Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the universe. They are mostly made of dark matter, inducing a deep gravitational potential well, in which baryons are accreted from the cosmic web and heated up to millions of Kelvins, we call it the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM). Lots of complex and linked physics processes happen in the ICM, one of them is turbulence. In...
Recent JWST observations have revealed superbubbles (SBs)—cavity-shell structures distributed across the galactic disk—formed by successive supernova explosions. The potential fluctuations generated by SBs can dynamically heat galactic systems. Using the orbit-averaged Fokker-Planck equation, we investigate the role of SB-driven stochastic heating in the context of cusp-core transformation....
The timing argument (TA) associates the motion of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda Galaxy (M31) to their internal gravity, and aims to find the total mass of the Local Group (LG). However, the classical TA always overestimates the LG mass, presumably because it ignores the hierarchical scenario and other interactions such as that with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This work focuses on the...
Primordial black holes could constitute part or all of dark matter but they require large inhomogeneities to form in the early universe. These inhomogeneities can strongly backreact on the large scale dynamics of the universe. Stochastic inflation provides a way of studying this backreaction and getting an estimation of the abundance of primordial black holes. Because stochastic inflation...
Star formation plays a crucial role in shaping its environment and is central to the evolution of planets, the interstellar medium, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. To bridge the gap between galactic-scale processes—where the initial conditions for star formation are set—and the formation of individual stars, we conducted state-of-the-art numerical simulations of a portion of a galaxy....
