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This paper proposes a morpho-statistical characterisation of the galaxy distribution through spatial statistical modelling based on inhomogeneous Gibbs point processes. The galaxy distribution is supposed to exhibit two components. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Lluís Hurtado-Gil , Radu S. Stoica , Vicent J. Martínez , Pablo Arnalte-Mur

Within the distance of 1 pc from the Galactic center (GC), more than 100 young massive stars have been found. The massive stars at 0.1-1 pc from the GC are located in one or two disks, while those within 0.1 pc from the GC, S-stars, have an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Michiko Fujii , Masaki Iwasawa , Yoko Funato , Junichiro Makino

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected, through gravitational lensing, several young massive star clusters (YMCs), which are considered as relevant building blocks of high redshift galaxies. In this work, we show how a…

The properties of young star clusters formed within a galaxy are thought to vary in different interstellar medium (ISM) conditions, but the details of this mapping from galactic to cluster scales are poorly understood due to the large…

Young massive clusters (YMCs) are the most massive star clusters forming in nearby galaxies and are thought to be a young analogue to the globular clusters. Understanding the formation process of YMCs leads to looking into very efficient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-27 Mutsuko Inoguchi , Takashi Hosokawa , Hajime Fukushima , Kei E. I. Tanaka , Hidenobu Yajima , Shin Mineshige

We analyse the population of bright star clusters in the interacting galaxy pair NGC 4038/39 detected with HST WFPC1 by Whitmore & Schweizer (1995) using our spectrophotometric evolutionary synthesis models for various initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben

We compare the mass functions of young star clusters (ages $\leq 10$ Myr) and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in six galaxies that cover a large range in mass, metallicity, and star formation rate (LMC, M83, M51, NGC 3627, the Antennae, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Angus Mok , Rupali Chandar , S. Michael Fall

Galaxy mergers are known to host abundant young massive cluster (YMC) populations, whose formation mechanism is still not well-understood. Here, we present a high-resolution galaxy merger simulation with explicit star formation and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-17 Hui Li , Mark Vogelsberger , Greg L. Bryan , Federico Marinacci , Laura V. Sales , Paul Torrey

We present a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) catalog toward M33, containing 71 GMCs in total, based on wide field and high sensitivity CO(J=3-2) observations with a spatial resolution of 100 pc using the ASTE 10 m telescope. Employing archival…

We use fractal analysis to systematically study the clustering strength of the distribution of stars, HII regions, molecular gas, and individual giant molecular clouds in M33 over a wide range of spatial scales. We find a clear transition…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-15 Nestor Sanchez , Neyda Anez , Emilio Alfaro , Mary Crone Odekon

HST WFPC1 observations revealed 738 bright star clusters spread over the inner 12 kpc of the interacting galaxy pair NGC 4038/39. If the young star clusters (YSCs) formed in the global starburst are (proto-) globular or open clusters has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uta Fritze - v. Alvensleben , Oliver Kurth

We investigate the structural, kinematical, and chemical properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in galaxies of different Hubble types in a self-consistent manner based on high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations combined with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Bekki , H. Yahagi , M. Nagashima , D. A. Forbes

Young massive clusters (YMCs) are compact ($\lesssim$1 pc), high-mass (>10${}^4$ M${}_{\odot}$) stellar systems of significant scientific interest. Due to their rarity and rapid formation, we have very few examples of YMC progenitor gas…

Young massive clusters (YMCs) with stellar masses of 10^4 - 10^5 Msun and core stellar densities of 10^4 - 10^5 stars per cubic pc are thought to be the `missing link' between open clusters and extreme extragalactic super star clusters and…

The properties of young massive clusters (YMCs) are key to understanding the star formation mechanism in starburst systems, especially mergers. We present ALMA high-resolution ($\sim$10 pc) continuum (100 and 345 GHz) data of YMCs in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-06 Hao He , Christine Wilson , Nathan Brunetti , Molly Finn , Ashley Bemis , Kelsey Johnson

Young massive clusters (YMCs) are dense aggregates of young stars, which are essential to galaxy evolution, owing to their ultraviolet radiation, stellar winds, and supernovae. The typical mass and radius of YMCs are M~10^4 M_sun and R~1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Ryunosuke Maeda , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Yasuo Fukui

Understanding mass, size, and surface mass density of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in galaxies is key to insights into star formation processes. We analyze these in M33 using Herschel dust and archival IRAM 30m telescope data, compared to…

This review summarises the main properties of Young Massive Clusters (YMCs), including their population properties, particularly focusing on extragalactic cluster samples. We discuss potential biases and caveats that can affect the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Nate Bastian

The observational properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) are vital tools to investigate the violent star formation histories of their host galaxies. This violence is thought to have been triggered by galaxy interactions or mergers.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Anders , Uta Fritze - v. Alvensleben , Richard de Grijs

Young Massive Clusters (YMCs) represent ideal testbeds in which to study massive stellar evolution as they contain large, coeval, chemically homogeneous, samples of massive stars. By studying YMCs with a range of ages (and hence turn-off…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-06 Ben Davies