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The isothermal dynamical evolution of a clumpy and turbulent molecular cloud region and its fragmentation into a protostellar cluster is investigated numerically. The effect of different initial density and velocity distributions, generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen , Andreas Burkert

The injection and evolution of turbulence in the intergalactic medium is studied by means of mesh-based hydrodynamical simulations, including a subgrid scale (SGS) model for small-scale unresolved turbulence. The simulations show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-03 L. Iapichino , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Merklein

The wavelength range 912-2000A (hereafter far-UV) provides access to absorption lines of the interstellar medium (ISM), circumgalactic medium (CGM), and intergalactic medium (IGM) in phases spanning a wide range of ionization, density,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-19 V. Lebouteiller , D. Kunth , J. Roman-Duval , P. Richter , C. Gry , B. James , A. Aloisi

The interstellar medium of the radio galaxy IC 5063 is highly perturbed by an AGN jet expanding in the gaseous disc of the galaxy. We model this interaction with relativistic hydrodynamic simulations and multiphase initial conditions for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Alex Y. Wagner , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Raffaella Morganti , Tom Oosterloo , Nicole Nesvadba , Ralph S. Sutherland

Recent observations suggest that intensive molecular cloud collision can trigger massive star/cluster formation. The most important physical process caused by the collision is a shock compression. In this paper, the influence of a shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-07 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Patrick Hennebelle , Yasuo Fukui , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The SILCC project (SImulating the Life-Cycle of molecular Clouds) aims at a more self-consistent understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) on small scales and its link to galaxy evolution. We simulate the evolution of the multi-phase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 S. K. Walch , P. Girichidis , T. Naab , A. Gatto , S. C. O. Glover , R. Wünsch , R. S Klessen , P. C. Clark , T. Peters , C. Baczynski

Evolutions of X-ray clusters of galaxies are studied by N-body (shell model) + mesh code (TVD) simulations on the assumption of spherical symmetry. We consider a density perturbation of $10^{15} M_{\odot}$ composed of dark matter and gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Motokazu Takizawa , Shin Mineshige

We present a new particle code for modelling the evolution of galaxies. The code is based on a multi-phase description for the interstellar medium (ISM). We included star formation (SF), stellar feedback by massive stars and planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Harfst , Christian Theis , Gerhard Hensler

Aims: Ultraviolet (UV) lines of neutral carbon observed in absorption in the local diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) have long revealed that a substantial fraction of the mass of the gas lies at a thermal pressure one to three orders of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Benjamin Godard , Guillaume Pineau Des Forêts , Jeremy La Porte , Mona Merlin-Weck

This study investigates Parker instability in an interstellar medium (ISM) near the Galactic plane using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. Parker instability arises from the presence of a magnetic field in a plasma,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-06 Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko , Chih-Yueh Wang

(ABBREVIATED) Understanding the formation of stars in galaxies is central to much of modern astrophysics. In this review the relation between interstellar turbulence and star formation is discussed. Supersonic turbulence can provide support…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Ralf S. Klessen

Cold Fronts and shocks are hallmarks of the complex intra-cluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters. They are thought to occur due to gas motions within the ICM and are often attributed to galaxy mergers within the cluster. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-12 Elad Zinger , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin Lau , Andrey. V. Kravtsov

Young massive stars in the central parsec of our Galaxy are best explained by star formation within at least one, and possibly two, massive self-gravitating gaseous discs. With help of numerical simulations, we here consider whether the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Hobbs , Sergei Nayakshin

The formation of stars occurs in the dense molecular cloud phase of the interstellar medium. Observations and numerical simulations of molecular clouds have shown that supersonic magnetised turbulence plays a key role for the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Andrew Lehmann , Christoph Federrath , Mark Wardle

We performed sub-parsec (~0.06pc) scale simulations of two idealised molecular clouds with different masses undergoing a collision. Gas clumps with density greater than 1e-20 g/cm3 (0.3e4 cm-3) were identified as pre-stellar cores and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Ken Takahira , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Asao Habe

Feedback from supernovae is an essential aspect of galaxy formation. In order to improve subgrid models of feedback we perform a series of numerical experiments to investigate how supernova explosions power galactic winds. We use the Flash…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Creasey , Tom Theuns , Richard G. Bower

Astrochemistry has been widely developed as a power tool to probe physical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) in various conditions of the Milky Way (MW) Galaxy, and in near and distant galaxies. Most current studies conventionally…

A stochastic model of fragmentation of molecular clouds has been developed for studying the resulting Initial Mass Function (IMF) where the number of fragments, inter-occurrence time of fragmentation, masses and velocities of the fragments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-11 Suman Paul , Tanuka Chattopadhyay

The interstellar medium (ISM) is an inseparable part of the Milky Way ecosystem whose evolutionary history remains a challenging question. We trace the evolution of the molecular ISM using a sample of Young Stellar Objects (YSO) association…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Guang-Xing Li , Ji-Xuan Zhou , Bing-Qiu Chen

A magnetohydrodynamic model of a steady, transverse C-type shock in a dense molecular cloud is presented. A complete gas-grain chemical network is taken into account: the gas-phase chemistry, the adsorption of gas species on dust grains,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-12 A. V. Nesterenok