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Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Pedro Guilherme-Garcia , Alberto Krone-Martins , André Moitinho

Planet formation is generally described in terms of a system containing the host star and a protoplanetary disc, of which the internal properties (e.g. mass and metallicity) determine the properties of the resulting planetary system.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Andrew J. Winter , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Steven N. Longmore , Mélanie Chevance

Stars form predominantly in groups usually denoted as clusters or associations. The observed stellar groups display a broad spectrum of masses, sizes and other properties, so it is often assumed that there is no underlying structure in this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 S. Pfalzner , H. Kirk , A. Sills , J. S. Urquhart , J. Kauffmann , M. A. Kuhn , A. Bhandare , K. M. Menten

We explore to which extent stars within Galactic disk open clusters resemble each other in the high-dimensional space of their photospheric element abundances, and contrast this with pairs of field stars. Our analysis is based on abundances…

Filaments are a ubiquitous morphological feature of the molecular interstellar medium and are identified as sites of star formation. In recent years, more than 100 large-scale filaments (with a length $>10$\,pc) have been observed in the…

The large--scale structure (LSS) in the Universe comprises a complicated filamentary network of matter. We study this network using a high--resolution simulation of structure formation of a $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter cosmology. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg M. Colberg , K. Simon Krughoff , Andrew J. Connolly

Star clusters stand at the intersection of much of modern astrophysics: the interstellar medium, gravitational dynamics, stellar evolution, and cosmology. Here we review observations and theoretical models for the formation, evolution, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher F. McKee , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Filamentary structure is important for the ISM and star formation. Galactic distribution of filaments may regulate the star formation rate in the Milky Way. However, interstellar filaments are intrinsically complex, making it difficult to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Ke Wang , Yifei Ge , Tapas Baug

Large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way have revealed that a small population of stars in the halo have light element abundances comparable to those found in globular clusters. The favoured explanation for the peculiar abundances of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 A. Savino , L. Posti

We have studied the chemical enrichment history of the interstellar medium through an analysis of the n-dimensional stellar abundances space. This work is a non-parametric analysis of the stellar chemical abundance space. The main goal is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-30 R. Boesso , H. J. Rocha-Pinto

Recent surveys of dust continuum emission at sub-mm wavelengths have shown that filamentary molecular clouds are ubiquitous along the Galactic plane. These structures are inhomogeneous, with over-densities that are sometimes associated with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Yanett Contreras , Guido Garay , Jill M. Rathborne , Patricio Sanhueza

Most stars form in compact, dense embedded clusters with memberships ranging from a dozen stars to many millions of stars. Embedded clusters containing more than a few hundred stars also contain O stars that disrupt the nebula abruptly.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Kroupa

We present a study using the second data release of the GALAH survey of stellar parameters and elemental abundances of 15 pairs of stars identified by Oh et al 2017. They identified these pairs as potentially co-moving pairs using proper…

Most star complexes are in fact complexes of stars, clusters and gas clouds; term "star complexes" was introduced as general one disregarding the preferential content of a complex. Generally the high rate of star formation in a complex is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Yuri N. Efremov

We report on a study of young star cluster complexes in the spiral galaxy M51. Recent studies have confirmed that star clusters do not form in isolation, but instead tend to form in larger groupings or complexes. We use {\it HST} broad and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nate Bastian , Mark Gieles , Yuri N. Efremov , Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers

The characterization of multiple stellar systems is an important ingredient for testing current star formation models. Stars are more often found in multiple systems, the more massive they are. A complete knowledge of the multiplicity of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rebekka Grellmann , Thomas Preibisch , Thorsten Ratzka , Stefan Kraus , Krzysztof Helminiak , Hans Zinnecker

Based on our compiled catalogue of fundamental astrophysical parameters for 593 open clusters, we analyze the relations between the chemical composition, spatial positions, Galactic orbital elements, age, and other physical parameters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-12-10 M. L. Gozha , V. V. Koval' , V. A. Marsakov

Most star complexes are in fact complexes of stars, clusters and gas clouds; term "star complexes" was introduced as general one disregarding the preferential content of a complex. Generally the high rate of star formation in a complex is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Efremov

Throughout the Milky Way, molecular clouds typically appear filamentary, and mounting evidence indicates that this morphology plays an important role in star formation. What is not known is to what extent the dense filaments most closely…

We analyze the effect of companion stars on the bulk density of 29 planets orbiting 15 stars in the Kepler field. These stars have at least one stellar companion within 2", and the planets have measured masses and radii, allowing an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 E. Furlan , S. B. Howell