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The interstellar medium (ISM) is a turbulent, highly structured multi-phase medium. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of the formation of galactic discs usually lack the resolution to accurately resolve those multi-phase structures.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Tobias Buck , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Bogdan Corobean

Despite low elemental abundance of atomic deuterium in interstellar medium (ISM), observational evidences suggest that several species in gas-phase and in ices could be heavily fractionated. We explore various aspects of deuterium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-05 Ankan Das , Liton Majumdar , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Dipen Sahu

In a previous paper we investigated the energy transfer of massive stars to the interstellar medium as a function of time and the geometrical configuration of three massive stars via 3D-mesh-refining hydrodynamics simulations, following the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-02 Martin Krause , Roland Diehl , Hans Böhringer , Michael Freyberg , Daniel Lubos

Feedback from massive stars is one of the least understood aspects of galaxy formation. We perform a suite of vertically stratified local interstellar medium (ISM) simulations in which supernova rates and vertical gas column densities are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 M. Ryan Joung , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Greg L. Bryan

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a fundamental component of the Milky Way. Studying its chemical composition and the level of its chemical diversity gives us insight into the evolution of the Milky Way and the role of gas in the Galactic…

We develop a self-consistent model of turbulence in a local interstellar medium (ISM). The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid ISM in which a neutral hydrogen fluid interacts with a plasma dominantly through a charge exchange.…

Space Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Dastgeer Shaikh

Observations show that the global deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio (D/H) in the local interstellar medium (ISM) is about 90% of the primordial ratio predicted by big bang nucleosynthesis. The high (D/H)$_{ISM}$ implies that only a small fraction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-15 David H. Weinberg

We develop a model of dust evolution in a multiphase, inhomogeneous ISM including dust growth and destruction processes. The physical conditions for grain evolution are taken from hydrodynamical simulations of giant molecular clouds in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Svitlana Zhukovska , Clare Dobbs , Edward B. Jenkins , Ralf Klessen

An important aspect of quenching star formation is the removal of the cold interstellar medium (ISM; non-ionised gas and dust) from a galaxy. In addition, dust grains can be destroyed in a hot or turbulent medium. The adopted timescale of…

The increasing detection of new molecules in the interstellar medium (ISM) shows that stereoisomerism is a fundamental contributor to interstellar molecular complexity. This work presents the first comprehensive overview of interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-27 Víctor M. Rivilla , Miguel Sanz-Novo , David San Andrés

Aims. Observations show nebulae around some massive stars but not around others. If observed, their chemical composition is far from homogeneous. Our goal is to put these observational features into the context of the evolution of massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cyril Georgy , Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Andrei Bykov , Alexandre Marcowith , Jean M. Favre

It is shown that a number of key observations of the Galactic ISM can be understood, if it is treated as a highly compressible and turbulent medium energized predominantly by supernova explosions (and stellar winds). We have performed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dieter Breitschwerdt , Miguel A. de Avillez

We present a three-year series of observations at 24 microns with the Spitzer Space Telescope of the interstellar material in a 200 x 200 arcmin square area centered on Cassiopeia A. Interstellar dust heated by the outward light pulse from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yeunjin Kim , G. H. Rieke , O. Krause , K. Misselt , R. Indebetouw , K. E. Johnson

(abridged) The far-UV wavelength range (912-2000A) provides access to atomic and molecular transitions of many species the interstellar medium (ISM), circumgalactic medium (CGM), and intergalactic medium, within phases spanning a wide range…

We study gas mixing in a simulated Milky Way-mass galaxy's circumgalactic medium (CGM) using cosmological `zoom-in' simulations. We insert tracer dyes in the CGM with different gas flows (shearing, coherent, and static) and diverse physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 Hilay Shah , Freeke van de Voort , Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

The 12C/13C isotope ratio in the interstellar medium (ISM), and its evolution with time, is an important tracer of stellar yields. Spatial variations of this ratio can be used to study mixing in the ISM. We want to determine this ratio and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Stahl , S. Casassus , T. L. Wilson

The interstellar medium (ISM) has a multiphase structure characterized by gas, dust and molecules. The gas can be found in different charge states: neutral, low-ionized (warm) and high-ionized (hot). It is possible to probe the multiphase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-19 C. Pinto , J. S. Kaastra , E. Costantini , F. Verbunt

We model the complex distribution of atomic hydrogen (HI) in the interstellar medium (ISM) assuming that it is driven entirely by supernovae (SN). We develop and assess two different models. In the first approach, the simulated volume is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacqueline A. Hodge , Avinash A. Deshpande

We simulate the multi-phase interstellar medium randomly heated and stirred by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters of the solar neighbourhood. Here we describe in detail both numerical and physical aspects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-03 F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , G. R. Sarson , M. J. Mantere

Dust destruction by supernovae is one of the main processes removing dust from the interstellar medium (ISM). Estimates of the efficiency of this process, both theoretical and observational, typically assume a shock propagating into a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 F. D. Priestley , H. Chawner , M. Matsuura , I. De Looze , M. J. Barlow , H. L. Gomez