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Radiative hydrodynamic simulations of solar and stellar surface convection have become an important tool for exploring the structure and gas dynamics in the envelopes and atmospheres of late-type stars and for improving our understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Beeck , R. Collet , M. Steffen , M. Asplund , R. H. Cameron , B. Freytag , W. Hayek , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Schüssler

We review progress in numerical simulations of star cluster formation. These simulations involve the bottom-up assembly of clusters through hierarchical mergers, which produces a fractal stellar distribution at young (~0.5 Myr) ages. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Cathie Clarke

I present a large set of high resolution simulations, called CosmicGrowth Simulations, which were generated with either 8.6 billion or 29 billion particles. As the nominal cosmological model that can match nearly all observations on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Y. P. Jing

We propose a new approach to comparing simulated observations that enables us to determine the significance of the underlying physical effects. We utilize the methodology of experimental design, a subfield of statistical analysis, to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Miayan Yeremi , Mallory Flynn , Stella Offner , Jason Loeppky , Erik Rosolowsky

Numerical hydro-N-body simulations are very important tools for making theoretical predictions for the formation of galaxy clusters. They show that the atmospheres of clusters of galaxies have quite complex angular and thermal structures.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Gardini , E. Rasia , P. Mazzotta , G. Tormen , S. De Grandi , L. Moscardini

Stellar oscillations can provide a wealth of information about a star, which can be extracted from observed time series of the star's brightness or radial velocity. In this paper we address the question of how to extract as much information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brendon J. Brewer , Timothy R. Bedding , Hans Kjeldsen , Dennis Stello

We introduce the MOdelling Star cluster population Assembly In Cosmological Simulations within EAGLE (E-MOSAICS) project. E-MOSAICS incorporates models describing the formation, evolution and disruption of star clusters into the EAGLE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Joel Pfeffer , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Robert A. Crain , Nate Bastian

Forthcoming large galaxy cluster surveys will yield tight constraints on cosmological models. It has been shown that in an idealized survey, containing > 10,000 clusters, statistical errors on dark energy and other cosmological parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joshua D. Younger , Zoltan Haiman , Greg L. Bryan , Sheng Wang

We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters containing populations of primordial binaries, using our newly updated Monte Carlo cluster evolution code with the inclusion of direct integration of binary scattering interactions. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John M. Fregeau , Frederic A. Rasio

Numerous stellar surveys have been or will provide photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic data for a large number of stars in the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies. Modern data processing tools and analysis methods are needed to deal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Sergen Özdemir , John Eduard Martínez-Fernández , Rodolfo Smiljanic

We propose a mixture model of open clusters (OCs) in the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) to measure the OC properties, including isochrone parameters (age, distance, metallicity, and dust extinction), stellar mass function (MF), and binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao

(abridged) The old Star Cluster (SC) systems surrounding any sofar investigated galaxy represent a powerful tool for the understanding of the cosmological evolution of their host galaxies. Phases of enhanced cluster formation can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Anders , R. de Grijs , U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben

Observations and theoretical work suggest that globular clusters may be born with initially very large binary fractions. We present first results from our newly modified Monte-Carlo cluster evolution code, which treats binary interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John M. Fregeau , M. Atakan Gurkan , Frederic A. Rasio

We present the implementation of updated stellar evolution recipes in the codes \texttt{Nbody6++GPU, MOCCA} and \texttt{McLuster}. We test them through numerical simulations of star clusters containing $1.1\times 10^5$ stars (with…

In previous papers of the series we used a combination of optical and near-infrared colours to derive constraints on the relative age structure in globular cluster systems. Here, we present the details, strength and limitations of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maren Hempel , Markus Kissler-Patig

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the intracluster medium (ICM) physics are understood and controlled. In this paper, we present mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

(abridged) Context: Both observations and simulations of embedded protostars have progressed rapidly in recent years. Bringing them together is an important step in advancing our knowledge about the earliest phases of star formation. Aims:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Søren Frimann , Jes K. Jørgensen , Troels Haugbølle

We employ the Delta-variance analysis and study the turbulent gas dynamics of simulated molecular clouds (MCs). Our models account for a simplified treatment of time-dependent chemistry and the non-isothermal nature of the gas. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Erik Bertram , Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover

We introduce our new code MYOSOTIS (Make Your Own Synthetic ObservaTIonS) which is designed to produce synthetic observations from simulated clusters. The code can synthesise observations from both ground- and spaced-based observatories,…

N-body simulations of star cluster evolution have reached a high degree of realism, by incorporating more and more elements of stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and hydrodynamics. At the end of this conference, six participants discussed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Adrienne Cool , Charles Bailyn , Steve McMillan , Mario Livio , Mike Shara