Search Results - "Burkhart, Blakesley"
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The Star Formation Rate in the Gravoturbulent Interstellar Medium
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2018)“…Stars form in supersonic turbulent molecular clouds that are self-gravitating. We present an analytic determination of the star formation rate (SFR) in a…”
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Diagnosing Turbulence in the Neutral and Molecular Interstellar Medium of Galaxies
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-10-2021)“…Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a crucial component of the current paradigms of star formation, dynamo theory, particle transport, magnetic…”
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The H i-to-H2 Transition in a Turbulent Medium
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2017)“…We study the effect of density fluctuations induced by turbulence on the H i/H2 structure in photodissociation regions (PDRs) both analytically and…”
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Moving-mesh Simulations of Star-forming Cores in Magneto-gravo-turbulence
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-03-2017)“…Star formation in our Galaxy occurs in molecular clouds that are self-gravitating, highly turbulent, and magnetized. We study the conditions under which cloud…”
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Is turbulence in the interstellar medium driven by feedback or gravity? An observational test
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Massive-star Formation via the Collapse of Subvirial and Virialized Turbulent Massive Cores
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-2019)“…Similar to their low-mass counterparts, massive stars likely form via the collapse of prestellar molecular cores. Recent observations suggest that most massive…”
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Bursting Bubbles: Feedback from Clustered Supernovae and the Trade-off Between Turbulence and Outflows
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2022)“…Abstract We present an analytic model for clustered supernovae (SNe) feedback in galaxy disks, incorporating the dynamical evolution of superbubbles formed…”
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Extending a Physics-informed Machine-learning Network for Superresolution Studies of Rayleigh–Bénard Convection
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2024)“…Abstract Advancing our understanding of astrophysical turbulence is bottlenecked by the limited resolution of numerical simulations that may not fully sample…”
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Spatially resolved star formation and inside-out quenching in the TNG50 simulation and 3D-HST observations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2021)“…ABSTRACT We compare the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) of galaxies – both integrated and resolved on 1 kpc scales – between the high-resolution TNG50…”
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Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Starburst Galaxy Mergers
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2023)“…Abstract We employ the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) physics model to study how the properties of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) evolve during…”
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Multi-phase Turbulence Density Power Spectra in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2018)“…We derive two-dimensional spatial power spectra of four distinct interstellar medium tracers, H i, 12CO(J = 1-0), 13CO(J = 1-0), and dust, in the Perseus…”
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HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE IN POSITION-POSITION-VELOCITY SPACE
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-06-2013)“…Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is able to create hierarchical structures in the interstellar medium (ISM) that are correlated on a wide range of scales via the…”
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Gas Accretion Can Drive Turbulence in Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2023)“…Abstract The driving of turbulence in galaxies is deeply connected with the physics of feedback, star formation, outflows, accretion, and radial transport in…”
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PROPERTIES OF INTERSTELLAR TURBULENCE FROM GRADIENTS OF LINEAR POLARIZATION MAPS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-04-2012)“…Faraday rotation of linearly polarized radio signals provides a very sensitive probe of fluctuations in the interstellar magnetic field and ionized gas density…”
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Bursting Bubbles: Clustered Supernova Feedback in Local and High-redshift Galaxies
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-01-2022)“…Abstract We compare an analytic model for the evolution of supernova-driven superbubbles with observations of local and high-redshift galaxies, and the…”
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The Interplay between the Initial Mass Function and Star Formation Efficiency through Radiative Feedback at High Stellar Surface Densities
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-06-2024)“…Abstract The observed rest-UV luminosity function at cosmic dawn ( z ∼ 8–14) measured by JWST revealed an excess of UV-luminous galaxies relative to many…”
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What Sets the Star Formation Rate of Molecular Clouds? The Density Distribution as a Fingerprint of Compression and Expansion Rates
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2023)“…Abstract We use a suite of 3D simulations of star-forming molecular clouds, with and without stellar feedback, magnetic fields, and driven turbulence, to study…”
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An Exploration of AGN and Stellar Feedback Effects in the Intergalactic Medium via the Low-redshift Lyα Forest
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract We explore the role of galactic feedback on the low-redshift Ly α (Ly α ) forest ( z ≲ 2) statistics and its potential to alter the thermal state of…”
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Objects May Be Closer than They Appear: Significant Host Galaxy Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts in Zoom-in Simulations
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-09-2024)“…Abstract We investigate the contribution of host galaxies to the overall dispersion measures (DMs) for fast radio bursts (FRBs) using the Feedback in Realistic…”
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Turbulence and Energetic Particles in Radiative Shock Waves in the Cygnus Loop. I. Shock Properties
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2020)“…We have obtained a contiguous set of long-slit spectra of a shock wave in the Cygnus Loop to investigate its structure, which is far from the morphology…”
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