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We perform a three-dimensional nonideal magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a strongly magnetized cloud core and investigate the complex structure caused by the interchange instability. This is the first simulation that does not use a central…

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We investigate how the properties of Galactic giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their denser substructures (clumps) correlate with the local star formation rate. We trace clouds using the $^{12}$CO(3-2) transition, as observed by the CO…

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The circumnuclear disc (CND) orbiting the Galaxy's central black hole is a reservoir of material that can ultimately provide energy through accretion, or form stars in the presence of the black hole, as evidenced by the stellar cluster that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Marvin Blank , Mark R. Morris , Adam Frank , Jonathan J. Carroll-Nellenback , Wolfgang J. Duschl

We present the high angular resolution and high sensitivity images of the "Circum-Nuclear Disk (CND)" and its surrounding region of Milky Way Galaxy in the CS J=2-1, SiO v=0 J=2-1, H^13CO^+ J=1-0, C^34S J=2-1, and CH_3OH J_{K_a,…

Interstellar dust plays a central role in the evolution of galaxies by shaping star formation, altering observed stellar properties, and redistributing radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. In the Milky Way, dust is concentrated in…

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Gas clouds are present in the Galactic centre, where they orbit around the supermassive black hole. Collisions between these clumps reduce their angular momentum, and as a result some of the clumps are set on a plunging trajectory.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-09 Bozena Czerny , Devaky Kunneriath , Vladimir Karas , Tapas K. Das

Fragmentation process in a cylindrical magnetized cloud is studied with the nested grid method. The nested grid scheme use 15 levels of grids with different spatial resolution overlaid subsequently, which enables us to trace the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Tomisaka

We discuss the fragmentation of a filamentary cloud on the basis of a 1-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of a self-gravitating gas cloud. The simulation shows that dense cores are produced with a semi-regular interval in space and time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Satoshi Yamamoto , Yasuhiro Hirahara

We present virial models for the global evolution of giant molecular clouds. Focusing on the presence of an accretion flow, and accounting for the amount of mass, momentum, and energy supplied by accretion and star formation feedback, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Nathan J. Goldbaum , Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher D. Matzner , Christopher F. McKee

The Galactic Center black hole and the nuclear star cluster are surrounded by a clumpy ring of gas and dust (the circumnuclear disk, CND) that rotates about them at a standoff distance of ~1.5 pc. The mass and density of individual clumps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Thibaut Paumard , Anna Ciurlo , Mark R. Morris , Tuan Do , Andrea M. Ghez

The mass distribution of the Galactic disk is constructed from the terminal velocity curve and the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation. Mass models numerically quantifying the detailed surface density profiles are tabulated. For $R_0 =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Stacy S. McGaugh

In this article, we proceed to study convection as a possible factor of episodic accretion in protoplanetary disks. Within the model presented in Article~I, the accretion history is analyzed at different rates and areas of matter inflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 L. A. Maksimova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov

Cosmic dust plays a vital role in stellar and galactic formation and evolution, but its three-dimensional structure in the Milky Way has remained unclear due to insufficient precise reddening and distance measurements. Although early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-16 Ruoyi Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu , Jifeng Liu

We leverage recent numerical simulations of highly resolved star-forming regions in a Milky Way-like Galaxy to explore the nature of extended gaseous envelopes around molecular clouds. We extract a sample of two dozen star-forming clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-06 Elijah Mullens , Catherine Zucker , Claire E. Murray , Rowan Smith

The formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk in unmagnetized molecular clouds is investigated using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations from the prestellar core until the end of the main accretion phase. In collapsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We leverage the 1 pc spatial resolution of the Leike et al. 2020 3D dust map to characterize the three-dimensional structure of nearby molecular clouds ($d \lesssim 400$ pc). We start by "skeletonizing" the clouds in 3D volume density space…

Ongoing accretion onto galactic disks has been recently theorized to progress via the unstable cooling of the baryonic halo into condensed clouds. These clouds have been identified as analogous to the High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs) observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. G. Peek , M. E. Putman , Jesper Sommer-Larsen

At a distance of 8 kpc only, the center of the Galaxy provides a unique testbed for studies about the physics of the interstellar medium and star formation in the nuclei of galaxies. Since it shares many properties of other, more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 R. Guesten , S. Philipp

We describe an overall picture of galactic-scale star formation. Recent high-resolution magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of two-fluid dynamics with cooling/heating and thermal conduction have shown that the formation of molecular clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-29 Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kazunari Iwasaki , Takashi Hosokawa

We present a new method to identify and characterize the structure of the intracluster medium (ICM) in simulated galaxy clusters. The method uses the median of gas properties, such as density and pressure, which we show to be very robust to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Zhuravleva , E. Churazov , A. Kravtsov , E. T. Lau , D. Nagai , R. Sunyaev
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