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We present a study of a star formation prescription in which star formation efficiency depends on local gas density and turbulent velocity dispersion, as suggested by direct simulations of SF in turbulent giant molecular clouds (GMCs). We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-22 Vadim A. Semenov , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Feedback from star formation is thought to play a key role in the formation and evolution of galaxies, but its implementation in cosmological simulations is currently hampered by a lack of numerical resolution. We present and test a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-29 Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Joop Schaye

We develop a model for the distribution of the ISM and star formation in galaxies based on recent studies that indicate that galactic disks stabilise to a constant stability parameter, which we combine with prescriptions of how the phases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-21 Zheng Zheng , Gerhardt Meurer , Timothy Heckman , David Thilker , Martin Zwaan

We investigate the star formation-feedback cycle in cosmological galaxy formation simulations, focusing on progenitors of Milky Way (MW)-sized galaxies. We find that in order to reproduce key properties of the MW progenitors, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Oscar Agertz , Andrey V. Kravtsov

What exactly controls star formation in the Galaxy remains controversial. In particular, the role of feedback and magnetic field are still partially understood. We investigate the role played by supernovae feedback and magnetic field onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Patrick Hennebelle , Olivier Iffrig

We present a subgrid-scale model for the Multi-phase Interstellar medium, Star formation, and Turbulence (MIST) and explore its behaviour in high-resolution large-eddy simulations of isolated disc galaxies. MIST follows the evolution of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Harald Braun , Wolfram Schmidt , Jens C. Niemeyer , Ann S. Almgren

We have developed a new scheme to treat a multiphase interstellar medium in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of galaxy formation. This scheme can represent a co-spatial mixture of cold and hot ISM components, and is formulated…

Using hydrodynamic simulations of disc-galaxy major mergers, we investigate the star formation history and remnant properties when various parametrizations of a simple stellar feedback model are implemented. The simulations include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-25 T. J. Cox , Patrik Jonsson , Joel R. Primack , Rachel S. Somerville

We reassess the applicability of the Toomre criterion in galactic disks and we study the local star formation law in 16 disk galaxies for which abundance gradients are published. The data we use consists of stellar light profiles, atomic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Boissier , N. Prantzos , A. Boselli , G. Gavazzi

We describe hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation in a Lambda cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology performed using a subresolution model for star formation and feedback in a multiphase interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 B. E. Robertson , N. Yoshida , V. Springel , L. Hernquist

We present a new simulation suite for the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM) in galactic disks using the TIGRESS-NCR framework. Distinctive aspects of our simulation suite are: (1) sophisticated and comprehensive numerical treatments of…

Using high-resolution simulations with explicit treatment of stellar feedback physics based on the FIRE (Feedback in Realistic Environments) project, we study how galaxy formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) are affected by magnetic…

Until recently, simulations that modeled entire galaxies were restricted to an isothermal or fixed 2- or 3-phase interstellar medium (ISM). This obscured the full role of the ISM in shaping the observed galactic-scale star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-28 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan , Jonathan C. Tan

We use numerical simulations of isolated galaxies to study the effects of stellar feedback on the formation and evolution of giant star-forming gas 'clumps' in high-redshift, gas-rich galaxies. Such galactic disks are unstable to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray , Eliot Quataert , Lars Hernquist

Feedback from supernovae is essential to understanding the self-regulation of star formation in galaxies. However, the efficacy of the process in a cosmological context remains unclear due to excessive radiative losses during the shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Taysun Kimm , Renyue Cen , Julien Devriendt , Yohan Dubois , Adrianne Slyz

We present a new particle code for modelling the evolution of galaxies. The code is based on a multi-phase description for the interstellar medium (ISM). We included star formation (SF), stellar feedback by massive stars and planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Harfst , Christian Theis , Gerhard Hensler

Most stars in the Galaxy are believed to be formed within star clusters from collapsing molecular clouds. However, the complete process of star formation, from the parent cloud to a gas-free star cluster, is still poorly understood. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-23 Elena Gavagnin , Andreas Bleuler , Joakim Rosdahl , Romain Teyssier

We develop a model for regulation of galactic star formation rates Sigma_SFR in disk galaxies, in which ISM heating by stellar UV plays a key role. By requiring simultaneous thermal and (vertical) dynamical equilibrium in the diffuse gas,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eve C. Ostriker , Christopher F. McKee , Adam K. Leroy

We present a multi-phase representation of the ISM in NB-TSPH simulations of galaxy formation and evolution with particular attention to the case of early-type galaxies. Cold gas clouds are described by the so-called sticky particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emiliano Merlin , Cesare Chiosi

We perform two dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations to study the positive active galactic nucleus feedback which triggers, rather than suppresses, star formation. Recently, it was shown by Nayakshin et al. and Ishibashi et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Chao Liu , Zhao-ming Gan , Fu-guo Xie