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Transient microstructure in the diffuse interstellar medium has been observed towards galactic and extragalactic sources for decades, usually in lines of atoms and ions, and, more recently, in molecular lines. Evidently, there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Bell , S. Viti , D. A. Williams , I. A. Crawford , R. J. Price

While the evolution of superbubbles driven by clustered supernovae has been studied by numerous authors, the resulting radial momentum yield is uncertain by as much as an order of magnitude depending on the computational methods and assumed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-07 Eric S. Gentry , Mark R. Krumholz , Piero Madau , Alessandro Lupi

Interstellar shocks, a key element of stellar feedback processes, shape the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) and are essential for the chemistry, thermodynamics, and kinematics of interstellar gas. Powerful, high-velocity shocks…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Daniel R. Rybarczyk , Snezana Stanimirovic , Antoine Gusdorf

Aims. We study the effect of large scale dynamics on the molecular composition of the dense interstellar medium during the transition between diffuse to dense clouds. Methods. We followed the formation of dense clouds (on sub-parsec scales)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 M. Ruaud , V. Wakelam , P. Gratier , I. A. Bonnell

We use a suite of hydrodynamics simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) within a galactic disk, which include radiative transfer, a non-equilibrium model of molecular hydrogen, and a realistic model for star formation and feedback, to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-07 Ava Polzin , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Vadim A. Semenov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We present models of turbulent mixing at the boundaries between hot (T~10^{6-7} K) and warm material (T~10^4 K) in the interstellar medium, using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical code, with radiative cooling. The source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Esquivel , R. A. Benjamin , A. Lazarian , J. Cho , S. N. Leitner

Observational evidence seems to indicate that the depletion of interstellar carbon into dust shows rather wide variations and that carbon undergoes rather rapid recycling in the interstellar medium (ISM). Small hydrocarbon grains are…

We present a novel framework to self-consistently model the effects of radiation fields, dust physics and molecular chemistry (H$_2$) in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The model combines a state-of-the-art radiation…

The large-scale gradient of the interstellar medium (ISM) density distribution essentially affects the evolution of Supernova remnants (SNRs). In a non-uniform ISM, the shape of SNR becomes essentially non-spherical, and distributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 B. Hnatyk , O. Petruk

We investigate the evolution of the metallicity of the intergalactic medium (IGM) with particular emphasis on its spatial distribution. We propose that metal enrichment occurs as a two step process. First, supernova (SN) explosions eject…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrea Ferrara , Max Pettini , Yuri Shchekinov

We investigate shattering and coagulation of dust grains in turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). The typical velocity of dust grain as a function of grain size has been calculated for various ISM phases based on a theory of grain dynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Huirong Yan

The interplay between the ISM and the massive stars formed in clusters and, more generally, in recent events of star formation is reviewed via the global effects each has on the other. The pre-existing environment affects the properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Calzetti , C. A. Tremonti , T. M. Heckman , C. Leitherer

AIMS. In this work we explore the possibility of using the fast expansion of a Type Ia supernova photosphere to detect extra-galactic ISM column density variations on spatial scales of ~100 AU on time scales of a few months. METHODS. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Patat , N. L. J. Cox , J. Parrent , D. Branch

We use the Adaptive Mesh Refinement code Enzo to model the interstellar medium in isolated local disk galaxies. The simulation includes a treatment for star formation and stellar feedback. We get a highly supersonic turbulent disk, which is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 Fernando Becerra , Andres Escala

The size distribution of supernova remnants (SNRs) can help to clarify the various aspects of their evolution and interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM). Since the observed samples of SNRs are a collection of objects with very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Abdul I. Asvarov

We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover a wide range of scales (from kpc to sub-parsec), the dimension of the most dissipative structures and the injection scale of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

We explore the effect of magnetic fields on the vertical distribution and multiphase structure of the supernova-driven interstellar medium (ISM) in simulations that admit dynamo action. As the magnetic field is amplified to become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-26 C. C. Evirgen , F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , P. J. Bushby

The interstellar medium (ISM) has a number of tracers such as the Na I D 5890, 5896 AA absorption lines that are evident in the spectra of galaxies but also in those of individual astrophysical sources such as stars, novae or quasars. Here,…

We discuss the time evolution of dust-to-gas mass ratio in the context of multi-phase model of interstellar medium. Phase transition of interstellar gas is considered to occur on a timescale of $10^{7--8}$ yr, according to a nonlinear open…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Hirashita