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In young star clusters, the density can be high enough and the velocity dispersion low enough for stars to collide and merge with a significant probability. This has been suggested as a possible way to build up the high-mass portion of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-12 Marc Freitag

Star cluster formation in giant molecular clouds involves the local collapse of the cloud into small gas-rich subclusters, which can then subsequently collide and merge to build up the final star cluster(s). In this paper, we simulate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Jeremy Karam , Alison Sills

W3 is one of the most outstanding regions of high-mass star formation in the outer solar circle, including two active star-forming clouds, W3 Main and W3(OH). Based on a new analysis of the $^{12}$CO data obtained at 38$^{\prime\prime}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-18 R. I. Yamada , H. Sano , K. Tachihara , R. Enokiya , A. Nishimura , S. Fujita , M. Kohno , John H. Bieging , Y. Fukui

The high velocity dispersion compact cloud CO-0.30-0.07 is a peculiar molecular clump discovered in the central moleculr zone of the Milky Way, which is characterized by its extremely broad velocity emissions ($\sim 145\ \rm{km s^{-1}}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Kunihiko Tanaka , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Tomoharu Oka

We demonstrate that single and binary star clusters can be formed during cloud-cloud collisions triggered by the tidal interaction between the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. We run two different sets of self-consistent numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenji Bekki , Michael A. Beasley , Duncan A. Forbes , Warrick J. Couch

Young massive stars in the central parsec of our Galaxy are best explained by star formation within at least one, and possibly two, massive self-gravitating gaseous discs. With help of numerical simulations, we here consider whether the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergei Nayakshin , Alexander Hobbs

The formation of super star clusters (SSCs) in galaxies remains a fundamental yet unresolved problem. Among the proposed mechanisms, cloud-cloud collisions (CCCs) have been suggested as a potential trigger, although observational validation…

Massive star-forming regions (MSFRs) are commonly associated with hub-filament systems (HFSs) and sites of cloud-cloud collision (CCC). Recent observational studies of some MSFRs suggest a possible connection between CCC and the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 A. K. Maity , T. Inoue , Y. Fukui , L. K. Dewangan , H. Sano , R. I. Yamada , K. Tachihara , N. K. Bhadari , O. R. Jadhav

We investigate star formation occurring in idealised giant molecular clouds, comparing structures that evolve in isolation versus those undergoing a collision. Two different collision speeds are investigated and the impact of photoionising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-16 Kazuhiro Shima , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Christoph Federrath , Asao Habe

The Sgr\,B region, including Sgr\,B1 and Sgr\,B2, is one of the most active star-forming regions in the Galaxy. Hasegawa et al. (1994) originally proposed that Sgr\,B2 was formed by a cloud-cloud collision (CCC) between two clouds with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Rei Enokiya , Yasuo Fukui

We compare the properties of shocked gas in Sgr B2 with maps obtained from 3D simulations of a collision between two fractal clouds. In agreement with $^{13}$CO(1-0) observations, our simulations show that a cloud-cloud collision produces a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Jairo Armijos-Abendaño , Helga Dénes

To probe the star-formation (SF) processes, we present results of an analysis of the molecular cloud G35.20$-$0.74 (hereafter MCG35.2) using multi-frequency observations. The MCG35.2 is depicted in a velocity range of 30-40 km s$^{-1}$. An…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 L. K. Dewangan

Collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) have been proposed as a mechanism to trigger massive star and star cluster formation. To investigate the astrochemical signatures of such collisions, we carry out 3D magnetohydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-24 Chia-Jung Hsu , Jonathan C. Tan , Jonathan Holdship , Duo , Xu , Serena Viti , Benjamin Wu , Brandt Gaches

Recent large-area, deep CO surveys in the Galactic disk have revealed the formation of ~50 high-mass stars or clusters triggered by cloud-cloud collisions (CCCs). Although the Galactic Center (GC) -- which contains the highest volume…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Rei Enokiya , Kazufumi Torii , Yasuo Fukui

We investigate collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) as potential generators of their internal turbulence. Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of self-gravitating, magnetized, turbulent, GMCs, we compare kinematic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Fumitaka Nakamura , Duncan Christie , Qi Li

We study the effects of the magnetic fields on the formation of massive, self-gravitationally bound cores (MBCs) in high-speed cloud-cloud collisions (CCCs). Extending our previous work (Sakre et al. 2021), we perform magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-24 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto , Rei Enokiya , Yasuo Fukui , Takashi Hosokawa

We show that large, high-redshift (z>10) galaxies with virial temperature in excess of 10^4K may be mostly comprised of cold atomic clouds which were formerly minihalos. These clouds move at a speed of 15-30km/s and collide with one another…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Renyue Cen

{It has recently been proposed that giant molecular complexes form at the sites where streams of diffuse warm atomic gas collide at transonic velocities.} {We study the global statistics of molecular clouds formed by large scale colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Banerjee , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , R. Klessen , E. Audit

We have studied head-on collisions between equal-mass, mildly supersonic (Mach number 1.5) HI clouds, in a standard Two-phase ISM (T_cl = 74 K, n_cl = 22 cm^-3, \chi = 100). We explore the role of various factors, including the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Andrea Ferrara , Dongsu Ryu

To reveal the origin of the mini-starbursts in the Milky Way, we carried out large-scale CO observations toward the RCW 106 giant molecular cloud (GMC) complex using the NANTEN2 4-m radio telescope operated by Nagoya University. We also…