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In this paper we report results of collisional N-body simulations of the dynamical evolution of equal-mass star clusters containing a massive central black hole. Each cluster is composed of between 5,000 to 180,000 stars together with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger Baumgardt , Junichiro Makino , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

The gravitational $N$-body problem is a nearly universal problem in astrophysics which, despite its deceptive simplicity, still presents a significant computational challenge. For collisional systems such as dense star clusters, the need to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Kerwann Tep , Brian T. Cook , Carl L. Rodriguez , Jiya Jolly , Eddie Sawin , Michael S. Petersen , Christoph Gaffud

Molecular clouds are observed to be turbulent, but the origin of this turbulence is not well understood. As a result, there are two different approaches to simulating molecular clouds, one in which the turbulence is allowed to decay after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stella S. R. Offner , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

This paper presents results from axisymmetric simulations of magneto-rotational stellar core collapse to neutron stars in general relativity using the passive field approximation for the magnetic field. These simulations are performed using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Cerdá-Durán , J. A. Font , H. Dimmelmeier

Direct collisions between finite-sized particles occur commonly in many areas of astrophysics. Such collisions are typically mediated by chaotic, bound gravitational interactions involving small numbers of particles. An important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-03 Carlos Barrera , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Bastián Reinoso , Amelia M. Stutz , Dominik Schleicher

We study the dynamics and evolution of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster performing a high resolution direct one-million-body simulation. Focusing on the interactions between such stellar system and the central supermassive black hole, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-21 Taras Panamarev , Andreas Just , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik , Long Wang , Manuel Arca Sedda

Next generation galaxy surveys demand the development of massive ensembles of galaxy mocks to model the observables and their covariances, what is computationally prohibitive using $N$-body simulations. COLA is a novel method designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Albert Izard , Martin Crocce , Pablo Fosalba

(abridged) We develop a model which describes the coevolution of the mass function of dense cores and of the IMF in a protocluster clump. In the model, cores injected in the clump evolve under the effect of gas accretion. Accretion onto the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Sami Dib , Mohsen Shadmehri , Paolo Padoan , G. Maheswar , D. K. Ojha , Fazeleh Khajenabi

In this series of papers, we present a simulation-based model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies based on separate modelling of clustering in real space and velocity statistics. In the first paper, we present an emulator for the…

Globular Clusters (GCs) provide valuable insight into the properties of their host galaxies' dark matter halos. Using N-body simulations incorporating semianalytic dynamical friction and GC-GC merger prescriptions, we study the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-10 Shaunak Modak , Shany Danieli , Jenny E. Greene

We present a numerical study, based on Monte Carlo simulations, aimed at defining new empirical parameters measurable from observations and able to trace the different phases of star cluster dynamical evolution. As expected, a central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 B. Bhat , B. Lanzoni , F. R. Ferraro , E. Vesperini

Dense stellar systems such as globular clusters, galactic nuclei and nuclear star clusters are ideal loci to study stellar dynamics due to the very high densities reached, usually a million times higher than in the solar neighborhood; they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Justus Schneider , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Rainer Spurzem

We report the results of our three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulation of collapsing unmagnetized molecular cloud cores. We investigate the formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk and the clumps formed by disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shuichiro Inutsuka

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

Dense cores, the progenitors of stars, are in sub-pc scale and fragmented from pc-scale clumps. However, it is still unclear that how strongly the fragmentation process is affected by the properties of the host clumps, and how these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Wei-An Chen , Seamus D. Clarke , Ya-Wen Tang

Direct N-body simulations of globular clusters in a realistic Milky Way-like potential are carried out using the code NBODY6 to determine the impact of the host galaxy disk mass and geometry on the survival of star clusters. A relationship…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Juan P. Madrid , Jarrod R. Hurley , Marie Martig

The isothermal gravitational collapse and fragmentation of a region within a molecular cloud and the subsequent formation of a protostellar cluster is investigated numerically. The clump mass spectrum which forms during the fragmentation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ralf S. Klessen , Andreas Burkert , Matthew R. Bate

Star clusters are found in all sorts of environments and their formation and evolution is inextricably linked to the star formation process. Their eventual destruction can result from a number of factors at different times, but the process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-10-05 I. S. Konstantopoulos , N. Bastian , M. Gieles , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers

In a series of three papers, we introduced a novel cluster formation model that describes the formation, growth, and disruption of star clusters in high-resolution cosmological simulations. We tested this model on a Milky Way-sized galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Hui Li , Oleg Gnedin

Core collapse of dense massive star clusters is unavoidable and this leads to the formation of massive objects, with a mass up to 1000 $\msun$ and even larger. When these objects become stars, stellar wind mass loss determines their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 H. Belkus , J. Van Bever , D. Vanbeveren