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This paper presents first results on the line profile shapes from a circumstellar envelope in bulk motion as modified by a microlensing event. Only geometrically and optically thin spherical shells in uniform expansion or rotation are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ignace , M. A. Hendry

We present a phenomenological model of the dynamics of buoyant bubbles in the atmosphere of a cluster of galaxies. The derived equations describe velocity, size, mass, temperature and density of the buoyant bubbles as functions of time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-13 Georgi Pavlovski , Christian R. Kaiser , Edward C. D. Pope

Pulsar wind nebulae are fascinating systems, and archetypal sources for high-energy astrophysics in general. Due to their vicinity, brightness, to the fact that they shine at multi-wavelengths, and especially to their long-living emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Barbara Olmi , Niccolò Bucciantini

Winds are ubiquitous in galaxies and often feature bubble structures. These wind bubbles are characterized by an external forward shock expanding in the surrounding medium and a wind termination shock separating the cool and fast wind from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-13 Enrico Peretti

The LCDM cosmological model assumes the existence of a small cosmological constant in order to explain the observed accelerating cosmic expansion. Despite the dramatic improvement of the quality of cosmological data during the last decade…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Perivolaropoulos

We present 12CO(1->0) observations of 45 giant molecular clouds in M33 made with the BIMA array. The observations have a linear resolution of 20 pc, sufficient to measure the sizes of most GMCs in the sample. We place upper limits on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erik Rosolowsky , Greg Engargiola , Richard Plambeck , Leo Blitz

In previous contributions, we have presented an analytical model describing the evolution of molecular clouds (MCs) undergoing hierarchical gravitational contraction. The cloud's evolution is characterized by an initial increase in its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-18 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Avilés , Roberto Galván-Madrid , Jan Forbrich

A test case comparison is presented for different dust cloud model approaches applied in brown dwarfs and giant gas planets. We aim to achieve more transparency in evaluating the uncertainty inherent to theoretical modelling. We show in how…

Clustered stellar feedback creates expanding voids in the magnetized interstellar medium known as superbubbles. Although theory suggests that superbubble expansion is influenced by interstellar magnetic fields, direct observational data on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-05 Theo J. O'Neill , Alyssa A. Goodman , Juan D. Soler , Catherine Zucker , Jiwon Jesse Han

Understanding of cloud microphysics and the evolution of cloud structures in sub-stellar atmospheres remains a key challenge in the JWST era. The abundance of new JWST data necessitates models that are suitable for coupling with large-scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Elspeth K. H. Lee , Kazumasa Ohno

We study the linear evolution of small perturbations in self-gravitating fluid systems in two spatial dimensions; we consider both cylindrical and cartesian (i.e., slab) geometries. The treatment is general, but the application is to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Curtis S. Gehman , Fred C. Adams , Marco Fatuzzo , Richard Watkins

The evolutionary behavior and multi-wavelength emission properties of bubbles around galaxies, such as the \textit{Fermi} bubbles of the Milky Way, is unsettled. We perform 3D magnetohydrodynamical simulations to investigate the evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Ellis R. Owen , H. -Y. Karen Yang

Numerous spherical ``shells" have been observed in young star-forming environments that host low- and intermediate-mass stars. These observations suggest that these shells may be produced by isotropic stellar wind feedback from young…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Anna L. Rosen , Stella S. R. Offner , Michael M. Foley , Laura A. Lopez

There is a long-standing controversy about the convergence of the dipole moment of the galaxy angular distribution (the so-called clustering dipole). We study the growth of the clustering dipole of galaxies as a function of the limiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Maciej Bilicki , Michał Chodorowski , Thomas Jarrett , Gary A. Mamon

We study the dynamics of a cosmological bubble wall beyond the approximation of an infinitely thin wall. In a previous paper, we discussed the range of validity of this approximation and estimated the first-order corrections due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Ariel Mégevand , Federico Agustín Membiela

Convection and turbulence in stellar atmospheres have a significant effect on the emergent flux from late-type stars. The theoretical advancements in convection modelling over recent years have proved challenging for the observers to obtain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Barry Smalley

We present an idealized, semi-empirical model for the evolution of gravitationally contracting molecular clouds (MCs) and their star formation rate (SFR) and efficiency (SFE). The model assumes that the instantaneous SFR is given by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Zamora-Aviles , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Pedro Colín

High-velocity atomic clouds in the Galactic center have attracted significant attention due to their enigmatic formation process, which is potentially linked to the starburst or supermassive black hole activities in the region. Further, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Mengfei Zhang , Miao Li

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

We present direct evidence that magnetic clouds (MCs) have highly flattened and curved cross section resulting from their interaction with the ambient solar wind. Lower limits on the transverse size are obtained for three MCs observed by…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Liu , J. D. Richardson , J. W. Belcher , C. Wang , Q. Hu , J. C. Kasper