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Two-body relaxation times of nuclear star clusters are short enough that gravitational encounters should substantially affect their structure in 10 Gyr or less. In nuclear star clusters without massive black holes, dynamical evolution is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Merritt

The expulsion of the unconverted gas at the end of the star formation process potentially leads to the expansion of the just formed stellar cluster and membership loss. The degree of expansion and mass loss depends largely on the star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Susanne Pfalzner , Thomas Kaczmarek

Most massive galaxies host a supermassive black hole at their centre. Matter accretion creates an active galactic nucleus (AGN), forming a relativistic particle wind. The wind heats and pushes the interstellar medium, producing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Martynas Laužikas , Kastytis Zubovas

Stars form within dense cores composed of both gas and dust within molecular clouds. However, despite the crucial role that dust plays in the star formation process, its dynamics is frequently overlooked, with the common assumption being a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-21 Nadine H. Soliman , Philip F. Hopkins , Michael Y. Grudić

The formation and evolution of young star clusters and OB associations is fundamental to our understanding of the star formation process, the conditions faced by young binary and planetary systems, and the formation of long-lived open and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Nicholas J. Wright

The effect of gas ejection on the structure and binding energy of newly formed stellar clusters is investigated. The star formation efficiency (SFE), necessary for forming a gravitationally bound stellar cluster, is determined. Two sets of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michael P. Geyer , Andreas Burkert

During star cluster formation, ongoing mass accretion is resisted by stellar feedback in the form of protostellar outflows from the low-mass stars and photo-ionization and radiation pressure feedback from the massive stars. We model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Christopher D. Matzner , Peter H. Jumper

Both simulations and observations indicate that stars form in filamentary, hierarchically clustered associations, most of which disperse into their galactic field once feedback destroys their parent clouds. However, during their early…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan M. Craig , Mark R. Krumholz

As mature neutron stars are cold (on the relevant temperature scale), one has to carefully consider the state of matter in their interior. The outer kilometer or so is expected to freeze to form an elastic crust of increasingly neutron-rich…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-19 N. Andersson

Stellar encounters potentially affect the evolution of the protoplanetary discs in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). However, the role of encounters in other cluster environments is less known. We investigate the effect of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Olczak , S. Pfalzner , A. Eckart

This paper investigates the dynamical evolution of embedded stellar clusters from the protocluster stage, through the embedded star-forming phase, and out to ages of 10 Myr -- after the gas has been removed from the cluster. The relevant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Eva-Marie Proszkow , Fred C. Adams

Star clusters are observed to form in a highly compact state and with low star-formation efficiencies. If the residual gas is expelled on a dynamical time the clusters disrupt thereby (i) feeding a hot kinematical stellar component into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Kroupa

We investigate the early evolution of two distinct populations of low-mass stars in globular clusters under the influence of primordial gas expulsion driven by supernovae to study if this process can increase the fraction of second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Decressin , H. Baumgardt , C. Charbonnel , P. Kroupa

Because of their low gravitational energies dwarf galaxies are greatly exposed to energetical influences by the interstellar medium, like e.g.\ stellar radiation, winds or explosions, or by their environment. While the metallicity depletion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Hensler , A. Rieschick

Galaxy-scale outflows of gas, or galactic winds (GWs), driven by energy from star formation are a pivotal mechanism for regulation of star formation in the current model of galaxy evolution. Observations of this phenomenon have proliferated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-14 David S. N. Rupke

Gas blown away from galactic disks by supernova (SN) feedback plays a key role in galaxy evolution. We investigate outflows utilizing the solar neighborhood model of our high-resolution, local galactic disk simulation suite, TIGRESS. In our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Observations of early-type dwarf galaxies in clusters often show that cluster dwarf members have significantly higher velocities and less symmetric distributions than cluster giant ellipticals, suggesting that these dwarfs are recently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Rukmani Vijayaraghavan , John S. Gallagher , Paul M. Ricker

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 investigate the dynamical evolution of a star cluster in an external tidal field by using N-body simulations, with focus on the effects of the presence or absence of neutron star natal velocity kicks.We show that, even if neutron stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Filippo Contenta , Anna Lisa Varri , Douglas C. Heggie

Many clusters of galaxies contain an appreciable amount of hot gas, the intracluster medium. As a consequence, gas will be stripped from galaxies that move through the inter cluster medium, if the ram pressure exceeds the internal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Masao Mori , Andreas Burkert