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We exploit long-baseline ALMA sub-mm observations of the lensed star-forming galaxy SDP 81 at z=3.042 to investigate the properties of inter-stellar medium on scales of 50-100pc. The kinematics of the CO gas within this system are well…

We examine the linear stability and nonlinear growth of the thermal instability in isobarically contracting gas with various metallicities and FUV field strengths. When the H2 cooling is suppressed by FUV fields (G_0>10^-3) or the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kazuyuki Omukai

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a key ingredient of galaxies and their evolution, consisting of multiphase, turbulent dust and gas. Some of the star-forming regions in our Galaxy originate from cloud-cloud and wind-cloud collisions, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Sebastián Navarrete , Bryan J. Pinargote , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

Resolved metallicity studies of local disk galaxies have revealed that their interstellar media (ISMs) are far from chemically homogeneous, displaying significant ($\sim 0.05$ dex) variations in the metallicity on characteristic scales of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-13 Benjamin Metha , Michele Trenti , Colin Norman

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), being a nearby and actively star-forming satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is an ideal site to observe the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) of a galaxy across the electromagnetic spectrum. We aim to…

Galaxies' interstellar media (ISM) are observed to be supersonically-turbulent, but the ultimate power source that drives turbulent motion remains uncertain. The two dominant models are that the turbulence is driven by star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Mark R. Krumholz , Blakesley Burkhart

MHD turbulence plays a central role in the physics of star-forming molecular clouds and the interstellar medium. I here show that MHD turbulence in molecular clouds must be driven to account for the observed supersonic motions in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We investigate the role of supernova (SN)-driven galactic winds in the chemical enrichment of the intracluster medium (ICM). Such outflows on galactic scales have their origin in huge star forming regions and expel metal enriched material…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Verena Baumgartner , Dieter Breitschwerdt

We use three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations to study phase transformations occurring in a clumpy interstellar gas exposed to time-dependent volumetric heating. To mimic conditions in the Galactic interstellar medium, we take…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

This paper develops an analytical framework for the retarding forces on macroscopic spherical probes travelling through the interstellar medium (ISM) at relativistic speeds (0.1c to 0.99c). Integrating the aberrated momentum flux of both…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Lucky Gangwar

The structure and dynamics of diffuse gas in the Milky Way and other disk galaxies may be strongly influenced by thermal and magnetorotational instabilities (TI and MRI) on scales of about 1-100 pc. We initiate a study of these processes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

The ISM, powered by SNe, is turbulent and permeated by a magnetic field (with a mean and a turbulent component). It constitutes a frothy medium that is mostly out of equilibrium and is ram pressure dominated on most of the temperature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-10-28 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

Molecular hydrogen (H2) is the primary component of the reservoirs of cold, dense gas that fuel star formation in our galaxy. While the H2 abundance is ultimately regulated by physical processes operating on small scales in the interstellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Robert Feldmann , Jose Hernandez , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We use a high-resolution grid-based hydrodynamics method to simulate the multi-phase interstellar medium in a Milky Way-size quiescent disk galaxy. The models are global and three-dimensional, and include a treatment of star formation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan

Galactic outflows have density, temperature, and velocity variations at least as large as that of the multiphase, turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) from which they originate. We have conducted a suite of parsec-resolution numerical…

We consider the size distribution of superbubbles in a star forming galaxy. Previous studies have tried to explain the distribution by using adiabatic self-similar evolution of wind driven bubbles, assuming that bubbles stall when pressure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-23 Biman B Nath , Pushpita Das , M. S. Oey

In this paper, we investigate the structure of condensation fronts from warm diffuse gas to cold neutral medium (CNM) under the plane parallel geometry. The solutions have two parameters, the pressure of the CNM and the mass flux across the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Star formation depends on the available gaseous "fuel" as well as galactic environment, with higher specific star formation rates where gas is predominantly molecular and where stellar (and dark matter) densities are higher. The partition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Eve C. Ostriker

We present a new simulation suite for the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM) in galactic disks using the TIGRESS-NCR framework. Distinctive aspects of our simulation suite are: (1) sophisticated and comprehensive numerical treatments of…