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Using radiation-hydrodynamic cosmological simulations, we present a detailed ($0.1$ pc resolution), physically motivated portrait of a typical-mass dwarf galaxy before the epoch of reionization, resolving the formation and evolution of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Fred Angelo Batan Garcia , Massimo Ricotti , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Jongwon Park

In this paper, we consider how gas damping affects the dynamical evolution of gas-embedded star clusters. Using a simple three-component (i.e. one gas and two stellar components) model, we compare the rates of mass segregation due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathan W. C. Leigh , Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti , Hagai B. Perets , Torsten Boeker

Star clusters are often used as tracers of major star formation events in external galaxies as they can be studied up to much larger distances than individual stars. It is vital to understand their evolution if they are used to derive, for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Gieles

A number of recent observational studies of Galactic globular clusters have measured the variation in the slope of a cluster's stellar mass function $\alpha$ with clustercentric distance $r$. In order to gather a deeper understanding of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Jeremy J. Webb , Enrico Vesperini

The study of the internal structure of star clusters provides important clues concerning their formation mechanism and dynamical evolution. There are both observational and numerical evidences indicating that open clusters evolve from an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-15 Emilio Alfaro , Nestor Sanchez

The young star clusters we observe today are the building blocks of a new generation of stars and planets in our Galaxy and beyond. Despite their fundamental role we still lack knowledge about the conditions under which star clusters form…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 C. Olczak , R. Spurzem , Th. Henning , T. Kaczmarek , S. Pfalzner , S. Harfst , S. Portegies Zwart

We study the origin of misalignments between the stellar and star-forming gas components of simulated galaxies in the EAGLE simulations. We focus on galaxies with stellar masses $\geq 10^9$ M$_\odot$ at 0$\leq$z$\leq$1. We compare the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-07 Catalina I. Casanueva , Claudia del P. Lagos , Nelson D. Padilla , Thomas A. Davison

The past few years have seen dramatic improvements in the scope and realism of star cluster simulations. Accurate treatments of stellar evolution, coupled with robust descriptions of all phases of binary evolution, have been incorporated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen L. W. McMillan

We present a suite of three-dimensional, high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations that follow the evolution of a massive (10^7 M_sun) pressure confined, star-forming neutral gas cloud moving through a hot intra-cluster medium (ICM). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Francesco Calura , Michele Bellazzini , Annibale D'Ercole

Magnetic stresses collimate protostellar winds into a common distribution of force with angle. Sweeping into the ambient medium, such winds drive bipolar molecular outflows whose properties are insensitive to the distribution of ambient gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher D. Matzner

The empirical laws of star formation suggest that galactic-scale gravity is involved, but they do not identify the actual triggering mechanisms for clusters in the final stages. Many other triggering processes satisfy the empirical laws…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce G. Elmegreen

We introduce the MOdelling Star cluster population Assembly In Cosmological Simulations within EAGLE (E-MOSAICS) project. E-MOSAICS incorporates models describing the formation, evolution and disruption of star clusters into the EAGLE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Joel Pfeffer , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Robert A. Crain , Nate Bastian

Observations of the nearby large galaxies that can be examined in particularly close detail suggest that many have small stellar luminosity fractions in bulges and haloes. Simulations of galaxy formation tend to produce considerably larger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 P. J. E. Peebles

We investigate the evolution of galaxy masses and star formation rates in the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environment (EAGLE) simulations. These comprise a suite of hydrodynamical simulations in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmogony…

The spatial morphology and dynamical status of a young, still-forming stellar cluster provide valuable clues on the conditions during the star formation event and the processes that regulated it. We analyze the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicola Da Rio , Jonathan C. Tan , Karl Jaehnig

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

Understanding the formation of stellar clusters requires following the interplay between gas and newly formed stars accurately. We therefore couple the magnetohydrodynamics code FLASH to the N-body code ph4 and the stellar evolution code…

We present radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star formation in self-gravitating, turbulent molecular clouds, modeling the formation of individual massive stars, including their UV radiation feedback. The set of simulations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-30 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti , Sam Geen

Some globular clusters are observed to host a population of second generation (SG) stars which show chemical anomalies and must have formed from gas containing matter processed in the envelopes of first generation (FG) cluster stars. We…

Open and globular star clusters have served as benchmarks for the study of stellar evolution due to their supposed nature as simple stellar populations of the same age and metallicity. After a brief review of some of the pioneering work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Jason S. Kalirai , Harvey B. Richer