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The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is responsive to kinetic disruptions generated by nearby astrophysical events. In this work, we study the saturation and dissipation of turbulent hydrodynamics within the CGM through an extensive array of 252…

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Multiphase gas can be found in many astrophysical environments, such as galactic outflows, stellar wind bubbles, and the circumgalactic medium, where the interplay between turbulence, cooling, and viscosity can significantly influence gas…

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To model the temperature evolution of optically thin astrophysical environments at MHD scales, radiative and collisional cooling rates are typically either pre-tabulated or fit into a functional form and then input into MHD codes as a…

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The low-mass condensations (LMCs) have been observed within the molecular cloud cores. In this research, we investigate the effect of isobaric thermal instability (TI) applied for forming these LMCs. For this purpose, at first we…

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Complex turbulent motions of magnetized gas are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. The source of this turbulence, however, is still poorly understood. Previous work suggests that compression caused by supernova shockwaves, gravity, or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Ankush Mandal , Christoph Federrath , Bastian Körtgen

Rapid accretion of cold gas plays a crucial role in getting gas into galaxies. It has been suggested that this accretion proceeds along narrow streams that might also directly drive the turbulence in galactic gas, dynamical disturbances,…

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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

The existence of substellar cold H2 globules in planetary nebulae and the mere existence of comets suggest that the physics of cold interstellar gas might be much richer than usually envisioned. We study the case of a cold gaseous medium in…

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We study how the interaction between the streaming instability and intrinsic gas-phase turbulence affects planetesimal formation via gravitational collapse in protoplanetary disks. Turbulence impedes the formation of particle clumps by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Daniel A. Gole , Jacob B. Simon , Rixin Li , Andrew N. Youdin , Philip J. Armitage

The inner regions of protoplanetary disks are prone to thermal instability (TI), which can significantly impact the thermal and dynamic evolution of planet-forming regions. Observable as episodic accretion outbursts, such periodic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Michael Cecil , Mario Flock

Galaxy evolution depends strongly on the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM). Motivated by the need to incorporate the properties of the ISM in cosmological simulations we construct a simple method to include the contribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuval Birnboim , Shmuel Balberg , Romain Teyssier

In dilute astrophysical plasmas, thermal conduction is primarily along magnetic field lines, and therefore highly anisotropic. As a result, the usual convective stability criterion is modified from a condition on entropy to a condition on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ian J. Parrish , James M. Stone

We investigate the role of thermal instability, arising from radiative cooling of an optically thin, dusty plasma, by linear stability analysis. The corresponding isobaric stability condition for condensation mode is found to be modified…

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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…

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The gas in galaxy clusters is heated by shock compression through accretion (outer shocks) and mergers (inner shocks). These processes additionally produce turbulence. To analyse the relation between the thermal and turbulent energies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Wolfram Schmidt , Jan F. Engels , Jens C. Niemeyer , Ann S. Almgren

Protoplanetary discs (PPDs) can host a number of instabilities that may partake directly or indirectly in the process of planetesimal formation. These include the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI), Convective Overstability (COS), Streaming…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Marius Lehmann , Min-Kai Lin

The radiative cooling of optically thin gaseous regions and the formation of a two-phase medium and of cold gas clouds with a clumpy substructure is investigated. In optically thin clouds, the growth rate of small isobaric density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Burkert , D. N. C. Lin

Turbulent diffuse molecular clouds can exhibit complicated morphologies caused by the interactions among radiation, chemistry, fluids, and fields. We performed full 3D simulations for turbulent diffuse molecular interstellar media,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Nannan Yue , Lile Wang , Thomas Bisbas , Donghui Quan , Di Li

Galactic disks consist of both stars and gas. The gas is more dynamically responsive than the stars, and strongly nonlinear structures and velocities can develop in the ISM even while stellar surface density perturbations remain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

The observed rapid onset of star formation in molecular clouds requires rapid formation of dense fragments which can collapse individually before being overtaken by global gravitationally-driven flows. Many previous investigations have…

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