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Galactic superbubbles are triggered by stellar feedback in the discs of star-forming galaxies. They are important in launching galactic winds, which play a key role in regulating the mass and energy exchange in galaxies. Observations can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Osmer Suárez-López , Andrés S. Villares , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

We present a novel analytic framework to model the steady-state structure of multiphase galactic winds comprised of a hot, volume-filling component and a cold, clumpy component. We first derive general expressions for the structure of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 Drummond B. Fielding , Greg L. Bryan

Multiphase outflows, revealed by multi-wavelength observations, are crucial in redistributing gas and metals within and around galaxies. These outflows are often modelled theoretically using wind tunnel simulations of a cold ($\sim 10^4$ K)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma , Max Gronke

Outflows are a key part of the galactic gas cycle and crucial in shaping the star formation activity in their host galaxy. Yet, in simulations of galaxy evolution, modeling these outflows in their multi-phase nature and over the relevant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-26 Francesco Bollati , Rainer Weinberger

Simulations from the scales of isolated galaxies to clouds have been instrumental in informing us about molecular cloud formation and evolution. Simulations are able to investigate the roles of gravity, feedback, turbulence, heating and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Clare Dobbs

Magnetic fields are dynamically important in the diffuse interstellar medium. Understanding how gravitationally bound, star-forming clouds form requires modeling of the fields in a self-consistent, supernova-driven, turbulent, magnetized,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen

Supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds is a dominant agent that strongly affects the clouds' evolution and star formation activity. Turbulence may be initiated and maintained by a number of processes, acting at a wide range of physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 C. M. Brunt , M. H. Heyer , M. -M. Mac Low

Galactic winds from star-forming galaxies are crucial to the process of galaxy formation and evolution, regulating star formation, shaping the stellar mass function and the mass-metallicity relation, and enriching the intergalactic medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-05 Dong Zhang

Galactic and intergalactic flows often exhibit relative motion between the cold dense gas and the hot diffuse medium. Such multiphase flows -- involving gas at different temperatures, densities, and ionization states -- for instance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-07 Ritali Ghosh , Max Gronke , Prateek Sharma , Alankar Dutta

The nature and origin of turbulence and magnetic fields in the intergalactic space are important problems that are yet to be understood. We propose a scenario in which turbulent flow motions are induced via the cascade of the vorticity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Jungyeon Cho , Santabrata Das

Galactic winds from star-forming galaxies play at key role in the evolution of galaxies and the inter-galactic medium. They transport metals out of galaxies, chemically-enriching the inter-galactic medium and modifying the chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-05 Timothy M. Heckman , Todd A. Thompson

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 present a set of numerical experiments designed to systematically investigate how turbulence and magnetic fields influence the morphology, energetics, and dynamics of filaments produced in wind-cloud interactions. We cover 3D…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Christoph Federrath , Roland Crocker , Geoffrey Bicknell

We examine the idea that diffuse and giant molecular clouds and their substructure form as density fluctuations induced by large scale interstellar turbulence. We do this by investigating the topology of various fields in realistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Javier Ballesteros-Paredes , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , John Scalo

The molecular component of the Galaxy is comprised of turbulent, magnetized clouds, many of which are self-gravitating and form stars. To understand how these clouds' evolution may depend on their level of turbulence, mean magnetization,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eve C. Ostriker , Charles F. Gammie , James M. Stone

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

How does turbulence contribute to the formation and structure of the dense interstellar medium (ISM)? Molecular clouds are dense, high-pressure objects. It is usually argued that gravitational confinement causes the high pressures, and that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We discuss the role of turbulence in cloud and star formation, as observed in numerical simulations of the interstellar medium. Turbulent compression at the interfaces of colliding gas streams is responsible for the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , T. Passot , A. Pouquet

Galactic outflows have a multiphase nature making them challenging to model analytically. Many previous studies have tried to produce models that come closer to reality. In this work, we continue these efforts and describe the interaction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-17 C. Nikolis , M. Gronke

Using a set of high resolution hydrodynamical simulations run with the Cholla code, we investigate how mass and momentum couple to the multiphase components of galactic winds. The simulations model the interaction between a hot wind driven…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Evan E. Schneider , Brant E. Robertson
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