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Magnetic fields are ubiquitously observed in the interstellar medium (ISM) of present-day star-forming galaxies with dynamically relevant energy densities. Using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the supernova (SN)…

We consider the dynamical evolution of an interstellar cloud that is initially in thermal equilibrium in the warm phase and is then subjected to a sudden increase in the pressure of its surroundings. We find that if the initial plasma beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Lim , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist

We present the results of simulations of forced turbulence in a slab where the mean kinetic helicity has a maximum near the mid-plane, generating gradients of magnetic helicity of both large and small-scale fields. We also study systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 A. Hubbard , A. Brandenburg

We have performed Smoothed Particle Magneto-Hydrodynamics (SPMHD) calculations of colliding clouds to investigate the formation of massive stellar clusters, adopting a timestep criterion to prevent large divergence errors. We find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 C. L. Dobbs , J. Wurster

High-velocity clouds (HVC), fast-moving ionized and neutral gas clouds found at high galactic latitudes, may play an important role in the evolution of the Milky Way. The extent of this role depends sensitively on their distances and total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Lehner , J. C. Howk , C. Thom , A. J. Fox , J. Tumlinson , T. M. Tripp , J. D. Meiring

Circumgalactic gas around massive galaxies generally has a volume-filling component -- an atmosphere -- with a temperature determined by the potential-well depth of the galaxy's halo. If the atmosphere is near hydrostatic equilibrium and is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 G. M. Voit , B. D. Wibking , D. Yaldiz

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, yet their formation, internal structure, and longevity have not been studied in detail. We report the results from a comprehensive numerical study that investigates the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Ross Parkin , Christoph Federrath , Roland Crocker , Geoffrey Bicknell

We have studied the fate of initial magnetic fields in the hot halo gas out of which the visible parts of galaxies form, using three-dimensional numerical MHD-experiments. The halo gas undergoes compression by several orders of magnitude in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A . Nordlund , O. E. Rognvaldsson

An analytical model predicting the growth rates, the absolute growth times and the saturation values of the magnetic field strength within galactic haloes is presented. The analytical results are compared to cosmological MHD simulations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander M. Beck , Harald Lesch , Klaus Dolag , Hanna Kotarba , Annette Geng , Federico A. Stasyszyn

We revisit the reliability of metallicity estimates of high velocity clouds with the help of hydrodynamical simulations. We quantify the effect of accretion and viewing angle on metallicity estimates derived from absorption lines. Model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 F. Heitsch , A. Marchal , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , J. M. Shull , A. J. Fox

We study effect of magnetic field on massive dense core formation in colliding unequal molecular clouds by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations with sub-parsec resolution (0.015 pc) that can resolve the molecular cores. Initial clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto

We examine the effects of self-gravity and magnetic fields on supersonic turbulence in isothermal molecular clouds with high resolution simulations and adaptive mesh refinement. These simulations use large root grids (512^3) to capture…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 David Collins , Alexei G. Kritsuk , Paolo Padoan , Hui Li , Hao Xu , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

We study the formation of giant dense cloud complexes and of stars within them by means of SPH numerical simulations of the mildly supersonic collision of gas streams (``inflows'') in the warm neutral medium (WNM). The resulting…

N-body simulations of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) have shown that, in this hierarchical structure formation model, dark matter halo properties, such as the density profile, the phase-space density profile, the distribution of axial ratio, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jie Wang , Simon D. M. White

Recent hydrodynamic cosmological simulations cover volumes up to Gpc^3 and resolve halos across a wide range of masses and environments, from massive galaxy clusters down to normal galaxies, while following a large variety of physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-11 Rhea-Silvia Remus , Klaus Dolag , Tadziu L. Hoffmann

We develop an unconditionally stable numerical method for solving the coupling between two fluids (frictional forces/heatings, ionization, and recombination), and investigate the dynamical condensation process of thermally unstable gas that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-20 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Magnetic clouds (MCs) are "magnetized plasma clouds" moving in the solar wind. MCs transport magnetic flux and helicity away from the Sun. These structures are not stationary but feature temporal evolution as they propagate in the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Dalakishvili , J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , S. Poedts

We employ the first fully three-dimensional simulation to study the role of magnetic fields and ion-neutral friction in regulating gravitationally-driven fragmentation of molecular clouds. The cores in an initially subcritical cloud develop…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Takahiro Kudoh , Shantanu Basu , Youichi Ogata , Takashi Yabe

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

We present the results of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (3D MHD) simulations of the plasma flow structure in the vicinity of a compact cluster of young massive stars. The cluster is considered at the evolutionary stage dominated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 D. V. Badmaev , A. M. Bykov , M. E. Kalyashova