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Most stars in galactic disks are believed to be born as a member of star clusters or associations. Star clusters formed in disks are disrupted due to the tidal stripping and the evolution of star clusters themselves, and as a results new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 M. S. Fujii , J. Baba

Interacting galaxies favor the formation of star clusters but are also suspected to affect their evolution through an intense and rapidly varying tidal field. Treating this complex behaviour remains out-of-reach of (semi-)analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Florent Renaud , Mark Gieles

We use direct $N$-body calculations to investigate the impact of primordial mass segregation on the size scale and mass-loss rate of star clusters in a galactic tidal field. We run a set of simulations of clusters with varying degrees of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Hosein Haghi , Seyed Mohammad Hoseini-Rad , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Andreas H. W. Kuepper

We present detailed numerical simulations of the evolution of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) after they kinematically decouple from the rest of the tidal arm to investigate their survivability. Both the short-term (500 Myr) response of TDGs to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Sylvia Ploeckinger , Simone Recchi , Gerhard Hensler , Pavel Kroupa

Most of the dynamical mass loss from star clusters is thought to be caused by the time-variability of the tidal field (``tidal shocks''). Systematic studies of tidal shocks have been hampered by the fact that each tidal history is unique,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-23 Jeremy J. Webb , Marta Reina-Campos , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

Star clusters are subject to density irregularities in their host galaxy, such as giant molecular clouds (GMCs), the galactic disc and spiral arms, which are largely ignored in present day (N-body) simulations of cluster evolution. Time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gieles

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

This is the second in a series of papers presenting the results of fully general relativistic simulations of stellar tidal disruptions in which the stars' initial states are realistic main-sequence models. We consider eight different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-14 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble

The disruptive effect of galactic tides is a textbook example of gravitational dynamics. However, depending on the shape of the potential, tides can also become fully compressive. When that is the case, they might trigger or strengthen the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Florent Renaud , Christian Boily , Thorsten Naab , Christian Theis

We illuminate the altered evolution of galaxies in clusters compared to the field by tracking galaxies in the IllustrisTNG300 simulation as they enter isolated clusters of mass $10^{13} < M_{\rm 200, mean} / {\rm M}_\odot < 10^{15}$ (at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-30 Stephanie O'Neil , Josh Borrow , Mark Vogelsberger , Hanzhang Zhao , Bing Wang

We investigate the evolution of initial fractal clusters at 3 kpc from the Galactic Center (GC) of the Milky Way and show how red supergiant clusters (RSGCs)-like objects, which are considered to be the result of active star formation in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-23 So-Myoung Park , Jihye Shin , Sang-Hyun Chun , Simon P. Goodwin , Kyungwon Chun , Sungsoo S. Kim

We present a novel and flexible tensor approach to computing the effect of a time-dependent tidal field acting on a stellar system. The tidal forces are recovered from the tensor by polynomial interpolation in time. The method has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Florent Renaud , Mark Gieles , Christian Boily

The dynamical evolution of stellar clusters is driven to a large extent by their environment. Several studies so far have considered the effect of tidal fields and their variations, such as, e.g., from giant molecular clouds, galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 I. Berentzen , E. Athanassoula

We show that dynamical evolution in a strong (Galactic Centre-like) tidal field can create clusters that would appear to have very top-heavy IMFs. The tidal disruption of single star forming events can leave several bound `clusters' spread…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 So-Myoung Park , Simon P. Goodwin , Sungsoo S. Kim

Context. Many Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) host multiple stellar populations, challenging the traditional view of GCs as single-population systems. It has been suggested that second-generation stars could form in a disk from gas lost…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Peter Berczik , Taras Panamarev , Maryna Ishchenko , Bence Kocsis

Young stars form in clusters within molecular clouds, but older stars are evenly distributed across the galactic disk, necessitating an explanation for cluster dissolution. We analytically study tidal forces from cold molecular clouds as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Xiao-Tong Chen , Guang-Xing Li

The age distributions of stellar cluster populations have long been proposed to probe the recent formation history of the host galaxy. However, progress is hampered by the limited understanding of cluster disruption by evaporation and tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Meghan Miholics , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Alison Sills

The accretion of massive star clusters via dynamical friction has previously been established to be a likely scenario for the build up of nuclear stellar clusters (NSCs). A remaining issue is whether strong external tidal perturbation may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Long Wang , D. N. C. Lin

Understanding the evolution of stellar clusters in an evolving tidal field is critical for studying the disruption of stellar clusters in a cosmological context. We systematically characterise the response of stellar clusters to tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Jeremy J. Webb , Marta Reina-Campos , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We investigate the long-term dynamical evolution of star clusters in a steady tidal field produced by its parent galaxy. In this paper, we focus on the influence of mass profile of the parent galaxy. The previous studies were done with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Ataru Tanikawa , Toshiyuki Fukushige