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The dynamics of the wind-wind collision in massive stellar binaries is investigated using three-dimensional hydrodynamical models which incorporate gravity, the driving of the winds, the orbital motion of the stars, and radiative cooling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Pittard

Outflows from starburst galaxies can be driven by thermal pressure, radiation and cosmic rays. We present an analytic phenomenological model that accounts for these contributions simultaneously to investigate their effects on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 B. P. Brian Yu , Ellis R. Owen , Kinwah Wu , Ignacio Ferreras

Multiwavelength observations, from radio to X-rays, have revealed the presence of multiphase high-velocity gas near the center of the Milky Way likely associated with powerful galactic outflows. This region offers a unique laboratory to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Andrea Afruni , Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Lucia Armillotta , Callum A. Lynn , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths

Radiative turbulent mixing layers are expected to form pervasively at the phase boundaries in multiphase astrophysical systems. This inherently small scale structure is dynamically crucial because it directly regulates the mass, momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Xihui Zhao , Xue-Ning Bai

Wide-angle outflows, or winds, are associated with a broad range of astrophysical systems, including protostars, massive stars, X-ray binaries, tidal disruption events (TDEs), luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs), and starburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Benjamin Amend , Christopher Lagomarsino , Eric R. Coughlin , Jonathan Zrake

The diffuse medium in and around galaxies can exist in a multi-phase state: small, cold gas clouds contributing significantly to the total mass embedded in pressure equilibrium with a hotter, more diffuse volume-filling component. Modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Rainer Weinberger , Lars Hernquist

We present two dimensional hydrodynamic calculations of free expanding supergalactic winds, taking into consideration strong radiative cooling. Our main premise is that supergalactic winds are powered by collections of superstar clusters.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Tenorio-Tagle , S. Silich , C. Munoz-Tunon

Radiative cooling can drive dynamics in multi-phase gas. A dramatic example is hydrodynamic `shattering', the violent, pressure-driven fragmentation of a cooling cloud which falls drastically out of pressure balance with its surroundings.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Chaoran Wang , S. Peng Oh , Yan-Fei Jiang , Ish Kaul

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

A common situation in galactic and intergalactic gas involves cold dense gas in motion relative to hot diffuse gas. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability creates a turbulent mixing layer and populates the intermediate-temperature phase, which often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Drummond B. Fielding , Eve C. Ostriker , Greg L. Bryan , Adam S. Jermyn

(abridged) Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at close to the Eddington rate can influence the host galaxy via powerful winds. Theoretical models of such winds can explain observational correlations between SMBHs and their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 K. Zubovas , M. Tartėnas , M. A. Bourne

Confined granular fluids, placed in a shallow box that is vibrated vertically, can achieve homogeneous stationary states thanks to energy injection mechanisms that take place throughout the system. These states can be stable even at high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Ricardo Brito , Dino Risso , Rodrigo Soto

Radiative mixing layers arise wherever multiphase gas, shear, and radiative cooling are present. Simulations show that in steady state, thermal advection from the hot phase balances radiative cooling. However, many features are puzzling.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-12 Brent Tan , S. Peng Oh , Max Gronke

Astrophysical gases are commonly multiphase and highly turbulent. In this work, we investigate the survival and growth of cold gas in such a turbulent, multi-phase medium using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. Similar to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh , Suoqing Ji , Colin Norman

Observational evidence shows that low-redshift galaxies are surrounded by extended haloes of multiphase gas, the so-called 'circumgalactic medium' (CGM). To study the survival of relatively cool gas (T < 10^5 K) in the CGM, we performed a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 L. Armillotta , F. Fraternali , J. K. Werk , J. X. Prochaska , F. Marinacci

Recent observations suggest that dense gas clouds can survive even in hot galactic winds. Here we show that the inclusion of turbulent densities with different statistical properties has significant effects on the evolution of wind-swept…

Momentum deposition by radiation pressure from young, massive stars may help to destroy molecular clouds and unbind stellar clusters by driving large-scale outflows. We extend our previous numerical radiation hydrodynamic study of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Sudhir Raskutti , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

Stellar-driven galactic winds are multiphase outflows of energy and matter connecting the interstellar and circumgalactic media (CGM) with the intergalactic medium. Galactic winds contain a hot and diffuse phase detected in X-rays, and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 D. Villarruel , W. E. Banda-Barragán , B. Casavecchia

We extend previous studies of the physics of interstellar cloud collisions by beginning investigation of the role of magnetic fields through 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations. We study head-on collisions between equal mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Francesco Miniati , Dongsu Ryu , Andrea Ferrara , T. W. Jones

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetized gas clouds accelerated by hot winds. We initialize gas clouds with tangled internal magnetic fields and show that this field suppresses the disruption of the cloud:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael McCourt , Ryan M. O'Leary , Ann-Marie Madigan , Eliot Quataert