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We present three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the impact of stellar winds, photoelectric heating, photodissociating and photoionising radiation, and supernovae on the chemical composition and star formation in a…

Star formation from the interstellar medium of galactic disks is a basic process controlling the evolution of galaxies. Understanding the star formation rate in a local patch of a disk with a given gas mass is thus an important challenge…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Romain Teyssier , Joakim Rosdahl , Sven Van Loo , Sarah Nickerson

We introduce the LYRA project, a new high resolution galaxy formation model built within the framework of the cosmological hydro-dynamical moving mesh code AREPO. The model resolves the multi-phase interstellar medium down to 10 K. It forms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-26 Thales A. Gutcke , Rüdiger Pakmor , Thorsten Naab , Volker Springel

We study gravitational instability and consequent star formation in a wide range of isolated disk galaxies, using three-dimensional, smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations at resolution sufficient to fully resolve gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuexing Li , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen

For four well studied spiral galaxies (M33, M81, M100 and M101) we consider the dependencies of star formation rate (SFR) and star formation efficiency (SFE = SFR/M_{gas}) both on the radial distance R and on some kinematic parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zasov , O. V. Abramova

We use three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the quasi-equilibrium states of galactic disks regulated by star formation feedback. We incorporate effects from massive-star feedback via time-varying heating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Condensation of H 2 in the interstellar medium (ISM) has long been seen as a possibility, either by deposition on dust grains or thanks to a phase transition combined with self-gravity. H 2 condensation might explain the observed low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Andreas Füglistaler , Daniel Pfenniger

I review recent results from numerical simulations on the structure and dynamics of the ISM, and attempt to put together a coherent dynamical scenario. In particular, I discuss results on 1) the spatial distribution of the gas components,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

We present a detailed investigation of different approaches to modeling feedback in simulations of galaxy formation. Gas-dynamic forces are evaluated using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) while star formation and supernova feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

I present an overview of the hierarchy of structures existing in the interstellar medium (ISM) and the possible mechanisms that cause the fragmentation of one level into the next, with the formation of stars as its last step. Within this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

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

We explore the structure and statistics of multiphase, magnetized ISM turbulence in the local Milky Way by means of driven periodic box numerical MHD simulations. Using the higher order-accurate piecewise-parabolic method on a local stencil…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-19 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

We examine the pressure of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM) of Milky-Way sized disk galaxies using fully cosmological SPH+N-body, high resolution simulations. These simulations include explicit treatment of metal-line cooling in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ferah Munshi , Charlotte Christensen , Thomas R. Quinn , Fabio Governato , James Wadsley , Sarah Loebman , Sijing Shen

In this paper we show results of numerical simulations for the turbulence in the interstellar medium. These results were obtained using a Riemann solver-free numerical scheme for high-Mach number hyperbolic equations. Here we especially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Kissmann , J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , R. Grauer

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

The reservoir of molecular gas (H$_{\rm 2}$) represents the fuel for the star formation (SF) of a galaxy. Connecting the star formation rate (SFR) to the available H$_{\rm 2}$ is key to accurately model SF in cosmological simulations of…

Bursty star formation at early times can explain the surprising abundance of early UV-bright galaxies revealed by JWST but can also be a reason for the delayed formation of galactic disks in high-resolution cosmological simulations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-05 Vadim A. Semenov , Charlie Conroy , Lars Hernquist

We investigate the response of the star formation efficiency (SFE) to the main parameters of simulations of molecular cloud formation by the collision of warm diffuse medium (WNM) cylindrical streams, neglecting stellar feedback and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Yetli Rosas-Guevara , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Gilberto C. Gomez , A. -Katharina Jappsen

We present the results of a variety of simulations concerning the evolution of multiphase (inhomogeneous) hot interstellar medium (ISM) in elliptical galaxies. We assume the gases ejected from stars do not mix globally with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yutaka Fujita , Junji Fukumoto , Katsuya Okoshi