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Stars are born in dense molecular filaments irrespective of their mass. Compression of the ISM by shocks cause filament formation in molecular clouds. Observations show that a massive star cluster formation occurs where the peak of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Daisei Abe , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Rei Enokiya , Yasuo Fukui

Cloud-cloud collisions are expected to trigger star formation by compressing gas into dense, gravitationally unstable regions. However, the role of magnetic fields in this process is unclear. We use SPH to model head-on collisions between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Theotokis Georgatos , Anthony P. Whitworth

Recent hydrodynamical simulations of the late stages of supernova remnant (SNR) evolution have revealed that as they merge with the ambient medium, SNRs implode, leading to the formation of dense clouds in their center. While being highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-05 Leonard Elias Cornelius Romano , Andreas Burkert , Manuel Behrendt

We studied the formation process of star clusters using high-resolution N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamcs simulations of colliding galaxies. The total number of particles is 1.2x10^8 for our high resolution run. The gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Hiroshi Daisaka , Eiichiro Kokubo , Junichiro Makino , Takashi Okamoto , Kohji Tomisaka , Keiichi Wada , Naoki Yoshida

A supersonic cloud-cloud collision produces a shock-compressed layer which leads to formation of high-mass stars via gravitational instability. We carried out a detailed analysis of the layer by using the numerical simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Yasuo Fukui , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Takahiro Hayakawa , Kazufumi Torii

Although the basic physics of star formation is classical, numerical simulations have yielded essential insights into how stars form. They show that star formation is a highly nonuniform runaway process characterized by the emergence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard B. Larson

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

We present results of hydrodynamic simulations of star formation triggered by cloud-cloud collisions. During the early stages of star formation, low-mass objects form by gravitational instabilities in protostellar discs. A number of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-29 Spyridon Kitsionas , Anthony P. Whitworth , Ralf S. Klessen

Stars are thought to form predominantly within filamentary molecular clouds. Recent studies have suggested that active star formation, including the formation of stellar clusters and massive stars, occurs within so-called "hub" structures,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kohji Tomisaka , Tsuyoshi Inoue

We study the formation of giant dense cloud complexes and of stars within them by means of SPH numerical simulations of the mildly supersonic collision of gas streams (``inflows'') in the warm neutral medium (WNM). The resulting…

Filamentary molecular clouds are recognized as primary sites for the formation of stars. Specifically, regions characterized by the overlapping point of multiple filaments, known as hub regions, often associated with active star formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-19 Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kohji Tomisaka

Most formation scenarios of globular clusters assume a molecular cloud as the progenitor of the stellar system. However, it is still unclear, how this cloud is transformed into a star cluster, i.e. how the destructive processes related to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Theis

Using self-gravitational hydrodynamical numerical simulations, we investigated the evolution of high-density turbulent molecular clouds swept by a colliding flow. The interaction of shock waves due to turbulence produces networks of thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kazuhito Dobashi , Tomomi Shimoikura

We investigate, by means of numerical simulations, the phenomenology of star formation triggered by low-velocity collisions between low-mass molecular clumps. The simulations are performed using an SPH code which satisfies the Jeans…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Kitsionas , A. P. Whitworth

We show that massive stars and stellar clusters are formed simultaneously, the global evolution of the forming cluster is what allows the central stars to become massive. We predict that massive star forming clumps, such as those observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rowan J. Smith , Steven Longmore , Ian Bonnell

We model the formation of star clusters in a dwarf galaxy progenitor during the first $700 ~{\rm Myr}$ of cosmic history using a cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic simulation with a sub-grid star formation efficiency (SFE) model calibrated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Fred Angelo Batan Garcia , Massimo Ricotti , Kazuyuki Sugimura

Filaments are ubiquitous throughout the Galaxy. Massive star formation is often observed in hub-filament systems, where multiple filaments appear to be interconnected and merging. Filament-filament collisions are therefore a likely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Kohji Tomisaka , Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki

We invoke star formation triggered by cloud-cloud collisions to explain global star formation rates of disk galaxies and circumnuclear starbursts. Previous theories based on the growth rate of gravitational perturbations ignore the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jonathan C. Tan

Recent observations suggest that intensive molecular cloud collision can trigger massive star/cluster formation. The most important physical process caused by the collision is a shock compression. In this paper, the influence of a shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-07 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Patrick Hennebelle , Yasuo Fukui , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We study star cluster formation in various environments with different metallicities and column densities by performing a suite of three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations. We find that the photoionization feedback from massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-25 Hajime Fukushima , Hidenobu Yajima , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Tomoaki Matsumoto
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