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We present a self-consistent hydrodynamical simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy, at the resolution of 0.05 pc. The model includes star formation and a new implementation of stellar feedback through photo-ionization, radiative pressure and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 F. Renaud , F. Bournaud , E. Emsellem , B. Elmegreen , R. Teyssier , J. Alves , D. Chapon , F. Combes , A. Dekel , J. Gabor , P. Hennebelle , K. Kraljic

Volume density is a key physical quantity controlling the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) and star formation, but it cannot be accessed directly by observations of molecular clouds. We aim at estimating the volume density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-15 Jan H. Orkisz , Jouni Kainulainen

By resimulating a region of a global disc simulation at higher resolution, we resolve and study the properties of molecular clouds with a range of masses from a few 100's M$_{\odot}$ to $10^6$ M$_{\odot}$. The purpose of our paper is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Clare L. Dobbs

We briefly discuss the relevance of Lyman alpha forest observations for measuring cosmological parameters, comparing the properties of high z QSO spectra with those of artifical spectra from hydrodynamic simulations, based on hierarchical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Rauch

The size-velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) relation, while well established for giant HII regions, remains uncertain for their smaller counterparts (physical radii R < 20 pc). Thanks to the LAMOST MRS-N dataset's large sky coverage and high…

We construct a large data set of global structural parameters for 1300 field and cluster spiral galaxies and explore the joint distribution of luminosity L, optical rotation velocity V, and disk size R at I- and 2MASS K-bands. The I- and…

We aim to better understand how the spatial structure of molecular clouds is governed by turbulence. For that, we study the large-scale spatial distribution of low density molecular gas and search for characteristic length scales. We employ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 N. Schneider , S. Bontemps , R. Simon , V. Ossenkopf , C. Federrath , R. Klessen , F. Motte , P. Andre , J. Stutzki , C. Brunt

This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane and includes 98% of the $^{12}$CO emission observed within $b\pm5^\circ$. The catalog was produced using a hierarchical cluster identification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Norman Murray , Eve J. Lee

Kinetic energy stored in ISM bulk/turbulent motions is a crucial ingredient to properly describe most properties of observed galaxies. By using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate how this energy is injected by supernovae and dissipated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Massimo Ricotti , Andrea Ferrara

We present an analysis of local molecular clouds (-6 <VLSR< 30 km/s, i.e., <1.5 kpc) in the first Galactic quadrant (25.8{\deg} <l<49.7{\deg} and |b|<5{\deg}), a pilot region of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) CO survey. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 Qing-Zeng Yan , Ji Yang , Yang Su , Yan Sun , Chen Wang

The velocity dispersion of galaxies on small scales ($r\sim1h^{-1}$ Mpc), $\sigma_{12}(r)$, can be estimated from the anisotropy of the galaxy-galaxy correlation function in redshift space. We apply this technique to ``mock-catalogs''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Rachel S. Somerville , Joel R. Primack , Richard Nolthenius

Pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) have been used to model the electron density of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Galactic disk as a plane-parallel medium, despite significant scatter in the DM-distance distribution and strong evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-10 Stella Koch Ocker , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

Deep interferometric observations of CO and dust continuum emission are obtained with the Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) at 230 GHz to investigate the physical nature of the giant molecular cloud (GMC) population in the Andromeda galaxy (M31).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 Charles J. Lada , Jan Forbrich , Glen Petitpas , Sebastien Viaene

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…

Characterizing the spatial and velocity structure of molecular clouds is a first step towards a better understanding of interstellar turbulence and its link to star formation. We present observations and structure analysis results for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Sun , C. Kramer , V. Ossenkopf , F. Bensch , J. Stutzki , M. Miller

The standard method of measuring the galaxy pairwise velocity dispersion on small scales is heavily weighted by the densest regions in a way that is difficult to calibrate. We propose a new statistic which measures the small-scale velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael A. Strauss , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Renyue Cen

We present an empirical dynamical model of the local interstellar medium based on 270 radial-velocity measurements for 157 sight lines toward nearby stars. Physical-parameter measurements (i.e., temperature, turbulent velocity, depletions)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-28 Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

The universality of interstellar turbulence is examined from observed structure functions of 27 giant molecular clouds and Monte Carlo modeling. We show that the structure functions, dv=v0 l^gamma, derived from wide field imaging of CO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Heyer , Christopher Brunt

We investigate the dependence of the luminosity-diameter relation of galaxies on the environment. This study is based on a comparison between the 80 galaxies in the Shapley-Ames Catalog that are located within a distance of 10 Mpc, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sidney van den Bergh

We derive the physical properties of 580 molecular clouds based on their 12CO and 13CO line emission detected in the University of Massachusetts-Stony Brook (UMSB) and Galactic Ring surveys. We provide a range of values of the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Julia Roman-Duval , James M. Jackson , Mark Heyer , Jill Rathborne , Robert Simon