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We present a sub-grid model for star formation in galaxy simulations, incorporating molecular hydrogen ($\mathrm{H}_2$) production via dust grain condensation and its destruction through star formation and photodissociation. Implemented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 E. Lozano , C. Scannapieco , S. E. Nuza , Y. Ascasibar , V. Springel

We study the Intra-Halo Stellar Component (IHSC) of Milky Way-mass systems up to galaxy clusters in the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We identify the IHSC using an improved phase-space galaxy finder algorithm which…

We have updated our radially-resolved SAMs of galaxy formation, which track both the atomic and molecular gas phases of the ISM. The models are adapted from those of Guo et al. using similar methodology as in Fu et al. and are run on halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-29 Jian Fu , Guinevere Kauffmann , Meiling Huang , Robert M. Yates , Sean Moran , Timothy M. Heckman , Romeel Davé , Qi Guo , Bruno M. B. Henriques

We use high-resolution maps of the molecular interstellar medium (ISM) in the centres of eighty-six nearby galaxies from the millimetre-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) and Physics at High Angular Resolution in…

Modern observations of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies detect a variety of atomic and molecular species. The goal is to connect these observations to the astrochemical properties of the ISM. 3D hydro-chemical simulations attempt…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Thomas G. Bisbas , Andreas Schruba , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

This is the first in a series of three papers describing a project with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure abundances of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) in a sample of 9 nearby star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Bethan L. James , Alessandra Aloisi , Timothy M. Heckman , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Michael A. Wolfe

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a fundamental component of the Milky Way. Studying its chemical composition and the level of its chemical diversity gives us insight into the evolution of the Milky Way and the role of gas in the Galactic…

We use the cosmological semi-analytic model (SAM) for galaxy formation presented in Paper I to study the metallicities and abundance ratios of the intracluster medium (ICM) within the hierarchical structure formation paradigm. By requiring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-09 Matías Arrigoni , Scott C. Trager , Rachel S. Somerville

We present a simulation of the cosmic evolution of the atomic and molecular phases of the cold hydrogen gas in about 3e7 galaxies, obtained by post-processing the virtual galaxy catalog produced by (De Lucia et al. 2007) on the Millennium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. Obreschkow , D. Croton , G. De Lucia , S. Khochfar , S. Rawlings

Understanding the molecular gas content in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for studying star formation and galaxy evolution. The CO-to-H$_2$ ($X_{\rm CO}$) and the [CI]-to-H$_2$ ($X_{\rm CI}$) conversion factors are widely used to…

The [CII] 157.74 $\mu$m fine structure transition is one of the brightest and most well-studied emission lines in the far-infrared (FIR), produced in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. We study its properties in sub-pc resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-05 Alon Gurman , Chia-Yu Hu , Amiel Sternberg , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Galaxies in the early Universe were more compact and contained more molecular gas than today. In this paper, we revisit the relation between these empirical findings, and we quantitatively predict the cosmic evolution of the surface…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 Danail Obreschkow , Steve Rawlings

We derive radial and vertical distributions of HI and H2 gas densities in our Galaxy by using the terminal velocity method. We calculate the molecular fraction (f_mol) defined as the ratio of the molecular hydrogen to total hydrogen gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Imamura , Y. Sofue

The characterisation of the atomic and molecular hydrogen content of high-redshift galaxies is a major observational challenge that will be addressed over the coming years with a new generation of radio telescopes. We investigate this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 Alan R. Duffy , Scott T. Kay , Richard A. Battye , C. M. Booth , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Joop Schaye

Observations in the Galaxy and nearby spirals have established that the HI-to-H$_2$ transition at solar metallicity occurs at gas weight of $P_{\rm DE}/k_B\approx 10^4 \ \rm K \ cm ^{-3}$, similar to solar neighbourhood conditions. Even so,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-18 Alon Gurman , Chia-Yu Hu , Michael Y. Grudic , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Amiel Sternberg

We have recently developed a post-processing framework to estimate the abundance of atomic and molecular hydrogen (HI and H2, respectively) in galaxies in large-volume cosmological simulations. Here we compare the HI and H2 content of…

We examine the pressure of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM) of Milky-Way sized disk galaxies using fully cosmological SPH+N-body, high resolution simulations. These simulations include explicit treatment of metal-line cooling in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ferah Munshi , Charlotte Christensen , Thomas R. Quinn , Fabio Governato , James Wadsley , Sarah Loebman , Sijing Shen

We present a series of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynamic simulations of flat rotation curve galactic gas disks with a detailed treatment of the interstellar medium (ISM) physics of the atomic to molecular phase transition under…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Qi Li , Jonathan C. Tan , Duncan Christie , Thomas G. Bisbas , Benjamin Wu

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

We study the relation between the metallicities of ionised and atomic gas in star-forming galaxies at z=0-3 using the EAGLE cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations. This is done by constructing a dense grid of sightlines through the…