Resolved simulations of jet-ISM interaction: Implications for gas dynamics and star formation

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent simulations of relativistic jets interacting with the interstellar medium, highlighting their effects on gas dynamics and star formation in galaxies.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent simulation results to elucidate how jet-ISM interactions influence galaxy evolution and star formation processes.

Findings

Jets significantly alter gas distribution and energetics.

Jet interactions can suppress or trigger star formation.

Simulations reveal complex, turbulent gas responses.

Abstract

Relativistic jets can interact with the ambient gas distribution of the host galaxy, before breaking out to larger scales. In the past decade several studies have simulated jet-driven outflows to understand how they affect the nearby environment, and over what spatial and temporal scales such interactions occur. The simulations are able to capture the interaction of the jets with the turbulent clumpy interstellar medium and the resultant energetics of the gas. In this review we summarise the results of such recent studies and discuss their implications on the evolution of the dynamics of the gas distribution and the star formation rate.