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Most formation scenarios of globular clusters assume a molecular cloud as the progenitor of the stellar system. However, it is still unclear, how this cloud is transformed into a star cluster, i.e. how the destructive processes related to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Theis

Compact Groups (CGs) of galaxies are dense systems where projected separations are comparable to their optical diameters. A subset - non-isolated CGs - are embedded within major structures. Using multi-band S-PLUS data, we analyse galaxies…

We quantify the structure of a very large number of Galactic open clusters and look for evidence of mass segregation for the most massive stars in the clusters. We characterise the structure and mass segregation ratios of 1276 clusters in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-30 Sami Dib , Stefan Schmeja , Richard J. Parker

This paper discusses a new method to generate self-coherent initial conditions for young substructured stellar cluster. The expansion of a uniform system allows stellar sub-structures (clumps) to grow from fragmentation modes by adiabatic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Julien Dorval , Christian M. Boily , Estelle Moraux , Thomas Maschberger , Christophe Becker

We discuss the mechanism of cluster formation in hierarchically collapsing molecular clouds. Recent evidence, both observational and numerical, suggests that molecular clouds (MCs) may be undergoing global, hierarchical gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Alejandro Gonzalez-Samaniego , Manuel Zamora-Aviles , Pedro Colin

Compact star-forming clumps observed in distant galaxies are often suggested to play a crucial role in galaxy assembly. In this paper, we use a novel approach of applying finite resolution deconvolution on ground-based images of the COSMOS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 Visal Sok , Adam Muzzin , Pascale Jablonka , Z. Cemile Marsan , Vivian Tan , Leo Alcorn , Danilo Marchesini , Mauro Stefanon

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…

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 investigate the long-term dynamical evolution of two distinct stellar populations of low-mass stars in globular clusters in order to study whether the energy equipartition process can explain the high number of stars harbouring abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Decressin , H. Baumgardt , P. Kroupa

We describe the results of observations of galaxy clusters conducted with ISOCAM on-board the Infrared Space Observatory. Our research is aimed at understanding the processes driving galaxy evolution in dense environments, free from the…

Cosmological simulations of structure formation predict that galaxies are dramatically modified by galaxy harassment during the assembly of galaxy clusters, losing a substantial fraction of their stellar mass which today must be in the form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Magda Arnaboldi

We investigate the evolution, following gas dispersal, of a star cluster produced from a hydrodynamical calculation. We find that when the gas, initially comprising 60% of the mass, is removed, the system settles into a bound cluster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nickolas Moeckel , Matthew R. Bate

Using the apparatus of correlation Gamma-function (``conditional density''), we have analyzed spatial clustering of objects from several different samples of galaxies, clusters and superclusters. On small scales the distribution of objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Tikhonov , D. I. Makarov , A. I. Kopylov

We estimate the distribution of intrinsic shapes of the APM galaxy clusters from their corresponding distribution of projected shapes. We smooth the discrete galaxy distribution and define the cluster shape by fitting the best ellipse to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Spyros Basilakos , Manolis Plionis , Steve Maddox

We present a novel approach to the riddle of star cluster multiple populations. Stars form from molecular cores. But not all cores form stars. Following their initial compression, such 'failed' cores re-expand, rather than collapsing. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 G. Parmentier , A. Pasquali

We present X-ray and spectroscopic confirmation of a cluster assembling from multiple, distinct galaxy groups at z=0.371. Initially detected in the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey, the structure contains at least four X-ray detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony H. Gonzalez , Kim-Vy H. Tran , Michelle N. Conbere , Dennis Zaritsky

We take advantage of the largest high-resolution simulation of cosmic structure growth ever carried out -- the Millennium Simulation of the concordance LambdaCDM cosmogony -- to study how the star formation histories, ages and metallicities…

Recent observations indicate that the progenitors of globular clusters (GCs) at high redshifts had high average stellar surface densities above $10^5\, \mathrm{M}_\odot\, \mathrm{pc}^{-2}$. The internal structure and kinematics of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 Natalia Lahén , Thorsten Naab , Antti Rantala , Christian Partmann

We investigate the long-term dynamical evolution of the internal kinematics of multimass rotating star clusters. We have performed a set of N-body simulations to follow the internal evolution of clusters with different degrees of initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Alexander R. Livernois , Enrico Vesperini , Anna Lisa Varri , Jongsuk Hong , Maria Tiongco

Stellar clusters are born in cold and dusty molecular clouds and the youngest clusters are embedded to various degrees in dusty dark molecular material. Such embedded clusters can be considered protocluster systems. The most deeply buried…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Charles J. Lada