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The intricate interplay of atmospheric shock waves and a complex, variable radiation field with non-equilibrium dust formation presents a considerable challenge to self-consistent modelling of atmospheres and winds of AGB stars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Hoefner

Superbubbles that result from the stellar winds and supernovae of OB associations probably play a fundamental role in the structure and energetics of the ISM in star-forming galaxies. Their influence may also dominate the relationship…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Oey

Initial results are presented from 3D MHD modelling of stellar-wind bubbles around O stars moving supersonically through the ISM. We describe algorithm updates that enable high-resolution 3D MHD simulations at reasonable computational cost.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-06 Jonathan Mackey , Samuel Green , Maria Moutzouri

I review the current state of numerical simulations of stellar feedback in the context of star formation at scales ranging from the formation of individual stars to models of galaxy formation including cosmic reionisation. I survey the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-26 James E. Dale

Feedback from massive stars is believed to play a critical role in shaping the galaxy mass function, the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM), and the low efficiency of star formation, but the exact form of the feedback is uncertain.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

This paper reviews our current understanding of interstellar dust models, what constitutes a viable dust model, what observational constraints are essential for deriving such model, and the current viable dust models. Interstellar dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Dwek

Observations give evidences of the presence of metals in the intergalactic medium (IGM). The stars responsible for transforming hydrogen and helium into more complex atoms do not form outside the galaxies in the standard scenario of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yohan Dubois , Romain Teyssier

Stellar feedback plays a key role in galaxy formation by regulating star formation, driving interstellar turbulence and generating galactic scale outflows. Although modern simulations of galaxy formation can resolve scales of 10-100 pc,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Oscar Agertz , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Samuel N. Leitner , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We revisit the launch of the galactic outflow in M82 using hydrodynamic simulations. Employing a sink-particle module, we self-consistently resolve star formation and feedback, avoiding reliance on simplified models. We investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Tian-Rui Wang , Weishan Zhu , Xue-Fu Li , Wen-Sheng Hong , Long-Long Feng

The effects of wind-driven star formation feedback on the spatio-temporal organization of stars and gas in galaxies is studied using two-dimensional intermediate-representational quasi-hydrodynamical simulations. The model retains only a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Chappell , John Scalo

Context. Stellar feedback regulates star formation and shapes the interstellar medium, yet its role during the collapse of molecular clouds remains uncertain over a wide range of initial conditions. Aims. We explore how stellar winds and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 S. Jiménez , D. Kománek , R. Wünsch , J. Palouš , S. Ehlerová , S. Martínez-González , A. Srbljanović

We develop a new realistic prescription for modeling the stellar feedback, which minimizes any ad hoc assumptions about sub-grid physics. We start with developing high resolution models of the ISM and formulate the conditions required for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin

Most stars will experience episodes of substantial mass loss at some point in their lives. For very massive stars, mass loss dominates their evolution, although the mass loss rates are not known exactly, particularly once the star has left…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. J. Arthur

Star clusters interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) in various ways, most importantly in the destruction of molecular star-forming clouds, resulting in inefficient star formation on galactic scales. On cloud scales, ionizing radiation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-25 Daniel Rahner , Eric W. Pellegrini , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

The identification and tracking of stellar feedback-driven galaxy bubbles is an important topic in star formation and galactic structure research. However, current observational analysis of bubbles is limited in scope; information on bubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Aaron Angress , Michael M. Foley , Sarah M. R. Jeffreson , Alyssa Goodman , Lars Hernquist

We present two dimensional cylindrically symmetric hydrodynamic simulations and synthetic emission maps of a stellar wind propagating into an infalling, rotating environment. The resulting outflow morphology, collimation and stability…

The Interstellar Medium (ISM) is a complex, multi-phase system, where the history of the stars occurs. The processes of birth and death of stars are strongly coupled to the dynamics of the ISM. The observed chaotic and diffusive motions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 D. Falceta-Goncalves

Winds are ubiquitous in galaxies and often feature bubble structures. These wind bubbles are characterized by an external forward shock expanding in the surrounding medium and a wind termination shock separating the cool and fast wind from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-13 Enrico Peretti

Dwarf galaxies pose significant challenges for cosmological models. In particular, current models predict a dark matter density that is divergent at the center, in sharp contrast with observations which indicate an approximately constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Mashchenko , James Wadsley , H. M. P. Couchman

Feedback from massive stars shapes the ISM and affects the evolution of galaxies, but its mechanisms acting at the small scales ($\sim 10$ pc) are still not well constrained observationally, especially in the low-metallicity environments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 Ivan S. Gerasimov , Oleg V. Egorov , Tatiana A. Lozinskaya , Alexei V. Moiseev , Dmitry V. Oparin