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We study the formation and early evolution of star clusters that have a wide range of masses and background cloud mass surface densities, $\Sigma_{\rm cloud}$, which help set the initial sizes, densities, and velocity dispersions of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-08 Juan P. Farias , Jonathan C. Tan

A Lagrangian, particle-based numerical method (tree code gravity plus smoothed particle hydrodynamics) was used to simulate clump-clump collisions occurring within GMCs. The collisions formed shock-compressed layers, out of which condensed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. S. Bhattal , N. Francis , S. J. Watkins , A. P. Whitworth

Identified as parsec-size, gas clumps at the junction of multiple filaments, hub-filament systems (HFS) play a crucial role during the formation of young clusters and high-mass stars. These HFS appear nevertheless to be detached from most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 A. Hacar , R. Konietzka , D. Seifried , S. E. Clark , A. Socci , F. Bonanomi , A. Burkert , E. Schisano , J. Kainulainen , R. Smith

Star clusters are known to be formed in turbulent molecular clouds. How turbulence is driven in molecular clouds and what effect this has on star formation is still unclear. We compare a simulation setup with turbulent driving everywhere in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 Jamie D. Smith , James E. Dale , Sarah E. Jaffa , Martin G. H. Krause

We started a multi-scale analysis of G202.3+2.5, an intertwined filamentary region of Monoceros OB1. In Paper I, we examined the distributions of dense cores and protostars and found enhanced star formation (SF) activity in the junction…

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

The conditions required for massive star formation are debated, particularly whether massive stars must form in conjunction with massive clusters. Some authors have advanced the view that stars of any mass (below the total cluster mass) can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Jamie D. Smith , Sarah E. Jaffa , Martin G. H. Krause

Young stars form on a wide range of scales, producing aggregates and clusters with various degrees of gravitational self-binding. The loose aggregates have a hierarchical structure in both space and time that resembles interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Elmegreen , Y. N. Efremov , R. E. Pudritz , H. Zinnecker

We use direct N-body simulations of gas embedded star clusters to study the importance of stellar collisions for the formation and mass accretion history of high-mass stars. Our clusters start in virial equilibrium as a mix of gas and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 H. Baumgardt , R. S. Klessen

Processes that promote the formation of dense cold clouds in the interstellar media of galaxies are reviewed. Those that involve background stellar mass include two-fluid instabilities, spiral density wave shocking, and bar accretion. Young…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bruce G. Elmegreen

We describe results from a fully self-consistent three dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of the formation of one of the first stars in the Universe. Dark matter dominated pre-galactic objects form because of gravitational instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 Tom Abel , Greg L. Bryan , Michael L. Norman

Star cluster formation and assembly occurs inside filamentary and turbulent molecular clouds, which imprints both spatial and kinematic substructure on the young cluster. In this paper, we quantify the amount and evolution of this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Edwin Laverde-Villarreal , Alison Sills , Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier , Veronica Arias Callejas

We use a suite a cooling halo simulations to study a new mechanism for rapid accretion of hot halo gas onto star-forming galaxies. Correlated supernovae events create converging 'superbubbles' in the halo gas. Where these collide, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-16 Alexander Hobbs , Justin Read , Andrina Nicola

Low-velocity large-scale shocks impacting on the ISM may efficiently shape molecular clouds and trigger star formation within them. These shocks, both driven by galactic bubbles and/or cloud-cloud collisions, leave specific signatures in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 G. Cosentino , I. Jiménez-Serra , R. Liu , C. -Y. Law , J. C. Tan , J. D. Henshaw , A. T. Barnes , F. Fontani , P. Caselli , S. Viti

Stars form from the gravitational collapse of dense molecular cloud cores. In the protostellar phase, mass accretes from the core onto a protostar, likely through an accretion disk, and it is during this phase that the initial masses of…

The formation of stars and planetary systems is a complex phenomenon, which relies on the interplay of multiple physical processes. Nonetheless, it represents a crucial stage for our understanding of the Universe, and in particular of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Alessandro Lupi , Stefano Bovino , Tommaso Grassi

This paper investigates the impact of radiative and mechanical feedback from O-type stars on their parent molecular clouds and the triggering of formation of future generation of stars. We study the infrared bubble S111 created by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Bhaswati Mookerjea

The history of star formation in the strong gravitational potential of the Galactic center has been of much interest, recently. We propose that the sub-parsec-scale disk of massive stars orbiting the massive black hole at the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-11 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle

In recent years, there were studies on the omnipresence and structures of filaments in star-forming regions, and the role of their fragmentation in the process of star formation. However, only a few studies analysed the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-07 Roxana-Adela Chira

Hub-filament systems are suggested to be birth cradles of high-mass stars and clusters, but the formation of hub-filament structure is still unclear. Using the survey data FUGIN $^{13}$CO (1-0), C$^{18}$O (1-0), and SEDIGISM $^{13}$CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Jian-Wen Zhou , Shanghuo Li , Hong-Li Liu , Yaping Peng , Siju Zhang , Feng-Wei Xu , Chao Zhang , Tie Liu , Jin-Zeng Li