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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,…

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We have applied our method for weighing the Galactic disk using phase-space spirals to the Gaia EDR3 proper motion sample. For stars in distant regions of the Galactic disk, the latitudinal proper motion has a close projection with vertical…

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Relying on the dramatic increase in the number of stars with full 6D phase-space information provided by the Gaia Data Release 3, we discover unambiguous signatures of phase-mixing in the stellar halo around the Sun. We show that for the…

We summarise observations and our current understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies, which mainly consists of three phases: cold atomic or molecular gas and clouds, warm neutral or ionised gas, and hot ionised gas. These…

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(Abridged) We trace the interaction processes of galaxies at intermediate redshift by measuring the irregularity of their ionized gas kinematics, and investigate these irregularities as a function of the environment (cluster versus field)…

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Turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies. The energy source for this turbulence has been much debated with many possible origins proposed. The universality of turbulence, its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Falceta-Goncalves , I. Bonnell , G. Kowal , J. Lepine , C. Braga

We explore the interplay between in-plane and vertical dynamics in stellar discs within the framework of the shearing box approximation. Julian and Toomre used the shearing sheet to show that leading density waves are amplified as they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Lawrence M. Widrow

Tidal encounters are believed to be one of the key drivers of galactic spiral structure in the Universe. Such spirals are expected to produce different morphological and kinematic features compared to density wave and dynamic spiral arms.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Alex R. Pettitt , Elizabeth J. Tasker , James W. Wadsley , Ben W. Keller , Samantha M. Benincasa

Only recently, complex models that include the global dynamics from dwarf satellite galaxies, dark matter halo structure, gas infalls, and stellar disk in a cosmological context became available to study the dynamics of disk galaxies such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-14 B. García-Conde , T. Antoja , S. Roca-Fàbrega , F. Gómez , P. Ramos , N. Garavito-Camargo , MA. Gómez-Flechoso

Using high resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the evolution of a self-gravitating multi-phase interstellar medium in the central kiloparsec region of a galactic disk. We find that a gravitationally and…

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Ionized gas and stellar kinematics have been measured along the major axes of seventeen nearby spiral galaxies of intermediate to late morphological type. We discuss the properties of each sample galaxy distinguishing between those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Pizzella , E. M. Corsini , J. C. Vega-Beltran , F. Bertola

The interstellar medium (ISM) is turbulent on all scales and in all phases. In this paper, we study turbulence with different tracers in four nearby star-forming regions: Orion, Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Taurus. We combine the APOGEE-2 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Trung Ha , Yuan Li , Marina Kounkel , Siyao Xu , Hui Li , Yong Zheng

Context. Spatially resolved observations of the ionized and molecular gas are critical for understanding the physical processes that govern the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies. Aims. To study the morpho-kinematic properties of the…

In this fourth article on weighing the Galactic disk using the shape of the phase-space spiral, we have tested our method on a billion particle three-dimensional N-body simulation, comprised of a Milky Way like host galaxy and a merging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Axel Widmark , Jason A. S. Hunt , Chervin F. P. Laporte , Giacomo Monari

Understanding the interplay of stellar feedback and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is essential to modeling the evolution of galaxies. To determine the timescales over which stellar feedback drives turbulence in the ISM, we…

We use hydrodynamic simulations to investigate nonlinear gas responses to an imposed stellar spiral potential in disk galaxies. The gaseous medium is assumed to be infinitesimally thin, isothermal, and unmagnetized. We consider various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yonghwi Kim , Woong-Tae Kim

We analyse the properties of circumgalactic gas around simulated galaxies in the redshift range z >= 3, utilising a new sample of cosmological zoom simulations. These simulations are intended to be representative of the observed samples of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Peter Mitchell , Jeremy Blaizot , Julien Devriendt , Taysun Kimm , Leo Michel-Dansac , Joakim Rosdahl , Adrianne Slyz

While cosmic rays $(E\gtrsim 1\,\mathrm{GeV})$ are well coupled to a galaxy's interstellar medium (ISM) at scales of $L>100\,\mathrm{pc}$, adjusting stratification and driving outflows, their impact on small scales is less clear. Based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-03 Roark Habegger , Ka Wai Ho , Ka Ho Yuen , Ellen G. Zweibel

Gaia data have revealed vertically asymmetric phase-space structures in the Milky Way (MW) disc, such as phase spirals, indicating vertical oscillations. These oscillations exhibit two distinct modes: the bending mode and the breathing…

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