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(abridged) We use large cosmological simulations to study the origin of primordial star-forming clouds in a Lambda CDM universe, by following the formation of dark matter halos and the cooling of gas within them. To model the physics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Naoki Yoshida , Tom Abel , Lars Hernquist , Naoshi Sugiyama

We study effect of magnetic field on massive dense core formation in colliding unequal molecular clouds by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations with sub-parsec resolution (0.015 pc) that can resolve the molecular cores. Initial clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto

We examine the formation of molecular gas behind shocks in atomic gas using a chemical/dynamical model, particular emphasis is given to constraints the chemistry places on the dynamical evolution. The most important result of this study is…

We investigate chemistry in the compression layer behind the interstellar shock waves, where molecular cloud formation starts. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations of converging flows of atomic gas with shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Yuto Komichi , Yuri Aikawa , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kenji Furuya

We perform two-dimensional and three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations to study cold clouds accelerated by radiation pressure on dust in the environment of rapidly star-forming galaxies dominated by infrared flux. We utilize…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Dong Zhang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , James M. Stone

The interstellar medium of the radio galaxy IC 5063 is highly perturbed by an AGN jet expanding in the gaseous disc of the galaxy. We model this interaction with relativistic hydrodynamic simulations and multiphase initial conditions for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Alex Y. Wagner , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Raffaella Morganti , Tom Oosterloo , Nicole Nesvadba , Ralph S. Sutherland

We investigate giant molecular cloud (GMCs) collisions and their ability to induce gravitational instability and thus star formation. This mechanism may be a major driver of star formation activity in galactic disks. We carry out a series…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Fumitaka Nakamura , Sven Van Loo , Duncan Christie , David Collins

Radiative processes play a pivotal role in shaping the thermal and chemical states of gas across diverse astrophysical environments, from the interstellar medium (ISM) to the intergalactic medium. We present a hybrid cooling model for…

We present the results of a series of calculations studying the collapse of molecular cloud cores performed using a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydr odynamics code with radiative transfer in the flux-limited diffusion approximation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stuart C. Whitehouse , Matthew R. Bate

Using numerical techniques we studied the global stability of cooling flows in giant elliptical galaxies. As an initial equilibrium state we choose the hydrostatic gas recycling model (Kritsuk 1996). Non-equilibrium radiative cooling,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Kritsuk , H. Boehringer , E. Mueller

We report on a study of the high-mass star formation in the the HII region W28A2 by investigating the molecular clouds extended over ~5-10 pc from the exciting stars using the 12CO and 13CO (J=1-0) and 12CO (J=2-1) data taken by the NANTEN2…

Using self-gravitational hydrodynamical numerical simulations, we investigated the evolution of high-density turbulent molecular clouds swept by a colliding flow. The interaction of shock waves due to turbulence produces networks of thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kazuhito Dobashi , Tomomi Shimoikura

Many questions in physical cosmology regarding the thermal history of the intergalactic medium, chemical enrichment, reionization, etc. are thought to be intimately related to the nature and evolution of pregalactic structure. In particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tom Abel , Greg L. Bryan , Michael L. Norman

Massive stars (mass beyond 8 solMass) release vast amounts of energy into the interstellar medium through their stellar winds, photoionising radiation and supernova explosions. These processes may compress nearby regions, triggering further…

Different from Milky-Way-like galaxies, discs of gas-rich galaxies are clumpy. It is believed that the clumps form because of gravitational instability. However, a necessary condition for gravitational instability to develop is that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Guang-Xing Li

Stars form within dense cores composed of both gas and dust within molecular clouds. However, despite the crucial role that dust plays in the star formation process, its dynamics is frequently overlooked, with the common assumption being a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-21 Nadine H. Soliman , Philip F. Hopkins , Michael Y. Grudić

The effect of smooth cloud boundaries on the interaction of steady planar shock waves with interstellar clouds is studied using a high-resolution local AMR technique with a second-order accurate axisymmetric Godunov hydrodynamic scheme. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher

The effects of the UV background radiation on the formation of sub-galactic clouds are studied by means of one-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. The radiative transfer of the ionizing photons due to the absorption by HI, HeI and HeII,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsu Kitayama , Satoru Ikeuchi

We investigate the propagation of a shock wave into a warm neutral medium and cold neutral medium by one-dimensional hydrodynamic calculations with detailed treatment of thermal and chemical processes. Our main result shows that thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroshi Koyama , Shu-Ichiro Inutsuka

The first stars, galaxies, star clusters, and direct-collapse black holes are expected to have formed in low-mass ($\sim$$10^{5}-10^{9} ~ M_{\odot}$) haloes at Cosmic Dawn ($z \sim 10 - 30$) under conditions of efficient gas cooling,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Olof Nebrin , Sambit K. Giri , Garrelt Mellema