activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Gauging the Impact of Cosmic Ray Feedback on the Stellar Initial Mass Function

Margot Fitz Axen, Stella S. R. Offner, Philip F. Hopkins +1

Cosmic rays (CRs) drive ionization and influence gas dynamics in molecular clouds (MCs), potentially impacting the resulting star formation outcomes. Although previous simulations…

astro-ph.GA2026

Connection between galaxy morphology and dark-matter halo structure II: predicting disk structure from dark-matter halo properties

Jinning Liang, Fangzhou Jiang, Houjun Mo +4

We investigate how galactic disk structures connect to the detailed properties of their host dark-matter halos using the TNG50 simulation. From the hydrodynamic and matched dark-ma…

astro-ph.GA2025

Connection between galaxy morphology and dark-matter halo structure I: a running threshold for thin discs and size predictors from the dark sector

Jinning Liang, Fangzhou Jiang, Houjun Mo +5

We study the connection between galaxy morphology and host dark matter (DM) halo structure using cosmological simulations. Introducing a new kinematic decomposition scheme, we robu…

astro-ph.GA2024

Bridging Scales: Coupling the galactic nucleus to the larger cosmic environment

Kung-Yi Su, Priyamvada Natarajan, Hyerin Cho +4

Coupling black hole (BH) feeding and feedback involves interactions across vast spatial and temporal scales that is computationally challenging. Tracking gas inflows and outflows f…

astro-ph.GA2024

Suppressed Cosmic Ray Energy Densities in Molecular Clouds From Streaming Instability-Regulated Transport

Margot Fitz Axen, Stella Offner, Phillip F. Hopkins +2

Cosmic rays (CRs) are the primary driver of ionization in star forming molecular clouds (MCs). Despite their potential impacts on gas dynamics and chemistry, no simulations of star…