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The cold and hot interstellar medium (ISM) in star forming galaxies resembles the reservoir for star formation and associated heating by stellar winds and explosions during stellar evolution, respectively. We utilize data from deep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-06 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang , Tian-Wen Cao

We present magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the star-forming multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) in stratified galactic patches with gas surface densities $\Sigma_\mathrm{gas} =$ 10, 30, 50, and 100 $\mathrm{M_\odot\,pc^{-2}}$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Tim-Eric Rathjen , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Philipp Girichidis , Richard Wünsch

Observations give evidences of the presence of metals in the intergalactic medium (IGM). The stars responsible for transforming hydrogen and helium into more complex atoms do not form outside the galaxies in the standard scenario of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yohan Dubois , Romain Teyssier

Feedback is indispensable in galaxy formation. However, lacking resolutions, cosmological simulations often use ad hoc feedback parameters. Conversely, small-box simulations, while better resolving the feedback, cannot capture gas evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-12 Miao Li , Stephanie Tonnesen

We study the effects of time-dependent mass injection and heating on the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) in elliptical galaxies. As the large and luminous ellipticals have supermassive black holes at their cores, which were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Gaibler , Max Camenzind , Martin Krause

The development of our understanding of the gaseous component of the interstellar medium is reviewed. During the 20th century our picture of diffuse material in space has grown from a simple model of isolated clouds in thermal equilibrium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Priscilla C. Frisch

A cool phase of the interstellar medium has been observed in many giant elliptical galaxies, but its origin remains unclear. We propose that uneven heating from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), together with radiative cooling, can lead to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Miao Li , Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan , Eve C. Ostriker , Eliot Quataert

Molecular outflows contributing to the matter cycle of star forming galaxies are now observed in small and large systems at low and high redshift. Their physical origin is still unclear. In most theoretical studies only warm ionised/neutral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-28 Philipp Girichidis , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Thomas Berlok

Dwarf galaxies provide a special environment due to their low mass, small size and generally low metal content. These attributes make them perfect laboratories for the interaction of massive stars with the interstellar medium on small and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik J. Bomans

Thick layers of warm, low density ionized hydrogen (i.e., the warm ionized medium or WIM) in spiral galaxies provide direct evidence for an interaction between the disk and halo. The wide-spread ionization implies that a significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-26 R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner , G. J. Madsen , K. Wood , A. S. Hill

We explore the evolution of cold streams from the cosmic web that feed galaxies through their shock-heated circumgalactic medium (CGM) at cosmic noon, $z\simeq 1-5$. In addition to the hydrodynamical instabilities and radiative cooling that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-16 Han Aung , Nir Mandelker , Avishai Dekel , Daisuke Nagai , Vadim Semenov , Frank C. van den Bosch

In external galaxies, some galaxies have higher activities of star formation and central supermassive black holes. The interstellar medium in those galaxies can be heated by different mechanisms such as UV-heating, X-ray heating, cosmic-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Nanase Harada

We study how outflows of gas launched from a central galaxy undergoing repeated starbursts propagate through the circumgalactic medium (CGM), using the simulation code RAMSES. We assume that the outflow from the disk can be modelled as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Teresita Suarez , Andrew Pontzen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt

The existence of substellar cold H2 globules in planetary nebulae and the mere existence of comets suggest that the physics of cold interstellar gas might be much richer than usually envisioned. We study the case of a cold gaseous medium in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 Andreas Füglistaler , Daniel Pfenniger

Not the way one might have thought. In hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation, some gas follows the traditionally envisioned route, shock heating to the halo virial temperature before cooling to the much lower temperature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Neal Katz , Dusan Keres , Romeel Dave , David H. Weinberg

Evidence for the accretion of cold gas in galaxies has been rapidly accumulating in the past years. HI observations of galaxies and their environment have brought to light new facts and phenomena which are evidence of ongoing or recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Sancisi , F. Fraternali , T. Oosterloo , J. M. van der Hulst

We examine observational characteristics of multi-phase turbulent flows in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) using a synthetic radiation field of atomic and molecular lines. We consider the multi-phase ISM which is formed by thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Yamada , H. Koyama , K. Omukai , S. Inutsuka

Neutral-atomic and molecular outflows are a common occurrence in galaxies, near and far. They operate over the full extent of their galaxy hosts, from the innermost regions of galactic nuclei to the outermost reaches of galaxy halos. They…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 Sylvain Veilleux , Roberto Maiolino , Alberto D. Bolatto , Susanne Aalto

The equilibrium resulting in a recombining plasma with arbitrary metallicity Z, heated by a mean radiation field E as well as by sound waves dissipation due to thermal conduction, dynamic and bulk viscosity is analyzed. Generally, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-30 Miguel H. Ibañez Sanchez , Sandra M. Conde C , Pedro L. Contreras E

$\textit{Herschel}$ observations of far infrared N$^+$ emission lines have demonstrated that dense plasma, with $n_e\sim30\,{\rm cm^{-3}}$, is ubiquitous in the inner Galactic plane. By combining the information from $\textit{Herschel}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-03 Marisa Geyer , Mark Walker