SPH simulations of star/planet formation triggered by cloud-cloud collisions
Astrophysics
2008-02-29 v1
Abstract
We present results of hydrodynamic simulations of star formation triggered by cloud-cloud collisions. During the early stages of star formation, low-mass objects form by gravitational instabilities in protostellar discs. A number of these low-mass objects are in the sub-stellar mass range, including a few objects of planetary mass. The disc instabilities that lead to the formation of low-mass objects in our simulations are the product of disc-disc interactions and/or interactions between the discs and their surrounding gas.
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@article{arxiv.0802.4146,
title = {SPH simulations of star/planet formation triggered by cloud-cloud collisions},
author = {Spyridon Kitsionas and Anthony P. Whitworth and Ralf S. Klessen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.4146},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 249: Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics, Y.-S. Sun, S. Ferraz-Mello & J.-L. Zhou (eds.), Cambridge University Press