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We investigate the thermal and dynamical evolution of primordial gas clouds in the universe after decoupling. Comparing the time-scale of dynamical evolution with that of fragmentation, we can estimate the typical fragmentation scale. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryoichi Nishi , Hajime Susa , Hideya Uehara , Masako Yamada , Kazuyuki Omukai

Filamentary molecular clouds are recognized as primary sites for the formation of stars. Specifically, regions characterized by the overlapping point of multiple filaments, known as hub regions, often associated with active star formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-19 Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kohji Tomisaka

To advance our understanding of massive star formation, it is essential to perform a comprehensive suite of simulations that explore the relevant parameter space and include enough physics to enable a comparison with observational data. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Birka Zimmermann , Stefanie Walch , Seamus D. Clarke , Richard Wünsch , Andre Klepitko

We present radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations aimed at studying evolutionary properties of H\,{\normalsize II} regions in turbulent, magnetised, and collapsing molecular clouds formed by converging flows in the warm neutral medium.…

We numerically investigate dynamical and chemical properties of star clusters (open and globular clusters, and ``super star clusters'', SSC) formed in interacting/merging galaxies. The investigation is two-fold: (1) large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenji Bekki

We perform SPH simulations of the collapse and fragmentation of low-mass cores having different initial levels of turbulence (alpha_turb=0.05,0.10,0.25). We use a new treatment of the energy equation which captures the transport of cooling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. E. Attwood , S. P. Goodwin , D. Stamatellos , A. P. Whitworth

Stars form by gravoturbulent fragmentation of interstellar gas clouds. The supersonic turbulence ubiquitously observed in Galactic molecular gas generates strong density fluctuations with gravity taking over in the densest and most massive…

It has been suggested that star-forming galaxies may host a substantial, dark reservoir of gas in the form of planetary-mass molecular clouds that are so cold that $\text{H}_{2}$ can condense. Here we investigate the process of tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Arthur G. Suvorov , Mark A. Walker

Criteria for gravitational collapse of expanding shells in rotating, shearing galaxy disks were determined using three-dimensional numerical simulations in the thin shell approximation. The simulations were run over a grid of 7 independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Jan Palous , Sona Ehlerova

The boundary conditions of the heliosphere are set by the ionization, density and composition of inflowing interstellar matter. Constraining the properties of the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) at the heliosphere requires radiative transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan D. Slavin , Priscilla C. Frisch

The fragmentation of shocked flows in a thermally bistable medium provides a natural mechanism to form turbulent cold clouds as precursors to molecular clouds. Yet because of the large density and temperature differences and the range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Fabian Heitsch , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch

We analyze the dynamical expansion of the HII region and outer photodissociation region (PDR) around a massive star by solving the UV and FUV radiation transfer and the thermal and chemical processes in a time-dependent hydrodynamics code.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Hosokawa , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The complexity of the ISM is such that it is unlikely that star formation is initiated in the same way in all molecular clouds. While some clouds seem to collapse on their own, others may be triggered by an external event such as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Duarte-Cabral , C. L. Dobbs , N. Peretto , G. A. Fuller

Most stars are formed as star clusters in galaxies, which then disperse into galactic disks. Upcoming exascale supercomputational facilities will enable performing simulations of galaxies and their formation by resolving individual stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Yutaka Hirai , Michiko S. Fujii , Takayuki R. Saitoh

The radiation force on dust grains may be dynamically important in driving turbulence and outflows in rapidly star-forming galaxies. Recent studies focus on the highly optically-thick limit relevant to the densest ultra-luminous galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Benjamin D. Wibking , Todd A. Thompson , Mark R. Krumholz

The structure of cloud complexes appears to be well described by a "tree structure" representation when the image is partitioned into "clouds". In this representation, the parent-child relationships are assigned according to containment.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nestor Sanchez , Antonio Parravano

Radiation feedback plays a crucial role in the process of star formation. In order to simulate the thermodynamic evolution of disks, filaments, and the molecular gas surrounding clusters of young stars, we require an efficient and accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Mikhail Klassen , Rolf Kuiper , Ralph E. Pudritz , Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Lars Buntemeyer

We have computed a series of realistic and self-consistent models that have been shown to be able to reproduce the emitted spectra of HII galaxies in a star bursting scenario (Martin-Majon et al. 2008). Our models combine different codes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-24 M. L. Martin-Manjon , M. Molla , A. I. Diaz , R. Terlevich

We discuss the induced star formation in dense walls of expanding shells. The fragmentation process is studied using the linear perturbation theory. The influence of the energy input, the ISM distribution and the ISM speed of sound is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ehlerova , J. Palous

Molecular clouds are supported by turbulence and magnetic fields, but quantifying their influence on cloud lifecycle and star formation efficiency (SFE) remains an open question. We perform radiation MHD simulations of star-forming giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , Nina Filippova