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The difference in shape between the observed galaxy stellar mass function and the predicted dark matter halo mass function is generally explained primarily by feedback processes. Feedback can shape the stellar-halo mass (SHM) relation by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Peter D. Mitchell , Joop Schaye

What exactly controls star formation in the Galaxy remains controversial. In particular, the role of feedback and magnetic field are still partially understood. We investigate the role played by supernovae feedback and magnetic field onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Patrick Hennebelle , Olivier Iffrig

We study the dependence of fragmentation in massive gas-rich galaxy disks at $z > 1$ on feedback model and hydrodynamical method, employing the GASOLINE2 SPH code and the lagrangian mesh-less code GIZMO in finite mass mode. We compare…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Lucio Mayer , Valentina Tamburello , Alessandro Lupi , Ben Keller , James Wadsley , Piero Madau

We use 1 kpc resolution cosmological AMR simulations of a Virgo-like galaxy cluster to investigate the effect of feedback from supermassive black holes (SMBH) on the mass distribution of dark matter, gas and stars. We compared three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore , Davide Martizzi , Yohan Dubois , Lucio Mayer

Stellar feedback is an essential step in the baryon cycle of galaxies, but it remains unconstrained beyond Cosmic Noon. We study the ionized gas kinematics, dynamical mass and gas-flow properties of a sample of 16 sub-$L^{\star}$…

Integral field units enable resolved studies of a large number of star-forming regions across entire nearby galaxies, providing insight on the conversion of gas into stars and the feedback from the emerging stellar populations over…

We use cosmological simulations to study the effects of supernova (SN) feedback on the dark matter distribution in galaxies. We simulate the formation of a Milky-Way type galaxy using a version of the SPH code GADGET2 which includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-17 Susana E. Pedrosa , Patricia B. Tissera , Cecilia Scannapieco

The role of feedback from massive stars is believed to be a key element in the evolution of molecular clouds. We use high-resolution 3D SPH simulations to explore the dynamical effects of a single O7 star located at the centre of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Walch , A. P. Whitworth , T. Bisbas , R. Wunsch , D. Hubber

While the importance of supernova feedback in galaxies is well established, its role on the scale of molecular clouds is still debated. In this work, we focus on the impact of supernovae on individual clouds, using a high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-02 Zu-Jia Lu , Veli-Matti Pelkonen , Paolo Padoan , Liubin Pan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

We use gas dynamic simulations to explore the effects of galactic winds on galaxy clusters. Two ensembles of 18 realizations, spanning a decade in temperature, are evolved with and without winds in an underlying biased CDM cosmology.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher A. Metzler , August E. Evrard

We present results on the clustering properties of galaxies as a function of both stellar mass and specific star formation rate (sSFR) using data from the PRIMUS and DEEP2 galaxy redshift surveys spanning 0.2 < z < 1.2. We use spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Alison L. Coil , Alexander J. Mendez , Daniel J. Eisenstein , John Moustakas

Radiation feedback from young star clusters embedded in giant molecular clouds (GMCs) is believed to be important to the control of star formation. For the most massive and dense clouds, including those in which super star clusters (SSCs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 M. Aaron Skinner , Eve C. Ostriker

We present a new version of a semi-analytic model of cosmological galaxy formation, incorporating a star formation law with a feedback depending on the galaxy-scale mean dust opacity and metallicity, motivated by recent observations of star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ryu Makiya , Tomonori Totani , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Masahiro Nagashima , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

We investigate radiative feedback from a 34 M$_\odot$ star in a $10^4$ M$_\odot$ turbulent cloud using three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) models. We use Monte Carlo radiative transfer to accurately compute photoionization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Ahmad A. Ali , Tim J. Harries

Feedback from Young Massive Clusters (YMCs) is an important driver of galaxy evolution. In the first few Myr, mechanical feedback is dominated by collective effects of the massive stellar winds in the YMC. The mass-loss rates and terminal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 C. J. K. Larkin , C. Hawcroft , J. Mackey , R. R. Lefever , L. Härer , A. A. C. Sander

It is well known that the energy input from massive stars dominates the thermal and mechanical heating of typical regions in the interstellar medium of galaxies. These effects are amplified tremendously in the immediate environment of young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan C. Tan , Christopher F. McKee

We employ a large sample of 20171 optically-selected groups and clusters at 0.15 < z < 0.4 in the SDSS to investigate how the stacked stellar mass fraction varies across a wide range of total mass, $M_{500}$. Our study improves upon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. M. Budzynski , S. E. Koposov , I. G. McCarthy , V. Belokurov

Most stars form in highly clustered environments within molecular clouds, but eventually disperse into the distributed stellar field population. Exactly how the stellar distribution evolves from the embedded stage into gas-free associations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-21 Juan P. Farias , Stella S. R. Offner , Michael Y. Grudić , Dávid Guszejnov , Anna L. Rosen

Stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies remains, to date, poorly explored, yet is crucial to understanding galaxy evolution in the early Universe. In particular, pre-supernova feedback has recently been found to play a significant role in…

We investigate the effects of gradual heating on the evolution of turbulent molecular clouds of mass $2\times 10^6$ M$_\odot$ and virial parameters ranging between $0.7-1.2$. This gradual heating represents the energy output from processes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-26 L. Garratt-Smithson , G. A. Wynn , C. Power , C. J. Nixon