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Given the rarity of significant solar flares compared to smaller ones, training effective machine learning models for solar activity forecasting is challenging due to insufficient data. This study proposes using generative deep learning…

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Reconstructing images of the radio sky from incomplete Fourier information is a key challenge in radio astronomy. In this work, we present a method for radio interferometric image reconstruction using a data-driven prior for the radio sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Michel Morales , Emma Tolley , Remi Poitevineau

Properties of candidate stars, forming out of molecular clouds, depend on the ambient conditions of the parent cloud. We present a series of 2D and 3D simulations of fragmentation of molecular clouds in starburst regions as well as clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Hocuk , M. Spaans

We present 3D radiation-hydrodynamical (RHD) simulations of star cluster formation and evolution in massive, self-gravitating clouds, whose dust columns are optically thick to infrared (IR) photons. We use \texttt{VETTAM} -- a recently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 Shyam H. Menon , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz

The effect of a newly born star cluster inside a giant molecular cloud (GMC) is to produce a hot bubble and a thin, dense shell of interstellar gas and dust swept up by the H II expansion, strong stellar winds, and repeated supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lihong Yao , T. A. Bell , S. Viti , J. A. Yates , E. R. Seaquist

We analyse the far-infrared properties of $\sim$ 5,000 star-forming galaxies at $z<4.5$, drawn from the deepest, super-deblended catalogues in the GOODS-N and COSMOS fields. We develop a novel panchromatic SED fitting algorithm,…

An evolutionary model of star formation in ULIRGs was created using existing star formation and radiative transfer codes (STARBURST99, RADMC and RADICAL) as building blocks. The results of the simulations are compared to data from two IRAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. F. Loenen , W. A. Baan , M. Spaans

Observations of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter (SMM) polarized emission are used to study magnetic fields and dust grains in dense regions of the interstellar medium (ISM). These observations place constraints on models of molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 John E. Vaillancourt

We introduce a model for the explicit evolution of interstellar dust in a cosmological galaxy formation simulation. We post-process a simulation from the Cosmic Reionization on Computers project (CROC, Gnedin 2014), integrating an ordinary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Clarke J. Esmerian , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Radiation feedback from stellar clusters is expected to play a key role in setting the rate and efficiency of star formation in giant molecular clouds (GMCs). To investigate how radiation forces influence realistic turbulent systems, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Sudhir Raskutti , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

Interstellar medium widely exists in the universe at multi-scales. In this study, we introduce the {\it Multi-scale Decomposition Reconstruction} method, an equation-based model designed to derive width maps of interstellar medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-23 Mengke Zhao , Guang-Xing Li , Duo Xu , Keping Qiu

Following from our recent work, we present a detailed analysis of star-formation and interstellar medium (ISM) scaling relations, done on a representative sample of nearby galaxies. H$\alpha$ images are analysed in order to derive the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 Bogdan A. Pastrav

We simulate a self-gravitating, turbulent cloud of 1000 Msol with photoionization and radiation pressure feedback from a 34 Msol star. We use a detailed Monte Carlo radiative transfer scheme alongside the hydrodynamics to compute…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-23 Ahmad Ali , Tim J. Harries , Thomas A. Douglas

The fragmentation of star-forming interstellar clouds, and the resulting stellar initial mass function (IMF), is strongly affected by the temperature structure of the collapsing gas. Since radiation feedback from embedded stars can modify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Mark R. Krumholz , Andrew J. Cunningham , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

We examine the physical parameters that affect the accumulation of gas in molecular clouds to high column densities where the formation of stars takes place. In particular, we analyze the dense gas mass fraction (DGMF) in a set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Jouni Kainulainen , Christoph Federrath , Thomas Henning

The path to understanding star formation processes begins with the study of the formation of molecular clouds. The outskirts of these clouds are characterized by low column densities that allow the penetration of ultraviolet radiation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 L. Beitia-Antero , A. I. Gómez de Castro , J. C. Vallejo

Polarized emission from aligned dust is a crucial tool for studies of magnetism in the ISM and a troublesome contaminant for studies of CMB polarization. In each case, an understanding of the significance of the polarization signal requires…

The role of feedback from massive stars is believed to be a key element in the evolution of molecular clouds. We use high-resolution 3D SPH simulations to explore the dynamical effects of a single O7 star located at the centre of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Walch , A. P. Whitworth , T. Bisbas , R. Wunsch , D. Hubber

We apply gravity-based and density-based methods to identify clouds in numerical simulations of the star-forming, three-phase interstellar medium (ISM), and compare their properties and their global correlation with the star formation rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 S. Alwin Mao , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim

As a first step to a more complete understanding of the local physical processes which determine star formation rates (SFRs) in the interstellar medium (ISM), we have performed controlled numerical experiments consisting of hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Slyz , J. Devriendt , Greg Bryan , Joseph Silk