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We simulate the evolution of cluster galaxies' hot interstellar medium (ISM) gas due to ram pressure and thermal conduction in the intracluster medium (ICM). At the density and temperature of the ICM, the mean free paths of ICM electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Rukmani Vijayaraghavan , Craig Sarazin

The cold interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in the galaxy evolution process. It is the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by these stars, and a sensitive tracer of internal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 Amelie Saintonge , Barbara Catinella

With 2D hydrodynamical simulations, we study the evolution of the hot gas flows in early-type galaxies, focussing on the effects of galaxy rotation on the thermal and dynamical status of the ISM. The galaxy is modelled as a two-component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-28 Andrea Negri , Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti

Ram pressure stripping (RPS) is a process that removes the interstellar medium (ISM) quickly, playing a vital role in galaxy evolution. Previous RPS studies have treated the ISM as single-phase or lack the resolution and physical processes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Woorak Choi , Chang-Goo Kim , Aeree Chung

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

We present an efficient heating/cooling method coupled with chemistry and ultraviolet (UV) radiative transfer, which can be applied to numerical simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM). We follow the time-dependent evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Munan Gong , Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Until recently, simulations that modeled entire galaxies were restricted to an isothermal or fixed 2- or 3-phase interstellar medium (ISM). This obscured the full role of the ISM in shaping the observed galactic-scale star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-28 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan , Jonathan C. Tan

A recent survey of the fine-structure excitation of neutral carbon reveals that the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane exhibits a thermal pressure, nT/k, that ranges from about 10^3 to 10^4 cm{-3}K from one location to the next, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Edward B. Jenkins

We use vertically-resolved numerical hydrodynamic simulations to study star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in galactic disks. We focus on outer disk regions where diffuse HI dominates, with gas surface densities Sigma_SFR=3-20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

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 mechanisms that maintain turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) are still not identified. This work investigates how we can distinguish between two fundamental driving mechanisms: the accumulated effect of stellar feedback versus…

Intergalactic space is filled with a pervasive medium of ionized gas, the Intergalactic Medium (IGM). A residual neutral fraction is detected in the spectra of Quasi-Stellar Objects at both low and high redshifts, revealing a highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Avery A. Meiksin

This work investigates some aspects of the transport of low-energy positrons in the interstellar medium (ISM). We consider resonance interactions with magnetohydrodynamic waves above the resonance threshold. Below the threshold, collisions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Gillard , P. Jean , A. Marcowith , K. Ferriere

Turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial in the process of star formation. Shocks produced by supernova explosions, jets, radiation from massive stars, or galactic spiral-arm dynamics are amongst the most common drivers of…

In this work, we explore the link between star formation, turbulence and the thermal state of the multi-phase ISM. We analyse a suite of stratified box simulations modelling a realistic ISM that aims to probe environments similar to those…

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a turbulent, highly structured multi-phase medium. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of the formation of galactic discs usually lack the resolution to accurately resolve those multi-phase structures.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Tobias Buck , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Bogdan Corobean

We examine the pressure of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM) of Milky-Way sized disk galaxies using fully cosmological SPH+N-body, high resolution simulations. These simulations include explicit treatment of metal-line cooling in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ferah Munshi , Charlotte Christensen , Thomas R. Quinn , Fabio Governato , James Wadsley , Sarah Loebman , Sijing Shen

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) granulations would drive orbital transport of stars in galactic disks, and in particular would produce roughly equal amounts of radial heating and radial migration. However, observations suggest that heating has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-19 Chris Hamilton

The injection of turbulence in the circum-galactic medium at redshift z = 2 is investigated using the mesh-based hydrodynamic code Enzo and a subgrid-scale (SGS) model for unresolved turbulence. Radiative cooling and heating by a uniform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 Luigi Iapichino , Matteo Viel , Stefano Borgani

The energy and momentum feedback from young stars has a profound impact on the interstellar medium (ISM), including heating and driving turbulence in the neutral gas that fuels future star formation. Recent theory has argued that this leads…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , Woong-Tae Kim