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We study steady, radial gas outflows from galaxies in an effort to understand the way tenuous and hot gas is transported to large distances away from galaxies. In particular, we obtain solutions for outflow problems, and study the outflow…

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The interstellar medium is a multiphase gas in which turbulent support is as important as thermal pressure. Sustaining this configuration requires both continuous turbulent stirring and continuous radiative cooling to match the decay of…

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We study the formation of disks via the cooling flow of gas within galactic haloes using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. These simulations resolve mass scales of a few thousand solar masses in the gas component for the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

We present the calculations of steady, spherical gas outflows from galaxies in an effort to understand the effects of the galaxy mass on the flow properties such as the size of the outflow regions, the efficiency of radiative cooling, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boqi Wang

When cool clouds are ram-pressure accelerated by a hot supersonic galactic wind, some of the clouds may be shredded by hydrodynamical instabilities and incorporated into the hot flow. Recent one-dimensional steady-state calculations show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-25 Dustin D. Nguyen , Todd A. Thompson , Evan E. Schneider , Ashley P. Tarrant

Theoretical and observational arguments suggest that there is a large amount of hot ($\sim 10^6$ K), diffuse gas residing in the Milky Way's halo, while its total mass and spatial distribution are still unclear. In this work, we present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Xiang-Er Fang , Fulai Guo , Ye-Fei Yuan

Most massive galaxies host a supermassive black hole at their centre. Matter accretion creates an active galactic nucleus (AGN), forming a relativistic particle wind. The wind heats and pushes the interstellar medium, producing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Martynas Laužikas , Kastytis Zubovas

The thermal stability of rotating, stratified, unmagnetized atmospheres is studied by means of linear-perturbation analysis, finding stability, overstability or instability, depending on the properties of the gas distribution, but also on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlo Nipoti

High surface density, rapidly star-forming galaxies are observed to have $\approx 50-100\,{\rm km\,s^{-1}}$ line-of-sight velocity dispersions, which are much higher than expected from supernova driving alone, but may arise from large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Sharanya Sur , Evan Scannapieco , Eve C. Ostriker

To better understand the nature of the multiphase material found in outflowing galaxies, we study the evolution of cold clouds embedded in flows of hot and fast material. Using a suite of adaptive-mesh refinement simulations that include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

Multiphase outflows, revealed by multi-wavelength observations, are crucial in redistributing gas and metals within and around galaxies. These outflows are often modelled theoretically using wind tunnel simulations of a cold ($\sim 10^4$ K)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma , Max Gronke

Observations show that (i) multiple gas phases can coexist in the atmospheres of galaxies and clusters; (ii) these atmospheres may be significantly rotating in the inner parts, with typical velocities that approach or even exceed the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Emanuele Sobacchi , Mattia Sormani

Cold ($T\sim 10^{4} \ \mathrm{K}$) gas is very commonly found in both galactic and cluster halos. There is no clear consensus on its origin. Such gas could be uplifted from the central galaxy by galactic or AGN winds. Alternatively, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-10 Suoqing Ji , S. Peng Oh , Michael McCourt

Acceleration can change the ionization of X-ray irradiated gas to the point that the gas becomes thermally unstable. Cloud formation, the expected outcome of thermal instability (TI), will be suppressed in a dynamic flow, however, due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Tim Waters , Daniel Proga , Randall Dannen , Sergei Dyda

We show that the gas in growing density perturbations is vulnerable to the influence of winds outflowing from nearby collapsed galaxies that have already formed stars. This suggests that the formation of nearby galaxies with masses less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Andrea Ferrara , Tom Broadhurst

We present three-dimensional, adaptive mesh simulations of dwarf galaxy out- flows driven by supersonic turbulence. Here we develop a subgrid model to track not only the thermal and bulk velocities of the gas, but also its turbulent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

I present a suite of three-dimensional simulations of the evolution of initially-hot material ejected by starburst-driven galaxy outflows. The simulations are conducted in a comoving frame that moves with the material, tracking atomic/ionic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Evan Scannapieco

We study fundamental properties of isothermal, steady and spherically symmetric galactic outflow in the gravitational potential of a cold dark matter halo and a central super-massive black hole. We find that there are two transonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-16 Asuka Igarashi , Masao Mori , Shin-ya Nitta

Using X-ray constrained beta-models for the radial distribution of gas in the outskirts of galaxies, we analyze the termination of galactic winds and the formation and evolution of halo clouds by thermal instability. At low mass-loss rates,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-15 Michael Shull , Jacob A. Moss

Observational evidence from local star-forming regions mandates that star formation occurs shortly after, or even during, molecular cloud formation. Models of the formation of molecular clouds in large-scale converging flows have identified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Adam Frank , Fabian Heitsch
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