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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to provide the energy that prevents runaway cooling of gas in the cores of galaxy clusters. However, how this energy is transported and thermalized throughout the Intracluster Medium (ICM) remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire

We use the GIBLE suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies with additional super-Lagrangian refinement in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) to quantify the origin and evolution of CGM cold gas clouds. The origin of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-25 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson , Drummond Fielding , Marcus Brüggen

Molecular gas disks are generally Toomre stable ($Q_T>$1) and yet clearly gravitationally unstable to structure formation as evidenced by the existence of molecular clouds and ongoing star formation. This paper adopts a 3D perspective to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Sharon E. Meidt

Observations of galaxy-cluster cores reveal that AGN feedback is strongly associated with both a short central cooling time ($t_{\rm c} \lesssim 10^9 \, {\rm yr}$) and accumulations of cold gas ($\lesssim 10^4 \, {\rm K}$). Also, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-13 Benjamin D. Wibking , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea

Galaxies evolve under the influence of gas flows between their interstellar medium and their surrounding gaseous halos known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). The CGM is a major reservoir of galactic baryons and metals, and plays a key…

This letter expands the stability criterion for radially stratified, vertically {unstratified} accretion disks incorporating thermal relaxation. We find a linear amplification of epicyclic oscillations in these disks that depends on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hubert Klahr , Alexander Hubbard

Precipitation is potentially a mechanism through which the circumgalactic medium (CGM) can regulate a galaxy's star formation. Here we present idealized simulations of isolated Milky Way-like galaxies intended to examine the ability of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Claire Kopenhafer , Brian W. O'Shea , G. Mark Voit

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an important energy source in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) that impact the multi-phase gas structure and dynamics. We perform two-dimensional CR-magnetohydrodynamic simulations to investigate the role of CRs in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-14 Xiaoshan Huang , Yan-fei Jiang , Shane W. Davis

I discuss the role of self-gravity and radiative heating and cooling in shaping the nature of the turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) of our galaxy. The heating and cooling cause it to be highly compressible, and, in some regimes of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-22 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Context: The thermal instability is one of the dynamical agents for turbulence in the diffuse interstellar medium, where both, turbulence and thermal instability interact in a highly non-linear manner. Aims: We study basic properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Seifried , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer

Numerous studies have investigated the role of thermal instability in regulating the phase transition between the cold cloudy and warm diffuse medium of the interstellar medium. Considerable interest has also been devoted in investigating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Maarit J. Mantere , Elizabeth Cole

The buoyancy-induced parallel flow in a vertical cylindrical porous layer is analysed. A radial thermal gradient caused by a uniformly distributed heat source is assumed to induce the buoyant flow. The layer boundaries are modelled as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-03 A. Barletta , D. A. S. Rees , B. Pulvirenti

Turbulent gas motions are observed in the intracluster medium (ICM). The ICM is density-stratified, with the gas density being highest at the centre of the cluster and decreasing radially outwards. As a result of this, Kolmogorov…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-04 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

A new statistical approach is presented to study the thermal instability process of optically thin unmagnetized plasma. In this approach the time evolution of mass distribution function over temperature is calculated. This function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. F. Illarionov , I. V. Igumenshchev

Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

We have studied the thermal instabilities in the context of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), addressing the cases of thin and thick (stratified) X-ray illuminated media. For that, we have compared the behaviour of different models in pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Goncalves , S. Collin , A. -M. Dumont

In the outskirts of the intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters, the temperature decreases with radius. Due to the weakly collisional nature of the plasma, these regions are susceptible to the magneto-thermal instability (MTI), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Thomas Berlok , Eliot Quataert , Martin E. Pessah , Christoph Pfrommer

All gasdynamical models for the evolution of gaseous content of galaxies assume that cooling from the hot, virialized phase to the cold phase occured through some sort of thermal instability. Subsequent formation of colder clouds embedded…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Milan M. Cirkovic

The equilibrium state of a turbulent clumpy gas disk is analytically investigated. The disk consists of distinct self-gravitating clouds. Gravitational cloud-cloud interactions transfer energy over spatial scales and produce a viscosity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , T. Beckert

The gas surrounding galaxies outside their disks or interstellar medium and inside their virial radii is known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). In recent years this component of galaxies has assumed an important role in our understanding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Jason Tumlinson , Molly S. Peeples , Jessica K. Werk
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