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We examine simulations of isolated galaxies to analyse the effects of localised feedback on the formation and evolution of molecular clouds. Feedback contributes to turbulence and the destruction of clouds, leading to a population of clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 David J. Williamson , Robert J. Thacker , James Wurster , Brad K. Gibson

The star formation efficiency (SFE) measures the proportion of molecular gas converted into stars, while the star formation rate (SFR) indicates the rate at which gas is transformed into stars. Here we propose such a model in the framework…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 An-Xu Luo , Hong-Li Liu , Jin-Zeng Li

A set of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations of the influence of photoionising radiation and stellar winds on a series of 10$^{4}$M$_{\odot}$ turbulent molecular clouds with initial virial ratios of 0.7, 1.1, 1.5, 1.9 and 2.3 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 James E. Dale

We present semi-analytic dynamical models for giant molecular clouds evolving under the influence of HII regions launched by newborn star clusters. In contrast to previous work, we neither assume that clouds are in virial or energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher D. Matzner , Christopher F. McKee

We investigate the formation and evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in a Milky-Way-like disk galaxy with a flat rotation curve. We perform a series of 3D adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) numerical simulations that follow both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Jonathan C. Tan

We systematically investigate how cloud-cloud collisions influence star formation, emphasizing the roles of collision velocity, magnetic field orientation, and radiative feedback. Using the first cloud-cloud collision simulations that model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-13 Tabassum S. Tanvir , Michael Y. Grudić

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-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star formation in self-gravitating, turbulent molecular clouds, modeling the formation of individual massive stars, including their UV radiation feedback. The set of simulations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-30 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti , Sam Geen

Feedback from massive stars is thought to play an important role in the evolution of molecular clouds. In this work we analyse the effects of stellar winds and supernovae (SNe) in the evolution of two massive ($\sim 10^6\,M_\odot$) giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-11 Ramon Rey-Raposo , Clare Dobbs , Oscar Agertz , Christian Alig

We present a model for the radiative output of star clusters in the process of star formation suitable for use in hydrodynamical simulations of radiative feedback. Gas in a clump, defined as a region whose density exceeds 10^4 cm^-3, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Corey S. Howard , Ralph E. Pudritz , William E. Harris

We develop a new realistic prescription for modeling the stellar feedback, which minimizes any ad hoc assumptions about sub-grid physics. We start with developing high resolution models of the ISM and formulate the conditions required for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin

We investigate the spatially-resolved star formation relation using a galactic disk formed in a comprehensive high-resolution (3.8 pc) simulation. Our new implementation of stellar feedback includes ionizing radiation as well as supernova…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-12 Ji-hoon Kim , Mark R. Krumholz , John H. Wise , Matthew J. Turk , Nathan J. Goldbaum , Tom Abel

In previous contributions, we have presented an analytical model describing the evolution of molecular clouds (MCs) undergoing hierarchical gravitational contraction. The cloud's evolution is characterized by an initial increase in its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-18 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Avilés , Roberto Galván-Madrid , Jan Forbrich

Stellar winds and supernova (SN) explosions of massive stars ("stellar feedback") create bubbles in the interstellar medium (ISM) and insert newly produced heavy elements and kinetic energy into their surroundings, possibly driving…

We present a one-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic model of a spherically symmetric cloud evolving under the influence of the self-gravity and the feedback from a star cluster forming in its centre. On one hand, the model is simple due to…

We simulate the formation and evolution of young star clusters using the combination of SPH simulations and direct N-body simulations. We start by performing SPH simulations of the giant molecular cloud with a turbulent velocity field, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 M. S. Fujii , S. Portegies Zwart

This paper summarises results from semi-analytical modelling of star formation in protocluster clumps of different metallicities. In this model, gravitationally bound cores form uniformly in the clump following a prescribed core formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-06 Sami Dib

Stellar clusters are critical constituents within galaxies: they are the result of highest-density star formation, and through their spatially and temporally correlated feedback they regulate their host galaxy evolution. We present a novel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-12 Marta Reina-Campos , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Alison Sills , Hui Li

Stellar feedback, star formation and gravitational interactions are major controlling forces in the evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs). To explore their relative roles, we examine the properties and evolution of GMCs forming in an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Elizabeth J. Tasker , James Wadsley , Ralph Pudritz

We investigated the effect of photoionising feedback inside turbulent star-forming clouds, comparing the resultant star formation in both idealised profiles and more realistic cloud structures drawn from a global galaxy simulation. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-19 Kazuhiro Shima , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Asao Habe