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Supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to decay rapidly within a flow crossing time irrespective of the degree of magnetization. However, this general consensus of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-10 Chang-Goo Kim , Shantanu Basu

A local turbulence model is developed to study energy cascades in the interstellar medium (ISM) based on self-consistent two-dimensional fluid simulations. The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid interstellar medium (ISM) that…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , Gary P. Zank

Thermally bistable fluid tends to self-organize into clouds of hot and cold material, which are internally uniform and separated by thin conduction fronts. The evolution of these clouds has been studied for isobaric systems, but when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Henry Fetsch , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Multiphase gas -- ranging from cold molecular clouds ($\lesssim 100\,$K) to hot, diffuse plasma ($\gtrsim 10^6\,$K) is a defining feature of the interstellar, circumgalactic, intracluster, and intergalactic media. Accurately simulating its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Max Gronke , Evan Schneider

We analyzed absorption features arising from interstellar neutral carbon that appeared in the UV spectra of 89 stars recorded in the highest resolution echelle modes of STIS on HST so that we could determine the relative populations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-30 Edward B. Jenkins , Todd M. Tripp

A new scenario for the interaction of a jet with a background medium with cold clouds is investigated by means of hydrodynamic turbulence simulations with cooling. The idea is that the cold clouds are overtaken by a radio cocoon and stirred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Krause

We have performed time-dependent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) which account for galactic shear and magnetic fields, vertical gravity, and a radiative cooling function for atomic gas. This allows us to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

Precipitation of cold gas due to thermal instability in both galaxy clusters and the circumgalactic medium may regulate AGN feedback. We investigate thermal instability in idealized simulations of the circumgalactic medium with a parameter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Benjamin D. Wibking , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea

We summarise observations and our current understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies, which mainly consists of three phases: cold atomic or molecular gas and clouds, warm neutral or ionised gas, and hot ionised gas. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Manami Sasaki , Gabriele Ponti , Jonathan Mackey

The observational record of turbulence within the molecular gas phase of the interstellar medium is summarized. We briefly review the analysis methods used to recover the velocity structure function from spectroscopic imaging and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. H. Heyer , C. Brunt

Multiphase media have very complex structure and evolution. Accurate numerical simulations are necessary to make advances in our understanding of this rich physics. Because simulations can capture both the linear and nonlinear evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Tim Waters , Daniel Proga

The features for the unsteady process of thermal equilibration ("the fast motions") in a one-dimensional harmonic crystal lying in a viscous environment (e.g., a gas) are under investigation. It is assumed that initially the displacements…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-16 Serge N. Gavrilov , Anton M. Krivtsov

Linear analysis of the stability of diffuse clouds in the cold neutral medium with uniform magnetic field is performed. We consider that gas in equilibrium state is heated by cosmic rays, X-rays and electronic photoeffect on the surface of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander E. Dudorov , Constantine E. Stepanov , Sergey O. Fomin , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov

In this work, we perform numerical simulations of forced two-phase isotropic turbulence to study the stationary states of a two-phase mixture. We first formulate three different approaches to force a two-phase turbulent flow that maintains…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Suhas S Jain , Ahmed Elnahhas

Simulations of isolated giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are an important tool for studying the dynamics of star formation, but their turbulent initial conditions (ICs) are uncertain. Most simulations have either initialized a velocity field…

The diffuse medium in and around galaxies can exist in a multi-phase state: small, cold gas clouds contributing significantly to the total mass embedded in pressure equilibrium with a hotter, more diffuse volume-filling component. Modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Rainer Weinberger , Lars Hernquist

The density variance - Mach number relation of the turbulent interstellar medium is relevant for theoretical models of the star formation rate, efficiency, and the initial mass function of stars. Here we use high-resolution hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-08 Christopher A. Nolan , Christoph Federrath , Ralph S. Sutherland

In this work, we explore the link between star formation, turbulence and the thermal state of the multi-phase ISM. We analyse a suite of stratified box simulations modelling a realistic ISM that aims to probe environments similar to those…

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

The interstellar atomic hydrogen is known to be a 2-phase medium in which turbul ence plays an important r\^ole. Here we present high resolution numerical simulations describing the gas from tens of parsec down to hundreds of AU. This high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hennebelle , E. Audit
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