to a dark matter halo, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wolfgang von Glasow , Martin Krause , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Andreas Burkert

Galactic outflows from local starburst galaxies typically exhibit a layered geometry, with cool $10^4\,$K flow sheathing a hotter $10^7\,$K, cylindrically-collimated, X-ray emitting plasma. Here, we argue that winds driven by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-22 Dustin D. Nguyen , Todd A. Thompson