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The structure and evolution of the spiral arms of our Milky Way are basic but long-standing questions in astronomy. In particular, the lifetime of spiral arms is still a puzzle and has not been well constrained from observations. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , L. G. Hou , S. B. Bian , J. J. Li , Z. Y. Wu , Z. H. He , Y. J. Li , D. J. Liu

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

Star clusters - open and globulars - experience dynamical evolution on time scales shorter than their age. Consequently, open and globular clusters provide us with unique dynamical laboratories for learning about two-body relaxation, mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georges Meylan

We examine the effects of gas-expulsion on initially substructured distributions of stars. We perform N-body simulations of the evolution of these distributions in a static background potential to mimic the gas. We remove the static…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-13 J. P. Farias , R. Smith , M. Fellhauer , S. Goodwin , G. N. Candlish , M. Blaña , R. Dominguez

Using the Gaia DR3 open cluster catalog, we identified the most massive star in each observed cluster. Examining the m_max$-$M_cluster relations across different age ranges, we find that as clusters age, the relation gradually deviates from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 J. W. Zhou , Sami Dib , Pavel Kroupa

Mass segregation is seen in many star clusters, but whether massive stars form in the center of a cluster or migrate there dynamically is still debated. N-body simulations have shown that early dynamical mass segregation is possible when…

The clustered nature of star formation should produce a high degree of structure in the combined phase and chemical space in the Galactic disk. To date, observed structure of this kind has been mostly limited to bound clusters and moving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Harshil Kamdar , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting , Ana Bonaca , Benjamin Johnson , Phillip Cargile

We investigate the formation of protostellar clusters during the collapse of dense molecular cloud cores with a focus on the evolution of potential and kinetic energy, the degree of substructure, and the early phase of mass segregation. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Federrath , Richard Allison , Robi Banerjee , Ralf Klessen

Star clusters are crucial for understanding how stars evolve. Their colour-magnitude diagrams show the effects of stellar evolution of approximately coeval objects with the same chemical composition. Furthermore, the determination of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 F. A. Ferreira , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , M. S. Angelo , F. F. S. Maia

In this paper we use N-body simulations to study the effects of primordial mass segregation on the early and long-term evolution of star clusters. Our simulations show that in segregated clusters early mass loss due to stellar evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Enrico Vesperini , Stephen L. W. McMillan , Simon Portegies Zwart

Aims. The aim of this work is to study the dynamical effects of the Galaxy on binary star systems with physical and orbital charac- teristics similar to those of the population of known wide binary stars with exoplanets. As secondary goal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. A. Correa-Otto , R. A. Gil-Hutton

We present a systematic investigation of 1,481 Galactic open clusters (OCs) through the application of the Limepy dynamical model, from which we derive the fundamental structural parameters of OCs. We conduct the statistical analyses on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin-Sheng Qiu , Zhen Wan , Xu-Zhi Li , Qing-Feng Zhu , Lu-lu Fan , Xiao-Hui Xu , Jun-Han Zhao , Zhi-Yong Pu

Open clusters(OCs) are usually young and suitable for studying the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Hitherto, only four planets have been found with radial velocity measurements in OCs. Meanwhile, a lot of free-floating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Hui-Gen Liu , Hui Zhang , Ji-Lin Zhou

The binary fraction in young open clusters exceeds that of field stars, making the study of binary dynamical evolution in clusters essential for understanding the origins and evolution of field binaries. Using N-body simulations based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Zepeng Zheng , Long Wang , Holger Baumgardt

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 stellar-dynamical evolution of bound star clusters during the first few Myr is dominated by binary-binary and binary-star interactions, the rapid sinking of the most massive stars to the centre of the clusters and mass loss from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Kroupa

Fragmentation and fission of giant molecular clouds occasionally results in a pair of gravitationally bound star clusters that orbit their mutual centre of mass for some time, under the influence of internal and external perturbations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 R. Priyatikanto , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , M. I. Arifyanto , H. R. T. Wulandari , S. Siregar

Most stars form in compact, dense embedded clusters with memberships ranging from a dozen stars to many millions of stars. Embedded clusters containing more than a few hundred stars also contain O stars that disrupt the nebula abruptly.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Kroupa

We investigate the occurrence of classical (type-I) Cepheid variable stars (henceforth: Cepheids) in dynamically evolving star clusters from birth to an age of approximately 300 Myr. The clusters are modelled by the Aarseth code nbody6, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-23 František Dinnbier , Richard I. Anderson , Pavel Kroupa

We explore the morphological and dynamical evolution of galaxy clusters in simulations using scalar and vector-valued Minkowski valuations and the concept of fundamental plane relations. In this context, three questions are of fundamental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 C. Beisbart , R. Valdarnini , T. Buchert