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Massive, young stars are the main source of energy that maintains multiphase structure and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM), and without this "feedback" the star formation rate (SFR) would be much higher than is observed. Rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-28 Chang-Goo Kim , Jeong-Gyu Kim , Munan Gong , Eve C. Ostriker

The transition from the diffuse warm neutral medium (WNM) to the dense cold neutral medium (CNM) is what set the initial conditions to the formation of molecular clouds. The properties of the turbulent cascade in the WNM, essential to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Antoine Marchal , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes

We use the Gaussian-fit results of Paper I to investigate the properties of interstellar HI in the Solar neighborhood. The Warm and Cold Neutral Media (WNM and CNM) are physically distinct components. The CNM spin temperature histogram…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Carl Heiles , T. H. Troland

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

Turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM) is driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) jets, by mergers, and in the wakes of infalling galaxies. It not only governs gas motion but also plays a key role in the ICM thermodynamics. Turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Mrinal Jetti , Prateek Sharma , Christoph Federrath

The ISM is a turbulent, multi-phase, and multi-scale medium following scaling relations. Analytical models of galactic gaseous disks need to take into account the multi-scale and multi-phase nature of the interstellar medium. They can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 T. Lizée , B. Vollmer , J. Braine , P. Gratier , F. Bigiel

We present 21-cm absorption measurements towards 12 radio continuum sources with previously identified thermally-unstable warm neutral medium (WNM). These observations were obtained with the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) and were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Ayesha Begum , Snezana Stanimirovic , W. M. Goss , Carl Heiles , Anthony S. Pavkovich , Patrick Hennebelle

Atomic fine structure lines have been detected in the local Universe and at high redshifts over the past decades. The [C II] emission line at 158 $\mu$m is an important observable as it provides constraints on the interstellar medium (ISM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Andrés Felipe Ramos Padilla , Lingyu Wang , Sylvia Ploeckinger , F. F. S. van der Tak , Scott Trager

The interstellar medium (ISM) is subject, on one hand, to heating and cooling processes that tend to segregate it into distinct phases due to thermal instability (TI), and on the other, to turbulence-driving mechanisms that tend to produce…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-06 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

We report on a comparison between 21 cm rotation measure (RM) and the optically-thin atomic hydrogen column density (N_HI) measured towards unresolved extragalactic sources in the Galactic plane of the northern sky. HI column densities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Tyler Foster , Roland Kothes , Joanne Brown

H$_{\rm I}$ 21-cm and $^{12}$CO 2.6-mm line emissions respectively trace the atomic and molecular gas phases, but they miss most of the opaque H$_{\rm I}$ and diffuse H$_2$ present in the Dark Neutral Medium (DNM) at the transition between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Q. Remy , I. A. Grenier , D. J. Marshall , J. M. Casandjian

We introduce the PRISM interstellar medium (ISM) model for thermochemistry and its implementation in the RAMSES-RTZ code. The model includes a non-equilibrium primordial, metal, and molecular chemistry network for 115 species coupled to…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the diffuse gas surrounding a galaxy's halo, and it plays a vital role in the galactic baryon cycle. However, its mass distribution across the virial phase and the cooler, denser atomic phase, remains…

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The radio frequency 1.4 GHz transition of the atomic hydrogen is one of the important tracers of the diffuse neutral interstellar medium. Radio astronomical observations of this transition, using either a single dish telescope or an array…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-29 Nirupam Roy

We simulate the multi-phase interstellar medium randomly heated and stirred by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters of the solar neighbourhood. Here we describe in detail both numerical and physical aspects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-03 F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , G. R. Sarson , M. J. Mantere

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

We discuss physical conditions in Galactic neutral hydrogen based on deep, high velocity resolution interferometric HI 21 cm absorption spectroscopy towards 33 compact extra-galactic radio sources. The HI 21 cm optical depth spectra have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-30 Nirupam Roy , Nissim Kanekar , Jayaram N. Chengalur

Dynamic and thermal processes regulate the structure of the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM), and ultimately establish how galaxies evolve through star formation. Thus, to constrain ISM models and better understand the interplay of…

Context. The gas kinetic temperature (TK) determines the physical and chemical evolution of the Interestellar Medium (ISM). However, obtaining reliable TK estimates usually requires expensive observations including the combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 A. Hacar , A. D. Bosman , E. F. van Dishoeck

The thermal history of the intergalactic medium is full of extremely useful data in the field of astrophysics and cosmology. In other words, by examining this environment in different redshifts, the effects of cosmology and astrophysics can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-23 S. Mobina Hosseini , Bahareh Soleimanpour Salmasi , Seyed Sajad Tabasi , Javad T. Firouzjaee