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We have performed time-dependent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) which account for galactic shear and magnetic fields, vertical gravity, and a radiative cooling function for atomic gas. This allows us to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

We investigate the interplay between the ionization radiation from massive stars and the turbulence inside the surrounding molecular gas thanks to 3D numerical simulations. We used the 3D hydrodynamical code HERACLES to model an initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Tremblin , E. Audit , V. Minier , W. Schmidt , N. Schneider

Despite the simplicity of theoretical models of supersonically turbulent, isothermal media, their predictions successfully match the observed gas structure and star formation activity within low-pressure (P/k < 10^5 K cm^-3) molecular…

Galactic HI is a gas that is coupled to magnetic field because of its fractional ionization. Many properties of HI are affected by turbulence. Recently, there has been a significant breakthrough on the theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Huirong Yan

The diffuse hot medium inside clusters of galaxies typically exhibits turbulent motions whose amplitude increases with radius, as revealed by cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. However, its physical origin remains unclear. It could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin Lau

The compressibility of molecular cloud (MC) turbulence plays a crucial role in star formation models, because it controls the amplitude and distribution of density fluctuations. The relation between the compressive ratio (the ratio of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-06 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbolle , Aake Nordlund

The solar wind is a magnetized and turbulent plasma. Its turbulence is often dominated by Alfv\'enic fluctuations and often deemed as nearly incompressible far away from the Sun, as shown by in-situ measurements near 1AU. However, for solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiangrong Fu , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Senbei Du , John Steinberg

Molecular clouds (MC) are the densest and coldest component of the interstellar gas, and the sites of star formation. They are also turbulent and fractal and their masses and sizes span several orders of magnitude. It is also generally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Javier Ballesteros-Paredes

We discuss a few recent developments that are important for understanding of MHD turbulence. First, MHD turbulence is not so messy as it is usually believed. In fact, the notion of strong non-linear coupling of compressible and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lazarian , J. Cho

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is responsive to kinetic disruptions generated by nearby astrophysical events. In this work, we study the saturation and dissipation of turbulent hydrodynamics within the CGM through an extensive array of 252…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 Alex Lv , Lile Wang , Renyue Cen , Luis C. Ho

Substellar atmospheres are observed to be irregularly variable for which the formation of dust clouds is the most promising candidate explanation. The atmospheric gas is convectively unstable and, last but not least, colliding convective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christiane Helling , Rupert Klein , Erwin Sedlmayr

We study the linear evolution of small perturbations in self-gravitating fluid systems with magnetic fields. We consider wave-like perturbations to nonuniform filamentary and sheet-like hydrostatic equilibria in the presence of a uniform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Curtis S. Gehman , Fred C. Adams , Richard Watkins

We discuss the likely sources of turbulence in the ISM and explicitly calculate the detailed grand source function for the conventional sources of turbulence from supernovae, superbubbles, stellar winds and HII regions. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Colin A. Norman , Andrea Ferrara

By resimulating a region of a global disc simulation at higher resolution, we resolve and study the properties of molecular clouds with a range of masses from a few 100's M$_{\odot}$ to $10^6$ M$_{\odot}$. The purpose of our paper is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Clare L. Dobbs

We summarize the current status of the turbulent model of star formation in turbulent molecular clouds. In this model, clouds, clumps and cores form a hierarchy of nested density fluctuations caused by the turbulence, and either collapse or…

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

A stochastic model of fragmentation of molecular clouds has been developed for studying the resulting Initial Mass Function (IMF) where the number of fragments, inter-occurrence time of fragmentation, masses and velocities of the fragments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-11 Suman Paul , Tanuka Chattopadhyay

We report results of a three dimensional, high resolution (up to 512^3) numerical investigation of supersonic compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We consider both forced and decaying turbulence. The model parameters are appropriate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James M. Stone , Eve C. Ostriker , Charles F. Gammie

High--resolution 2D--MHD numerical simulations have been carried out to investigate the effects of continuing infall of clumpy gas in extended HI galactic disks. Given a certain accretion rate, the response of the disk depends on its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Santillan , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , J. Franco

We use 3-dimensional numerical simulations of self-gravitating compressible turbulent gas in combination with Lagrangian tracer particles to investigate the mixing process of molecular hydrogen (H2) in interstellar clouds. Tracer particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 C Federrath , S C O Glover , R S Klessen , W Schmidt

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
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