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We investigate giant molecular cloud (GMCs) collisions and their ability to induce gravitational instability and thus star formation. This mechanism may be a major driver of star formation activity in galactic disks. We carry out a series…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Fumitaka Nakamura , Sven Van Loo , Duncan Christie , David Collins

We utilize magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to develop a numerical model for GMC-GMC collisions between nearly magnetically critical clouds. The goal is to determine if, and under what circumstances, cloud collisions can cause…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Benjamin Wu , Sven Van Loo , Jonathan C. Tan , Simon Bruderer

Compression in giant molecular cloud (GMC) collisions is a promising mechanism to trigger formation of massive star clusters and OB associations. We simulate colliding and non-colliding magnetised GMCs and examine the properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Chia-Jung Hsu , Jonathan C. Tan , Duncan Christie , Yu Cheng , Theo J. O'Neill

We study giant molecular cloud (GMC) collisions and their ability to trigger star cluster formation. We further develop our three dimensional magnetized, turbulent, colliding GMC simulations by implementing star formation sub-grid models.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Duncan Christie , Fumitaka Nakamura , Sven Van Loo , David Collins

We investigate the formation of stars within giant molecular clouds (GMCs) evolving in environments of different global magnetic field strength and large-scale dynamics. Building upon a series of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Duncan Christie , Fumitaka Nakamura

Collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are one of the pathways for massive star formation, due to the high densities created. However the enhancement of the star formation rate (SFR) is not well constrained. In this study we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-13 Glen H. Hunter , Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

Dense, star-forming gas is believed to form at the stagnation points of large-scale ISM flows, but observational examples of this process in action are rare. We here present a giant molecular cloud (GMC) sandwiched between two colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. R. Dawson , E. Ntormousi , Y. Fukui , T. Hayakawa , K. Fierlinger

We investigate the role of ambipolar diffusion (AD) in collisions between magnetized giant molecular clouds (GMCs), which may be an important mechanism for triggering star cluster formation. Three dimensional simulations of GMC collisions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Duncan Christie , Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan

We present calculations of molecular, atomic and ionic line emission from simulations of giant molecular cloud (GMC) collisions. We post-process snapshots of the magneto-hydrodynamical simulations presented in an earlier paper in this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 Thomas G. Bisbas , Kei E. I. Tanaka , Jonathan C. Tan , Benjamin Wu , Fumitaka Nakamura

We investigate collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) as potential generators of their internal turbulence. Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of self-gravitating, magnetized, turbulent, GMCs, we compare kinematic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Fumitaka Nakamura , Duncan Christie , Qi Li

We first present chemodynamical simulations to investigate how stellar winds of massive stars influence early dynamical and chemical evolution of forming globular clusters (GCs). In our numerical models, GCs form in turbulent,high-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

We performed sub-parsec (~0.06pc) scale simulations of two idealised molecular clouds with different masses undergoing a collision. Gas clumps with density greater than 1e-20 g/cm3 (0.3e4 cm-3) were identified as pre-stellar cores and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Ken Takahira , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Asao Habe

Massive stars (M $\gsim 10$ \msun) form from collapse of parsec-scale molecular clumps. How molecular clumps fragment to give rise to massive stars in a cluster with a distribution of masses is unclear. We search for cold cores that may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Qizhou Zhang , Ke Wang

We study effect of magnetic field on massive dense core formation in colliding unequal molecular clouds by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations with sub-parsec resolution (0.015 pc) that can resolve the molecular cores. Initial clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto

We numerically investigate dynamical and chemical properties of star clusters (open and globular clusters, and ``super star clusters'', SSC) formed in interacting/merging galaxies. The investigation is two-fold: (1) large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenji Bekki

We performed sub-parsec ($\sim$ 0.014 pc) scale simulations of cloud-cloud collisions of two idealized turbulent molecular clouds (MCs) with different masses in the range of $0.76 - 2.67 \times 10^4$M$_{\odot}$ and with collision speeds of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-15 Ken Takahira , Kazuhiro Shima , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Asao Habe

Cloud-cloud collisions (CCCs) are expected to compress gas and trigger star formation. However, it is not well understood how the collisions and the induced star formation affect galactic-scale properties. By developing an on-the-fly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-11 Shu Horie , Takashi Okamoto , Asao Habe

We study the encounters between stars clusters and giant molecular clouds (GMCs). The effect of these encounters has previously been studied analytically for two cases: 1) head-on encounters, for which the cluster moves through the centre…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Gieles , S. F. Portegies Zwart , E. Athanassoula

We present hydrodynamic simulations of self-gravitating dense gas in a galactic disk, exploring scales ranging from 1 kpc down to $\sim 0.1$~pc. Our primary goal is to understand how dense filaments form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Sven Van Loo

Star formation in high-redshift dwarf galaxies is a key to understand early galaxy evolution in the early Universe. Using the three-dimensional hydrodynamics code GIZMO, we study the formation mechanism of cold, high-density gas clouds in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Shohei Arata , Hidenobu Yajima , Kentaro Nagamine
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