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most citedStar formation and molecular hydrogen in dwarf galaxies: a non-equilibrium view

159 citations · 1.4k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Survival is not Enough: Dust Sputtering, Growth, and H Formation in Galactic Winds

Chia-Yu Hu, Max Gronke

A substantial amount of dust is found in galactic halos extending far beyond the disks, the origin of which remains an open question. Closely linked and equally puzzling is the det…

astro-ph.GA2025

The GHOSDT Simulations: II. Missing H in Simulations of a Self-Regulated Interstellar Medium

Alon Gurman, Chia-Yu Hu, Michael Y. Grudic +2

Observations in the Galaxy and nearby spirals have established that the HI-to-H transition at solar metallicity occurs at gas weight of $P_{\rm DE}/k_B\approx 10^4 \ \rm K \ cm…

astro-ph.GA2024

The GHOSDT Simulations (Galaxy Hydrodynamical Simulations with Supernova-Driven Turbulence) -- I. Magnetic Support in Gas Rich Disks

Alon Gurman, Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Chia-Yu Hu +1

Galaxies at redshift display high star formation rates (SFRs) with elevated cold gas fractions and column densities. Simulating a self-regulated ISM in a hydrodynamical…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

[CII] Emission in a Self-Regulated Interstellar Medium

Alon Gurman, Chia-Yu Hu, Amiel Sternberg +1

The [CII] 157.74 m fine structure transition is one of the brightest and most well-studied emission lines in the far-infrared (FIR), produced in the interstellar medium (ISM) of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Cosmic Sands II: Challenges in Predicting and Measuring High-z Dust Temperatures

Sidney Lower, Desika Narayanan, Chia-Yu Hu +1

In the current era of high-z galaxy discovery with JWST and ALMA, our ability to study the stellar populations and ISM conditions in a diverse range of galaxies at Cosmic Dawn has…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 24 cited

A Framework for Modeling Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Galaxy Evolution Simulations

Desika Narayanan, J. D. Smith, Brandon Hensley +7

We present a new methodology for simulating mid-infrared emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in galaxy evolution simulations. To do this, we combine theoretical m…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 34 cited

Arkenstone I: A Novel Method for Robustly Capturing High Specific Energy Outflows In Cosmological Simulations

Matthew C. Smith, Drummond B. Fielding, Greg L. Bryan +11

Arkenstone is a new model for multiphase, stellar feedback driven galactic winds designed for inclusion in coarse resolution cosmological simulations. In this first paper of a seri…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 24 cited

Co-evolution of Dust and Chemistry in Galaxy Simulations with a Resolved Interstellar Medium

Chia-Yu Hu, Amiel Sternberg, Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Nearby dwarf irregular galaxies are ideal laboratories for studying the interstellar medium (ISM) at low metallicity, which is expected to be common for galaxies at very high redsh…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 29 cited

PDFchem: A new fast method to determine ISM properties and infer environmental parameters using probability distributions

Thomas G. Bisbas, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Chia-Yu Hu +1

Determining the atomic and molecular content of the interstellar medium (ISM) as a function of environmental parameters is of fundamental importance to understand the star-formatio…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

Formation of star clusters and enrichment by massive stars in simulations of low-metallicity galaxies with a fully sampled initial stellar mass function

Natalia Lahén, Thorsten Naab, Guinevere Kauffmann +6

We present new GRIFFIN project hydrodynamical simulations that model the formation of galactic star cluster populations in low-metallicity () dwarf galaxies, including r…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 37 cited

Code Comparison in Galaxy Scale Simulations with Resolved Supernova Feedback: Lagrangian vs. Eulerian Methods

Chia-Yu Hu, Matthew C. Smith, Romain Teyssier +8

We present a suite of high-resolution simulations of an isolated dwarf galaxy using four different hydrodynamical codes: {\sc Gizmo}, {\sc Arepo}, {\sc Gadget}, and {\sc Ramses}. A…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

The origin of the [CII]-deficit in a simulated dwarf galaxies starburst

Thomas G. Bisbas, Stefanie Walch, Thorsten Naab +6

We present [CII] synthetic observations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of a dwarf galaxy merger. The merging process varies the star-formation rate by more th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 44 cited

Dependence of on metallicity, intensity, and spatial scale in a self-regulated interstellar medium

Chia-Yu Hu, Andreas Schruba, Amiel Sternberg +1

We study the CO(1-0)-to-H conversion factor () and the line ratio of CO(2-1)-to-CO(1-0) () across a wide range of metallicity ()…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 99 cited

Efficient early stellar feedback can suppress galactic outflows by reducing supernova clustering

Matthew C. Smith, Greg L. Bryan, Rachel S. Somerville +4

We present a novel set of stellar feedback models, implemented in the moving-mesh code Arepo, designed for galaxy formation simulations with near-parsec (or better) resolution. The…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 30 cited

Structure and rotation of young massive star clusters in a simulated dwarf starburst

Natalia Lahén, Thorsten Naab, Peter H. Johansson +3

We analyze the three-dimensional shapes and kinematics of the young star cluster population forming in a high-resolution GRIFFIN project simulation of a metal-poor dwarf galaxy sta…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 5 cited

A-priori Validation of Subgrid-scale Models for Astrophysical Turbulence

Chia-Yu Hu, Chi-Ting Chiang

We perform a-priori validation tests of subgrid-scale (SGS) models for the turbulent transport of momentum, energy and passive scalars. To this end, we conduct two sets of high-res…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 112 cited

The GRIFFIN project -- Formation of star clusters with individual massive stars in a simulated dwarf galaxy starburst

Natalia Lahén, Thorsten Naab, Peter H. Johansson +5

We describe a population of young star clusters (SCs) formed in a hydrodynamical simulation of a gas-rich dwarf galaxy merger resolved with individual massive stars at sub-parsec s…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 48 cited

Hot phase generation by supernovae: resolution, chemistry and thermal conduction

Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Benjamin P. Moster, Thorsten Naab +2

Supernovae (SN) generate hot gas in the interstellar medium (ISM), help setting the ISM structure and support the driving of outflows. It is important to resolve the hot gas genera…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 80 cited

The formation of low metallicity globular clusters in dwarf galaxy mergers

Natalia Lahén, Thorsten Naab, Peter H. Johansson +3

We present a hydro-dynamical simulation at sub-parsec and few solar mass resolution of a merger between two gas-rich dwarf galaxies. Our simulation includes a detailed model for th…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 66 cited

Thermal and nonthermal dust sputtering in hydrodynamical simulations of the multiphase interstellar medium

Chia-Yu Hu, Svitlana Zhukovska, Rachel S. Somerville +1

We study the destruction of interstellar dust via sputtering in supernova (SN) shocks using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. With a novel numerical framework, we follo…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 112 cited

Supernova-driven winds in simulated dwarf galaxies

Chia-Yu Hu

We investigate galactic winds driven by supernova (SN) explosions in an isolated dwarf galaxy using high-resolution (particle mass , number of neighbo…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 102 cited

An uncertainty principle for star formation - II. A new method for characterising the cloud-scale physics of star formation and feedback across cosmic history

J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Andreas Schruba, Alexander P. S. Hygate +3

The cloud-scale physics of star formation and feedback represent the main uncertainty in galaxy formation studies. Progress is hampered by the limited empirical constraints outside…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 129 cited

Variable interstellar radiation fields in simulated dwarf galaxies: supernovae versus photoelectric heating

Chia-Yu Hu, Thorsten Naab, Simon C. O. Glover +2

We present high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of isolated dwarf galaxies including self-gravity, non-equilibrium cooling and chemistry, interstellar radiation fields (IRSF)…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 37 cited

Modeling for Stellar Feedback in Galaxy Formation Simulations

Alejandro Núñez, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Thorsten Naab +3

Various heuristic approaches to model unresolved supernova (SN) feedback in galaxy formation simulations exist to reproduce the formation of spiral galaxies and the overall ineffic…