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We take the end result of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of star formation which include feedback from photoionisation and stellar winds and evolve them for a further 10Myr using $N$-body simulations. We compare the…

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The stellar initial mass function (IMF) in the early universe is essential to understand the formation of ancient galaxies. To this end, we conduct a series of long-term radiation hydrodynamic simulations following star cluster formation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-22 Sunmyon Chon , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Raffaella Schneider

We present a large suite of MHD simulations of turbulent, star-forming giant molecular clouds(GMCs) with stellar feedback, extending previous work by simulating 10 different random realizations for each point in the parameter space of cloud…

We use magnetohydrodynamical simulations of converging warm neutral medium flows to analyse the formation and global evolution of magnetised and turbulent molecular clouds subject to supernova feedback from massive stars. We show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Bastian Körtgen , Daniel Seifried , Robi Banerjee , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Avilés

We present the results of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with zoom-in initial conditions, and investigate the formation of the first galaxies and their evolution towards observable galaxies at $z \sim 6$. We focus on three different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Hidenobu Yajima , Kentaro Nagamine , Qirong Zhu , Sadegh Khochfar , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

We explore the impacts of ultraviolet (UV) radiation feedback on galaxies during the epoch of reionisation by cosmological simulations in which hydrodynamics and the transfer of the H and He ionising photons are consistently coupled.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kenji Hasegawa , Benoit Semelin

Context. Stellar feedback regulates star formation and shapes the interstellar medium, yet its role during the collapse of molecular clouds remains uncertain over a wide range of initial conditions. Aims. We explore how stellar winds and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 S. Jiménez , D. Kománek , R. Wünsch , J. Palouš , S. Ehlerová , S. Martínez-González , A. Srbljanović

UV radiation feedback from young massive stars plays a key role in the evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) by photoevaporating and ejecting the surrounding gas. We conduct a suite of radiation hydrodynamic simulations of star cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We numerically investigate the effect of feedback from the ionizing radiation heating from massive stars on the evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their star formation efficiency (SFE). We find that the star-forming regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Pedro Colin , Gilberto C. Gomez , Alan Watson

We simulate the evolution of a 10^9 Msun dark matter halo in a cosmological setting with an adaptive-mesh refinement code as an analogue to local low luminosity dwarf irregular and dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The primary goal of our study is…

Radiative feedback is an important consequence of cluster formation in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in which newly formed clusters heat and ionize their surrounding gas. The process of cluster formation, and the role of radiative feedback,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Corey Howard , Ralph Pudritz , William Harris

We present three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the impact of stellar winds, photoelectric heating, photodissociating and photoionising radiation, and supernovae on the chemical composition and star formation in a…

We present the results of N-body simulations in which we take the masses, positions and velocities of sink particles from five pairs of hydrodynamical simulations of star formation by Dale et al. (2012, 2013) and evolve them for a further…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Richard J. Parker , James E. Dale

Feedback from massive stars shapes the ISM and affects the evolution of galaxies, but its mechanisms acting at the small scales ($\sim 10$ pc) are still not well constrained observationally, especially in the low-metallicity environments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 Ivan S. Gerasimov , Oleg V. Egorov , Tatiana A. Lozinskaya , Alexei V. Moiseev , Dmitry V. Oparin

We present a model for star formation and supernova feedback that describes the multi-phase structure of star forming gas on scales that are typically not resolved in cosmological simulations. Our approach includes radiative heating and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-19 Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We use numerical simulations of isolated galaxies to study the effects of stellar feedback on the formation and evolution of giant star-forming gas 'clumps' in high-redshift, gas-rich galaxies. Such galactic disks are unstable to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray , Eliot Quataert , Lars Hernquist

The baryon mass content of dark matter halos in the early Universe depends on global factors - e.g. ionising ultraviolet (UV) radiation background - and local factors - e.g. star formation efficiency and assembly history. We use a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-07 Anand Menon , Chris Power

We study the structural evolution of turbulent molecular clouds under the influence of ionizing radiation emitted from a nearby massive star by performing a high resolution parameter study with the iVINE code. The temperature is taken to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Matthias Gritschneder , Andreas Burkert , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch

Radiative and mechanical feedback of massive stars regulates star formation and galaxy evolution. Positive feedback triggers the creation of new stars by collecting dense shells of gas, while negative feedback disrupts star formation by…

Infrared shells and bubbles are ubiquitous in the Galaxy and can generally be associated with HII regions formed around young, massive stars. In this paper, we use high-resolution 3D SPH simulations to explore the effect of a single O7 star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Walch , A. P. Whitworth , T. G. Bisbas , R. Wunsch , D. A. Hubber