Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts

A Dekel, KC Sarkar, Y Birnboim… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations indicate a surprising excess of luminous galaxies at z∼ 10
and above, consistent with efficient conversion of the accreted gas into stars, unlike the …

The cosmological simulation code gadget-2

V Springel - Monthly notices of the royal astronomical society, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We discuss the cosmological simulation code gadget-2, a new massively parallel TreeSPH
code, capable of following a collisionless fluid with the N-body method, and an ideal gas by …

Control of star formation by supersonic turbulence

MM Mac Low, RS Klessen - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Understanding the formation of stars in galaxies is central to much of modern astrophysics.
However, a quantitative prediction of the star formation rate and the initial distribution of …

Galactic winds

S Veilleux, G Cecil… - Annu. Rev. Astron …, 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Galactic winds are the primary mechanism by which energy and metals are
recycled in galaxies and are deposited into the intergalactic medium. New observations are …

Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and galaxy clusters: A pedagogical introduction and a topical review of the acceleration, transport, observables, and dynamical …

M Ruszkowski, C Pfrommer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023 - Springer
Understanding the physical mechanisms that control galaxy formation is a fundamental
challenge in contemporary astrophysics. Recent advances in the field of astrophysical …

On the maximum luminosity of galaxies and their central black holes: feedback from momentum-driven winds

N Murray, E Quataert, TA Thompson - The Astrophysical Journal, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate large-scale galactic winds driven by momentum deposition. Momentum
injection is provided by (1) radiation pressure produced by the continuum absorption and …

Cool outflows in galaxies and their implications

S Veilleux, R Maiolino, AD Bolatto, S Aalto - The Astronomy and …, 2020 - Springer
Neutral-atomic and molecular outflows are a common occurrence in galaxies, near and far.
They operate over the full extent of their galaxy hosts, from the innermost regions of galactic …

The structure of multiphase galactic winds

DB Fielding, GL Bryan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a novel analytic framework to model the steady-state structure of multiphase
galactic winds comprised of a hot, volume-filling component and a cold, clumpy component …