no code implementations • 28 Sep 2020 • Ancla Müller, Bianca Poggianti, Christoph Pfrommer, Björn Adebahr, Paolo Serra, Alessandro Ignesti, Martin Sparre, Myriam Gitti, Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar, Benedetta Vulcani, Alessia Moretti
Jellyfish galaxies have long tails of gas that is stripped from the disc by ram pressure due to the motion of galaxies in the intracluster medium in galaxy clusters.
Astrophysics of Galaxies
1 code implementation • 30 Jun 2020 • Thomas Berlok, Eliot Quataert, Martin E. Pessah, Christoph Pfrommer
We study plane-parallel, initially static atmospheres and employ a subgrid model that mimics the influence of the mirror instability on the heat conductivity.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Plasma Physics
1 code implementation • 4 Feb 2019 • Thomas Berlok, Christoph Pfrommer
In this paper we derive a linear theory for the KHI with smooth profiles and illustrate code testing with the MHD code Athena.
Astrophysics of Galaxies Computational Physics