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Observations have suggested substantial departures from pressure equilibrium in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the plane of the Galaxy, even on scales under 50 pc. Nevertheless, multi-phase models of the ISM assume at least locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Dinshaw Balsara , Miguel A. Avillez , Jongsoo Kim

A local turbulence model is developed to study energy cascades in the interstellar medium (ISM) based on self-consistent two-dimensional fluid simulations. The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid interstellar medium (ISM) that…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , Gary P. Zank

An accurate estimate of the interstellar gas density distribution is crucial to understanding the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). To comprehend the ISM and CRs in a local environment, a study of the diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 T. Mizuno , S. Abdollahi , Y. Fukui , K. Hayashi , T. Koyama , A. Okumura , H. Tajima , H. Yamamoto

We use the millennium Arecibo 21 cm absorption-line survey measurements to examine the issue of the non-thermal contribution to the observed Galactic HI line widths. If we assume a simple, constant pressure model for the HI in the Galaxy,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-04 Nirupam Roy , Leshma Peedikakkandy , Jayaram N. Chengalur

We study the dynamics of phase transitions in the interstellar medium by means of three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations. We use a realistic cooling function and generic nonequilibrium initial conditions to follow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

Stellar feedback drives the circulation of matter from the disk to the halo of galaxies. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a vertical column of the interstellar medium with initial conditions typical of the…

In this paper, we investigate the structure of condensation fronts from warm diffuse gas to cold neutral medium (CNM) under the plane parallel geometry. The solutions have two parameters, the pressure of the CNM and the mass flux across the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Context. Multi-wavelength studies of galaxies and galactic nuclei allow us to build a relatively more complete picture of the interstellar medium (ISM), especially in the dusty regions of starburst galaxies. An understanding of the physical…

This review summarises what we have learnt in the last two decades based on HI 21-cm absorption observations about the cold interstellar medium (ISM) in the central regions of active galaxies and the interplay between this gas and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Raffaella Morganti , Tom Oosterloo

We present a study exploring the nature and properties of the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) and its connection to the atomic gas content in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies as traced by the HI 21cm line. Our sample includes 45 low-z…

Unraveling the multi-phase structure of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) as traced by neutral hydrogen (HI) is essential to understanding the lifecycle of the Milky Way. However, HI phase separation is a challenging and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Minjie Lei , S. E. Clark , Rudy Morel , E. Allys , Iryna S. Butsky , Caleb Redshaw , Drummond B. Fielding

Using one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations including interstellar heating, cooling, and thermal conduction, we investigate nonlinear evolution of gas flow across galactic spiral arms. We model the gas as a non-self-gravitating,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

I review recent results from numerical simulations on the structure and dynamics of the ISM, and attempt to put together a coherent dynamical scenario. In particular, I discuss results on 1) the spatial distribution of the gas components,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Evolution of the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) and molecular gas mass density is expected to be matched by a similarly strong evolution of the fraction of atomic hydrogen (HI) in the cold neutral medium (CNM). We use results from a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-16 James R. Allison

We report Arecibo 21 cm absorption-emission observations to characterise the physical properties of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the proximity of five giant molecular clouds (GMCs): Taurus, California, Rosette, Mon OB1, and NGC 2264. Strong HI…

The hydrodynamic state of the interstellar medium (ISM) heated and randomly stirred by supernovae (SNe) is investigated. We use a three-dimensional non-ideal hydrodynamic ISM model in a domain extending 0.5 x 0.5 kpc horizontally and 2 kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-04 Frederick Gent , Maarit J. Mantere , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher , Graeme R. Sarson

We present magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the star-forming multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) in stratified galactic patches with gas surface densities $\Sigma_\mathrm{gas} =$ 10, 30, 50, and 100 $\mathrm{M_\odot\,pc^{-2}}$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Tim-Eric Rathjen , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Philipp Girichidis , Richard Wünsch

This is the first in a series of three papers describing a project with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure abundances of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) in a sample of 9 nearby star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Bethan L. James , Alessandra Aloisi , Timothy M. Heckman , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Michael A. Wolfe

We examine the thermodynamic state and cooling of the low-$z$ Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) in five FIRE-2 galaxy formation simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies. We find that the CGM in these simulations is generally multiphase and…

Neutral hydrogen (HI) emission exhibits complex morphology that encodes rich information about the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM). We apply the scattering transform (ST) to characterize HI emission structure via a set of compact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Minjie Lei , S. E. Clark