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Accretion Disk Winds from Active Galactic Nuclei
- N. Murray, J. Chiang, S. Grossman, G. Voit
- Physics
- 1 October 1995
Star Formation Efficiencies and Lifetimes of Giant Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way
- N. Murray
- Physics
- 19 July 2010
We use a sample of the 13 most luminous WMAP Galactic free-free sources, responsible for 33% of the free-free emission of the Milky Way, to investigate star formation. The sample contains 40… Expand
Atmospheric Escape From Hot Jupiters
- R. Murray-Clay, E. Chiang, N. Murray
- Physics
- 3 November 2008
Photoionization heating from ultraviolet (UV) radiation incidents on the atmospheres of hot Jupiters may drive planetary mass loss. Observations of stellar Lyman-α (Lyα) absorption have suggested… Expand
ON THE MAXIMUM LUMINOSITY OF GALAXIES AND THEIR CENTRAL BLACK HOLES: FEEDBACK FROM MOMENTUM-DRIVEN WINDS
- N. Murray, E. Quataert, T. Thompson
- Physics
- 2 June 2004
We investigate large-scale galactic winds driven by momentum deposition. Momentum injection is provided by (1) radiation pressure produced by the continuum absorption and scattering of photons on… Expand
Gusty, gaseous flows of FIRE: Galactic winds in cosmological simulations with explicit stellar feedback
- A. Muratov, D. Kereš, C. Faucher-Giguere, P. Hopkins, E. Quataert, N. Murray
- Physics
- 13 January 2015
We present an analysis of the galaxy-scale gaseous outflows from the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE) simulations. This suite of hydrodynamic cosmological zoom simulations resolves formation… Expand
Variations in the Galactic star formation rate and density thresholds for star formation
- S. Longmore, J. Bally, +11 authors D. Kruijssen
- Physics
- 21 August 2012
The conversion of gas into stars is a fundamental process in astrophysics and cosmology. Stars are known to form from the gravitational collapse of dense clumps in interstellar molecular clouds, and… Expand
Magnetic Fields in Starburst Galaxies and the Origin of the FIR-Radio Correlation
- T. Thompson, E. Quataert, E. Waxman, N. Murray, C. Martin
- Physics
- 26 January 2006
We estimate minimum energy magnetic fields (Bmin) for a sample of galaxies with measured gas surface densities, spanning more than four orders of magnitude in surface density, from normal spirals to… Expand
Compact high-redshift galaxies are the cores of the most massive present-day spheroids
- P. Hopkins, K. Bundy, +5 authors Noao
- Physics
- 13 March 2009
Observations suggest that the effective radii of high-redshift massive spheroids are as much as a factor of ~6 smaller than low-redshift galaxies of comparable mass. Given the apparent absence of… Expand
Stellar Feedback in Galaxies and the Origin of Galaxy-scale Winds
- P. Hopkins, E. Quataert, N. Murray
- Physics
- 20 October 2011
Feedback from massive stars is believed to play a critical role in driving galactic superwinds that enrich the intergalactic medium and shape the galaxy mass function, massmetallicity relation, and… Expand
The Disruption of Giant Molecular Clouds by Radiation Pressure & the Efficiency of Star Formation in Galaxies
- N. Murray, E. Quataert, T. A. Thompson
- Physics
- 29 June 2009
Star formation is slow in the sense that the gas consumption time is much longer than the dynamical time. It is also inefficient; star formation in local galaxies takes place in giant molecular… Expand