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We present the Class I protostellar binary separation distribution based on the data tabulated in the companion paper. We verify the excess of Class I binary stars over solar-type main-sequence stars, especially at separations beyond 500…

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The majority of stars in the Galactic field and halo are part of binary or multiple systems. A significant fraction of these systems have orbital separations in excess of thousands of astronomical units, and systems wider than a parsec have…

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Most stars form in star clusters and stellar associated. To understand the roles of star cluster environments in shaping the dynamical evolution of planetary systems, we carry out direct $N$-body simulations of four planetary systems models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Maxwell Xu Cai , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Simon F. Portegies Zwart , Rainer Spurzem

Driven by recent observational findings, we select massive interactive binaries as the most suitable among the existing candidates for producing the chemical patterns typical of multiple populations of Galactic globular clusters. Still, to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Alvio Renzini , Anna F. Marino , Antonino P. Milone

The formation of massive stars is one of the major unsolved problems in stellar astrophysics. However, only few if any of these are found as single stars, on average massive stars have more than one companion. Many of them are born in dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hans Zinnecker

We present results from the largest numerical simulation of star formation to resolve the fragmentation process down to the opacity limit. The simulation follows the collapse and fragmentation of a large-scale turbulent molecular cloud to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Matthew R. Bate , Ian A. Bonnell , Volker Bromm

We postulate that most stars are born in aggregates of binary systems which are dynamically equivalent to the `dominant mode cluster'. The initial binary orbits are consitent with pre-main sequence data. Stellar masses are paired at random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pavel Kroupa

The past few years have seen dramatic improvements in the scope and realism of star cluster simulations. Accurate treatments of stellar evolution, coupled with robust descriptions of all phases of binary evolution, have been incorporated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen L. W. McMillan

Open clusters(OCs) are usually young and suitable for studying the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Hitherto, only four planets have been found with radial velocity measurements in OCs. Meanwhile, a lot of free-floating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Hui-Gen Liu , Hui Zhang , Ji-Lin Zhou

The nearest site of massive star formation in Orion is dominated by the Trapezium subsystem, with its four OB stars and numerous companions. The question of how these stars came to be in such close proximity has implications for our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nickolas Moeckel , Ian A. Bonnell

The size of the core is one of the main diagnostics of the evolutionary state of a globular cluster. Much has been learned over the last few years about the behavior of the core radius during and after core collapse, under a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut

Protostellar binaries harbour complex environment morphologies. Observations represent a snapshot in time, and projection and optical depth effects impair our ability to interpret them. Careful comparison with high-resolution models that…

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We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters using our H\'enon-type Monte Carlo code for stellar dynamics including all relevant physics such as two-body relaxation, single and binary stellar evolution, Galactic tidal stripping,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourav Chatterjee , Stefan Umbreit , John M. Fregeau , Frederic A. Rasio

Serving as the progenitors of electromagnetic and gravitational wave transients, massive stars have received renewed interest in recent years. However, many aspects of their birth and evolution remain opaque, particularly in the context of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 J. S. Clark , M. E. Lohr , F. Najarro , L. R. Patrick , B. W. Ritchie

The evolution of a protostellar binary system is investigated while it is embedded in its parent molecular cloud core and acted upon by gas drag due to dynamical friction. Approximate analytical results are obtained for the energy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 U. Gorti , H. C. Bhatt

Observations have revealed that most stars are born in clusters. These systems, containing from tens to thousands of stars and typically significant mass in gas in the youngest systems, evolve due to a combination of stellar and star-gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian A. Bonnell

The high-quality OmegaCAM photometry of the 3x3 deg around the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) in r, and i filters by Beccari et al.(2017) revealed three well-separated pre-main sequences in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD). The objects…

The formation of stars with light-element abundance variations in globular clusters and the subsequent dynamical evolution of these multiple populations remains an open question. One of the most widely discussed is the AGB scenario, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-09 Mirek Giersz , Abbas Askar , Arkadiusz Hypki , Jongsuk Hong , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Lucas Hellstrom

This paper studies the dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters with $N$ = 100 - 1000 members. We use N-body simulations to explore how evolution depends on system size $N$ and the initial conditions. Motivated by recent observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fred C. Adams , Eva M. Proszkow , Marco Fatuzzo , Philip C. Myers

Whether BDs form as stars through gravitational collapse ("star-like") or BDs and some very low-mass stars constitute a separate population which form alongside stars comparable to the population of planets, e.g. through circumstellar disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 M. Marks , E. L. Martín , V. J. S. Béjar , N. Lodieu , P. Kroupa , M. E. Manjavacas , I. Thies , R. Rebolo López , S. Velasco