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Molecular clouds are turbulent structures whose star formation efficiency (SFE) is strongly affected by internal stellar feedback processes. In this paper we determine how sensitive the SFE of molecular clouds is to randomised inputs in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-20 Sam Geen , Stuart K. Watson , Joakim Rosdahl , Rebekka Bieri , Ralf S. Klessen , Patrick Hennebelle

We present a numerical study of the evolution of molecular clouds, from their formation by converging flows in the warm ISM, to their destruction by the ionizing feedback of the massive stars they form. We improve with respect to our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Pedro Colin , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Gilberto C. Gomez

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

Measurements of the star formation efficiency (SFE) of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Milky Way generally show a large scatter, which could be intrinsic or observational. We use magnetohydrodynamic simulations of GMCs (including…

By performing three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations, we study the formation of young massive star clusters (YMCs, $M_{*}>10^4~M_{\odot}$) in clouds with the surface density ranging from $\Sigma_{\rm cl} = 80$ to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Hajime Fukushima , Hidenobu Yajima

Motivated by the early excess of bright galaxies seen by JWST, we run zoom-in cosmological simulations of a massive galaxy at Cosmic Dawn, in a halo of $10^{11} M_\odot$ at $z = 9$, using the hydro-gravitational code RAMSES at an effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Zachary Lee Andalman , Romain Teyssier , Avishai Dekel

We numerically investigate the effect of feedback from the ionizing radiation heating from massive stars on the evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their star formation efficiency (SFE). We find that the star-forming regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Pedro Colin , Gilberto C. Gomez , Alan Watson

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

Most stars in the Galaxy are believed to be formed within star clusters from collapsing molecular clouds. However, the complete process of star formation, from the parent cloud to a gas-free star cluster, is still poorly understood. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-23 Elena Gavagnin , Andreas Bleuler , Joakim Rosdahl , Romain Teyssier

We investigate the response of the star formation efficiency (SFE) to the main parameters of simulations of molecular cloud formation by the collision of warm diffuse medium (WNM) cylindrical streams, neglecting stellar feedback and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Yetli Rosas-Guevara , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Gilberto C. Gomez , A. -Katharina Jappsen

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 a suite of 3D multi-physics MHD simulations following star formation in isolated turbulent molecular gas disks ranging from 5 to 500 parsecs in radius. These simulations are designed to survey the range of surface densities…

Star formation in galaxies is inherently complex, involving the interplay of physical processes over a hierarchy of spatial scales. In this work, we investigate the connection between global (galaxy-scale) and local (cloud-scale) star…

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

The relations between star formation and properties of molecular clouds are studied based on a sample of star forming regions in the Galactic Plane. Sources were selected by having radio recombination lines to provide identification of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Nalin Vutisalchavakul , Neal J. Evans , Mark Heyer

We calculate the hydrogen and helium-ionizing radiation escaping star-forming molecular clouds, as a function of the star cluster mass and compactness, using a set of high-resolution radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti , Sam Geen

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

We measure the star formation efficiency (SFE), the star formation rate per unit gas, in 23 nearby galaxies and compare it to expectations from proposed star formation laws and thresholds. We use HI maps from THINGS and derive H2 maps from…

We present a new particle code for modelling the evolution of galaxies. The code is based on a multi-phase description for the interstellar medium (ISM). We included star formation (SF), stellar feedback by massive stars and planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Harfst , Christian Theis , Gerhard Hensler

UV radiation feedback from young massive stars plays a key role in the evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) by photoevaporating and ejecting the surrounding gas. We conduct a suite of radiation hydrodynamic simulations of star cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker
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