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We review recent work that investigates the formation of stellar clusters, ranging in scale from globular clusters through open clusters to the small scale aggregates of stars observed in T associations. In all cases, recent advances in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cathie J. Clarke , Ian A. Bonnell , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

We use simple analytic reasoning to identify physical processes that drive the evolution of the cosmic star formation density in cold dark matter universes. Based on our analysis, we formulate a model to characterise the redshift dependence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Lars Hernquist , Volker Springel

The formation of stars is a key process in astrophysics. Detailed knowledge of the physical mechanisms that govern stellar birth is a prerequisite for understanding the formation and evolution of our galactic home, the Milky Way. A theory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-07 Ralf S. Klessen , Mark R. Krumholz , Fabian Heitsch

Observations have revealed that most stars are born in clusters. These systems, containing from tens to thousands of stars and typically significant mass in gas in the youngest systems, evolve due to a combination of stellar and star-gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian A. Bonnell

Dynamical evolution of stellar mass distribution in star clusters is analysed by considering simultaneously the effects of dynamical friction, stochastic heating and the gravitational potential due to mass distribution in the clusters. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chatterjee , Brijesh Kumar , Ram Sagar

We use kinetic theory in order to study the role of quantum fluctuations in the isotropization of the pressure tensor in a system subject to fast longitudinal expansion, such as the matter produced in the early stages of a heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Francois Gelis

We present a new way of quantum kinetic equation derivation. This method appears as a natural generalization of the many-particle quantum hydrodynamic method. Kinetic equations are derived for different system of particles. First of all we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Pavel A. Andreev

What is the origin of the numerous population of diffuse elliptical galaxies (dE) in clusters? These galaxies formed their stars several billion years ago and lost their gas. Though the stellar winds resulting from star formation and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Philippe Prugniel , Igor Chilingarian , Olga Sil'chenko , Victor Afanasiev

We investigate the stellar kinematics of a sample of galaxies extracted from the hydrodynamic cosmological Magneticum Pathfinder simulations out to $5$ half-mass radii. We construct differential radial stellar spin profiles quantified by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Felix Schulze , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Klaus Dolag , Sabine Bellstedt , Andreas Burkert , Duncan A. Forbes

We complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of systems with long-range interactions. Starting from the BBGKY hierarchy, or using projection operator technics or a quasilinear theory, a general kinetic equation can be derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Multiple systems play an important role in the evolution of star clusters. First we discuss several formation mechanisms which depend on the presence of binaries, either primordial or of dynamical origin. Hierarchical configurations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sverre J. Aarseth , Rosemary A. Mardling

Planet formation in the solar system was started when the first planetesimals were formed from the gravitational collapse of pebble clouds. Numerical simulations of this process, especially in the framework of streaming instability, produce…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Jiahan Shi , Matthias Bartelmann , Hubert Klahr , Cornelis P. Dullemond

The kinetic mechanisms underlying bottom-up assembly of colloidal particles have been widely investigated in efforts to control crystallization pathways and to direct growth into targeted superstructures for applications including photonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-28 Xian-Qi Xu , Brian B. Laird , Jeffrey J. Hoyt , Mark Asta , Yang Yang

Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is a benchmark for understanding disk galaxies. It is the only galaxy whose formation history can be studied using the full distribution of stars from white dwarfs to supergiants. The oldest components provide us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-06 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Ortwin Gerhard

Dense stellar clusters are natural sites for the origin and evolution of exotic objects such as relativistic binaries (potential gravitational wave sources), blue stragglers, etc. We investigate the secular dynamics of a binary system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Chris Hamilton , Roman R. Rafikov

In this paper the recent interaction model over post-Newtonian theory of gravity has been used to study the stellar dynamics. It implies space time fabric that built over the massive object gets perturbed or literally contracted in presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Shubhen Biswas

Galaxies are faint enough when one observes just their light distributions, but in studying their full dynamical structure the stars are spread over the six dimensions of phase space rather than just the three spatial dimensions, making…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael R. Merrifield , the PN. S Consortium

Many features of real granular fluids under rapid flow are exhibited as well by a system of smooth hard spheres with inelastic collisions. For such a system, it is tempting to apply standard methods of kinetic theory and hydrodynamics to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 James W. Dufty

The evolution of star clusters is determined by several internal and external processes. Here we focus on two dominant internal effects, namely energy exchange between stars through close encounters (two-body relaxation) and mass-loss of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-24 Mark Gieles

The article provides an overview of some advances in the mathematical understanding of the nature of the kinetic equations of quantum systems of many particles. The fundamental equations of modern mathematical physics are studied, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 V. I. Gerasimenko