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In this Letter, we argue that the standard analytical derivations of properties of HII regions, such as the speed, shape and asymptotic position of ionisation fronts require a more precise treatment. These derivations use the on the spot…

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I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

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The inner regions of protoplanetary disks are prone to thermal instability (TI), which can significantly impact the thermal and dynamic evolution of planet-forming regions. Observable as episodic accretion outbursts, such periodic…

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Star formation is intimately linked to the dynamical evolution of molecular clouds. Turbulent fragmentation determines where and when protostellar cores form, and how they contract and grow in mass via accretion from the surrounding cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Klessen

A systematic investigation on the evolution of a prolate cloud at an Hii boundary is conducted using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in order to understand the mechanism for a variety of irregular morphological structures found at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. M. Kinnear , J. Miao , G. J. White , K. Sugitani , S. Goodwin

Absorption-line measurements of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) display a highly non-uniform distribution of lower ionization state species accompanied by more widespread higher ionization state material. This suggests that the CGM is a…

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Turbulence plays an important role in shaping the interstellar medium, and strongly influences star formation. We aim to identify the physical processes capable of sustaining HI turbulence in the solar neighborhood. We compare recent HI…

We study the dynamics of phase transitions in the interstellar medium by means of three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations. We use a realistic cooling function and generic nonequilibrium initial conditions to follow the…

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The internal dust attenuation of the Hii region reduces the observed emission-line fluxes. Turbulent density fields within each Hii region change the degree of the line-of-the-sight obscuration of the emission-line fluxes. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Yifei Jin , Yong Shi , Ralph Sutherland , Ziyu Huang , Chuanfei Dong

Turbulent diffuse molecular clouds can exhibit complicated morphologies caused by the interactions among radiation, chemistry, fluids, and fields. We performed full 3D simulations for turbulent diffuse molecular interstellar media,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Nannan Yue , Lile Wang , Thomas Bisbas , Donghui Quan , Di Li

We review recent results from numerical simulations and related models of MHD turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) and in molecular clouds. We discuss the implications of turbulence for the processes of cloud formation and evolution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , E. C. Ostriker , T. Passot , C. F. Gammie , J. M. Stone

We use numerical simulations of turbulent cluster-forming regions to study the nature of dense filamentary structures in star formation. Using four hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations chosen to match observations, we identify…

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We study turbulent dissipation in the ISM and explore some implications for galaxy formation and evolution using 2D MHD numerical simulations of compressible fluids. The turbulent kinetic energy E_k is injected by stellar sources formed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Avila-Reese , E. Vázquez-Semadeni

We use detailed numerical simulations of the coupled chemical, thermal and dynamical evolution of the gas in a turbulent molecular cloud to study the usefulness of the [CI] 609 micron and 370 micron fine structure emission lines as tracers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Milica Micic , Faviola Molina

We propose that a significant fraction of the ultracompact HII regions found in massive star-forming clouds are the result of the interaction of the wind and ionizing radiation from a young massive star with the clumpy molecular cloud gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. E. Dyson , R. J. R. Williams , M. P. Redman

We simulate the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in a universe dominated by a cosmological constant. We find that within a few Hubble times from the present epoch, the baryons will have two primary phases: one phase composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kentaro Nagamine , Abraham Loeb

We present numerical radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of cometary HII regions for a number of champagne flow and bowshock models. For the champagne flow models we study smooth density distributions with both steep and shallow gradients.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. J. Arthur , M. G. Hoare

The spatial morphology, spectral characteristics, and time variability of ultracompact H II regions provide strong constraints on the process of massive star formation. We have performed simulations of the gravitational collapse of rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-07-27 Thomas Peters , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Cornelis P. Dullemond

We investigate the formation and evolution of circumstellar disks in turbulent cloud cores until several 104 years after protostar formation using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations. The formation and evolution process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-27 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida