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After recombination the cosmic gas was left in a cold and neutral state. However, as the first stars and black holes formed within early galactic systems, their UV and X-ray radiation induced a gradual phase transition of the intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-18 Andrea Ferrara , Stefania Pandolfi

The circumgalactic medium (CGM), i.e. the gaseous haloes around galaxies, is both the reservoir of gas that fuels galaxy growth and the repository of gas expelled by galactic winds. Most cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations focus their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-12 Freeke van de Voort , Volker Springel , Nir Mandelker , Frank C. van den Bosch , Rüdiger Pakmor

Observations of non-thermal emission from several supernova remnants suggest that magnetic fields close to the blastwave are much stronger than would be naively expected from simple shock compression of the field permeating the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 T. P. Downes , L. O'C. Drury

While interstellar gas is known to be supersonically turbulent, the injection processes of this turbulence are still unclear. Many studies suggest a dominant role of gravitational instabilities. However, their effect on galaxy morphology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Jérémy Fensch , Frédéric Bournaud , Noé Brucy , Yohan Dubois , Patrick Hennebelle , Joakim Rosdahl

The cosmic baryonic fluid at low redshifts is similar to a fully developed turbulence. In this work, we use simulation samples produced by the hybrid cosmological hydrodynamical/N-body code, to investigate on what scale the deviation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-05 Hua-Yu Yang , Ping He , Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

In magnetized plasma turbulence, the couplings of perpendicular spatial scales that arise due to the nonlinear interactions are analyzed from the perspective of the free-energy exchanges. The plasmas considered here, with appropriate ion or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Bogdan Teaca , Alejandro Bañón Navarro , Frank Jenko

The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly becoming the new frontier of extra-galactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties and their connection to galaxies at $z\geq5.5$ under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Enrico Garaldi , Rahul Kannan , Aaron Smith , Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Two dimensional compressible magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations run for 20 crossing times on a 800x640 grid with two stable thermal states show persistent hierarchical density structures and Kolmogorov turbulent motions in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce G. Elmegreen

We examine the thermal energy contents of the intergalactic medium (IGM) over three orders of magnitude in both mass density and gas temperature using thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZE). The analysis is based on {\it Planck} tSZE map…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Seunghwan Lim , Houjun Mo , Huiyuan Wang , Xiaohu Yang

Gravitational instabilities play an important role in galaxy evolution and in shaping the interstellar medium (ISM). The ISM is observed to be highly turbulent, meaning that observables like the gas surface density and velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Oscar Agertz , Alessandro B. Romeo , Kearn Grisdale

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

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

We report a universal mechanism for turbulence-driven magnetic islands in fusion plasmas. Using gyrokinetic simulations of a linearly stable tearing mode in a large-aspect-ratio toroidal geometry under collisionless conditions, we…

We use numerical hydrodynamical simulations of early structure formation in a LCDM universe to investigate the spin temperature and 21cm brightness of the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of cosmic reionization, at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Kuhlen , Piero Madau , Ryan Montgomery

We employ the IllustrisTNG simulation data to investigate the turbulent and thermal motions of the cosmic baryonic fluid. With continuous wavelet transform techniques, we define the pressure spectra, or density-weighted velocity power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Yun Wang , Ping He

Galactic disks consist of both stars and gas. The gas is more dynamically responsive than the stars, and strongly nonlinear structures and velocities can develop in the ISM even while stellar surface density perturbations remain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Clusters of galaxies form through major merger and/or absorption of smaller groups. In fact, some characteristic structures such as cold fronts, which are likely relevant to moving substructures, are found by {\it Chandra}. It is expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Motokazu Takizawa

Ionization occurs in the upper atmospheres of hot Jupiters and in the interiors of Gas Giant Planets, leading to magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects which couple the momentum and the magnetic field, thereby significantly altering the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-12 Santiago J. Benavides , Glenn R. Flierl

The life-cycle, structure, and dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM) is regulated by turbulence. Complex physical processes, including supernova (SN) explosions, shear, and gravitational collapse, drive and maintain turbulence, but it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-06 Isabella A. Gerrard , Christoph Federrath