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Fast stellar winds can sweep up ambient media and form bubbles. The evolution of a bubble is largely controlled by the content and physical conditions of the shocked fast wind in its interior. This hot gas was not clearly observed until the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 You-Hua Chu , Robert A. Gruendl , Martin A. Guerrero

We present a detailed study of the hydrodynamics of the matter reinserted by massive stars via stellar winds and supernovae explosions in young assembling galaxies. We show that the interplay between the thermalization of the kinetic energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Silich , G. Tenorio-Tagle , C. Munoz-Tunon , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , R. Wunsch , J. Palous

Large scale phenomena in spiral galaxies such as shear, supernovae, and magnetic fields all contribute to the formation and subsequent evolution of filamentary structure and star formation within them. In this paper, we analyze the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Rachel Pillsworth , Ralph E. Pudritz , Eric W. Koch , Theo J. O'Neill

Recent 3D dust maps of the local Milky Way are revolutionizing our understanding of the Sun's Galactic neighborhood, providing much needed insight into the large-scale organization of the interstellar medium. Focusing on the largest scales…

Together with interstellar turbulence, gravitation is one key player in star formation. It acts both at galactic scales in the assembly of gas into dense clouds, and inside those structures for their collapse and the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Florent Renaud , Benoit Famaey , Pavel Kroupa

Understanding the star formation process is central to much of modern astrophysics. For several decades it has been thought that stellar birth is primarily controlled by the interplay between gravity and magnetostatic support, modulated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf S. Klessen

Stars and planets are formed inside dense interstellar molecular clouds, by processes imprinted on the 3-dimensional (3D) morphology of the clouds. Determining the 3D structure of interstellar clouds remains challenging, due to projection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Aris Tritsis , Konstantinos Tassis

Massive stars are extremely luminous and drive strong winds, blowing a large part of their matter into the galactic environment before they finally explode as a supernova. Quantitative knowledge of massive star feedback is required to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Lidia M. Oskinova , Brankica Kubatova , Wolf-Rainer Hamann

Massive stars lose a large fraction of their original mass over the course of their evolution. These stellar winds shape the surrounding medium according to parameters that are the result of the characteristics of the stars, varying over…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Allard Jan van Marle , Rony Keppens , Sung-Chul Yoon , Norbert Langer

We use simulations with realistic models for stellar feedback to study galaxy mergers. These high resolution (1 pc) simulations follow formation and destruction of individual GMCs and star clusters. The final starburst is dominated by in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist , Desika Narayanan , Christopher C. Hayward , Norman Murray

Numerical simulations have become a major tool for understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Over the decades the field has made significant progress. It is now possible to simulate the formation of individual galaxies and galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The hydrodynamics and intrinsic properties of galactic-scale gaseous outflows generated by violent starbursts are thoroughly discussed, taking into account the hot gas chemical evolution and radiative cooling. It is shown that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergiy Silich , Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle

We use idealized three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of global galactic discs to study the launching of galactic winds by supernovae (SNe). The simulations resolve the cooling radii of the majority of supernova remnants (SNRs) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Drummond Fielding , Eliot Quataert , Davide Martizzi , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

Observations that resolve nearby galaxies into individual regions across multiple phases of the gas-star formation-feedback ``matter cycle'' have provided a sharp new view of molecular clouds, star formation efficiencies, timescales for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-01 Eva Schinnerer , Adam K. Leroy

The fragmentation of gas to form stars in molecular clouds is intrinsically linked to the turbulence within them. These internal motions are set at the birth of the cloud and may vary with galactic environment and as the cloud evolves. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-29 Jiten Dhandha , Zoe Faes , Rowan J. Smith

Feedback from massive stars is thought to play an important role in the evolution of molecular clouds. In this work we analyse the effects of stellar winds and supernovae (SNe) in the evolution of two massive ($\sim 10^6\,M_\odot$) giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-11 Ramon Rey-Raposo , Clare Dobbs , Oscar Agertz , Christian Alig

Context: The environments of young star clusters are shaped by the interactions of the powerful winds of massive stars, and their feedback on the cluster birth cloud. Several such clusters show diffuse gamma-ray emission on the degree…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-28 Lucia Härer , Thibault Vieu , Brian Reville

Hot, underdense bubbles powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are likely to play a key role in halting catastrophic cooling in the centers of cool-core galaxy clusters. We present three-dimensional simulations that capture the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

[abridged] The pressure exerted by the radiation of young stars may be an important feedback mechanism in forming star clusters and the disks of starburst galaxies. However, there is great uncertainty in how efficiently radiation couples to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson

Numerical simulations of the multi-phase interstellar medium have been carried out, using a 3D, nonlinear, magnetohydrodynamic, shearing-box model, with random motions driven by supernova explosions. These calculations incorporate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov , Aake Nordlund , Boris Gudiksen , Axel Brandenburg