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Galactic nuclei and globular clusters act as laboratories in which nature experiments with normal stars, neutron stars and black holes, through collisions and through the formation of bound states, in the form of binaries. The main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut

Context. Machine-Learning (ML) solves problems by learning patterns from data, with limited or no human guidance. In Astronomy, it is mainly applied to large observational datasets, e.g. for morphological galaxy classification. Aims. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Mario Pasquato , Chul Chung

We investigate the dissolution process of young embedded star clusters with different primordial mass segregation levels using fractal distributions by means of N-body simulations. We combine several star clusters in virial and subvirial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 R. Domínguez , J. P. Farias , M. Fellhauer , Ralf S. Klessen

We review the numerical techniques for ideal and non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) used in the context of star formation simulations. We outline the specific challenges offered by modeling star forming environments, which are dominated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Romain Teyssier , Benoit Commercon

An overview over the current status of modeling galaxies by means of numerical simulations is given. After a short description of how galaxies form in hierarchically clustering scenarios, success and failures of current simulations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

Modern hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation are able to predict accurately the rates and locations of the assembly of giant molecular clouds in early galaxies. These clouds could host star clusters with the masses and sizes of real…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Oleg Y. Gnedin

Large-scale structure of Universe includes galaxy clusters connected by filaments. Voids occupy the rest of cosmic volume. The search of any dependencities in filament structure can give answer to more general questions about origin of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. V. Voitsekhovskiy , A. V. Tugay

Most stars form in highly clustered environments within molecular clouds, but eventually disperse into the distributed stellar field population. Exactly how the stellar distribution evolves from the embedded stage into gas-free associations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-21 Juan P. Farias , Stella S. R. Offner , Michael Y. Grudić , Dávid Guszejnov , Anna L. Rosen

The physical conditions in molecular clouds control the nature and rate of star formation, with consequences for planet formation and galaxy evolution. The focus of this review is on the conditions that characterize regions of star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Neal J. Evans

State-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation have reached the point at which their outcomes result in galaxies with ever more realism. Still, the employed sub-grid models include several free parameters such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-17 Tobias Buck , Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Macciò

The degree of complexity and, to a somewhat lesser degree, realism in simulations has advanced rapidly in the past few years. The simplest approach - modeling a cluster as collisionless dark matter and collisonal, non--radiative gas is now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 August E. Evrard

We present a new geometrical method aimed at determining the members of open clusters. The methodology estimates, in an N-dimensional space, the membership probabilities by means of the distances between every star and the cluster central…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Laura Sampedro , Emilio J. Alfaro

Cosmological N-Body simulations have become an essential tool for studying formation of large scale structure. These simulations are computationally challenging even though the available computing power gets better every year. A number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bagla

To date, most numerical simulations of molecular clouds, and star formation within them, assume a uniform density sphere or box with an imposed turbulent velocity field. In this work, we select molecular clouds from galactic scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Ramon Rey-Raposo , Clare Dobbs , Ana Duarte-Cabral

The mass accretion rate of galaxy clusters is a key factor in determining their structure, but a reliable observational tracer has yet to be established. We present a state-of-the-art machine learning model for constraining the mass…

We investigate the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) that forms within N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in a \LambdaCDM cosmology. When radiative cooling and a simple model for galactic feedback are included,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas , Adrian Jenkins , Frazer R. Pearce

A revision of Stod\{'o}{\l}kiewicz's Monte Carlo code is used to simulate evolution of large star clusters. A survey of the evolution of N-body systems influenced by the tidal field of a parent galaxy and by stellar evolution is presented.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mirek Giersz

The fundamental properties of stellar clusters, such as the age or the total initial mass in stars, are often inferred from population synthesis models. The predicted properties are then used to constrain the physical mechanisms involved in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 M. Cervino , D. Valls-Gabaud

In spite of significant recent and ongoing research efforts, most of the early evolution and long-term fate of young massive star clusters remain clouded in uncertainties. Here, I discuss our understanding of the initial conditions of star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Richard de Grijs

The clustering algorithms that view each object data as a single sample drawn from a certain distribution, Gaussian distribution, for example, has been a hot topic for decades. Many clustering algorithms: such as k-means and spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Xiang Wang , Tie Liu