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Globular clusters (GCs) are known to host multiple stellar populations showing chemical anomalies in the content of light elements. The origin of such anomalies observed in Galactic GCs is still debated. Here we analyse data compiled from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

Mergers of gas-rich galaxies lead to gravitationally driven increases in gas pressure that can trigger intense bursts of star and cluster formation. Although star formation itself is clustered, most newborn stellar aggregates are unbound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Schweizer

The star-to-star differences in the abundance of light elements observed in the globular clusters (GCs) can be explained assuming that a second generation (SG) of stars form in the gas ejected by the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Annibale D'Ercole , Francesca D'Antona , Enrico Vesperini

Many observational studies have revealed the presence of multiple stellar generations in Galactic globular clusters. These studies suggest that second-generation stars make up a significant fraction of the current mass of globular clusters,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Enrico Vesperini , Stephen L. W. McMillan , Francesca D'Antona , Annibale D'Ercole

We investigate the previously unexplored role of magnetic fields in the formation of second-generation (SG) stars in proto-globular clusters (GCs) using 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamical simulations. This study is based on the asymptotic…

We simulate the formation of second-generation stars in young clusters with masses of $10^{5}$ and $10^6\ {\rm M_\odot}$ within $30-100\ {\rm Myr}$ after the formation of clusters. We assume the clusters move through a uniform interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-13 Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Joakim Rosdahl , Francesco Calura , Sareh Ataiee

Stars in globular clusters (GCs) exhibit a peculiar chemical pattern with strong abundance variations in light elements along with a constant abundance in heavy elements. These abundance anomalies can be explained by a primordial pollution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Decressin , H. Baumgardt , P. Kroupa

We investigate the early evolution of two distinct populations of low-mass stars in globular clusters under the influence of primordial gas expulsion driven by supernovae to study if this process can increase the fraction of second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Decressin , H. Baumgardt , C. Charbonnel , P. Kroupa

We perform a series of direct $N$-body calculations to investigate the effect of residual gas expulsion from the gas-embedded progenitors of present-day globular clusters (GCs) on the stellar mass function (MF). Our models start either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 Hosein Haghi , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Pavel Kroupa , Sambaran Banerjee , Holger Baumgardt

We investigate the formation processes of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) omega Cen with multiple stellar populations based on our original hydrodynamical simulations with chemical enrichment by Type II supernovae (SNe II), asymptotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Kenji Bekki , Takuji Tsujimoto

Most Globular Clusters (GC) show chemical inhomogeneities in the composition of their stars, apparently due to a second stellar generation (SG) in which the forming gas is enriched by hot-CNO cycled material processed in stars belonging to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. D'Antona , V. Caloi

Globular clusters (GCs) are old massive star clusters that serve as `fossils' of galaxy formation. The advent of Gaia observatory has enabled detailed kinematics studies of the Galactic GCs and revolutionized our understanding of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-12 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We discuss some of the key open questions regarding the formation and evolution of globular clusters (GCs) during galaxy formation and assembly within a cosmological framework. The current state-of-the-art for both observations and…

We examine various implications from a dynamical and chemical model of globular clusters (GCs), which successfully reproduces the observed abundance patterns and the multiple populations of stars in these systems assuming chemical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniel Schaerer , Corinne Charbonnel

Stars in star clusters are thought to form in a single burst from a common progenitor cloud of molecular gas. However, massive, old globular clusters -- with ages greater than 10 billion years and masses of several hundred thousand solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng , Aaron M. Geller , Yu Xin , Yi Hu , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

The discovery of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters raises fundamental questions concerning the formation and dynamical history of these systems. In a previous study aimed at exploring the formation of second-generation (SG)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Enrico Vesperini , Stephen L. W. McMillan , Francesca D'Antona , Annibale D'Ercole

Several scenarios have been proposed to explain the presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters. Many of them invoke multiple generations of stars to explain the observed chemical abundance anomalies, but it has also been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Vincent Hénault-Brunet , Mark Gieles , Oscar Agertz , Justin I. Read

A significant fraction of stars in globular clusters (about 70%-85%) exhibit peculiar chemical patterns with strong abundance variations in light elements along with constant abundances in heavy elements. These abundance anomalies can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Decressin , H. Baumgardt , P. Kroupa , G. Meynet , C. Charbonnel

Collisions and mergers of gas-rich galaxies trigger bursts of star and cluster formation. Of the thousands of clusters typically formed during a major merger, only the most massive and compact survive for Gigayears as globular clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Schweizer

The internal dynamics of multiple stellar populations in Globular Clusters (GCs) provides unique constraints on the physical processes responsible for their formation. Specifically, the present-day kinematics of cluster stars, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 G. Cordoni , A. P. Milone , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , A. F. Marino , E. P. Lagioia , M. Tailo , H. Baumgardt , M. Hilker