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Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) are amongst the densest stellar systems in the Universe and are found at the centres of many bright spiral and elliptical galaxies, and up to ${\sim}$40% of dwarf galaxies. However, their formation mechanisms,…

Using radiation-hydrodynamic cosmological simulations, we present a detailed ($0.1$ pc resolution), physically motivated portrait of a typical-mass dwarf galaxy before the epoch of reionization, resolving the formation and evolution of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Fred Angelo Batan Garcia , Massimo Ricotti , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Jongwon Park

To study the formation of star clusters and their properties in a dwarf-dwarf merging galaxy, we have performed a numerical simulation of a dwarf-dwarf galaxy merger by using the Tree+GRAPE $N$-body/SPH code ASURA. In our simulation, 13…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-23 Hidenori Matsui , Kenji Bekki , Madeleine McKenzie , Takayuki R. Saitoh

We study star cluster formation in various environments with different metallicities and column densities by performing a suite of three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations. We find that the photoionization feedback from massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-25 Hajime Fukushima , Hidenobu Yajima , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Photometrically distinct nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are common in late-type-disk and spheroidal galaxies. The formation of NSCs is inevitable in the context of normal star formation in which a majority of stars form in clusters. A young,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Meghann Agarwal , Milos Milosavljevic

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive star clusters found in all types of galaxies from dwarfs to massive galaxies. Recent studies show that while low-mass NSCs in dwarf galaxies ($M_\text{gal} < 10^{9} M_\odot$) form predominantly out…

Clues to the formation and evolution of Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) lie in their stellar populations. However, these structures are often very faint compared to their host galaxy, and spectroscopic analysis of NSCs is hampered by…

We investigate the dynamical evolution of star clusters during their formation, assuming that they are born from a turbulent starless clump of a given mass that is embedded within a parent self-gravitating molecular cloud characterized by a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Juan P. Farias , Jonathan C. Tan , Sourav Chatterjee

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

We investigate the formation and early evolution of star clusters assuming that they form from a turbulent starless clump of given mass bounded inside a parent self-gravitating molecular cloud characterized by a particular mass surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Juan P. Farias , Jonathan C. Tan , Sourav Chatterjee

We simulate the formation of a low metallicity (0.01 Zsun) stellar cluster in a dwarf galaxy at redshift z~14. Beginning with cosmological initial conditions, the simulation utilizes adaptive mesh refinement and sink particles to follow the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Chalence Safranek-Shrader , Michael Montgomery , Milos Milosavljevic , Volker Bromm

We present numerical simulations to describe the nucleosynthesis and evolution of pre-Galactic clouds in a model which is motivated by cold dark matter simulations of hierarchical galaxy formation. We adopt a SN-induced star-formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Saleh , T. C. Beers , G. J. Mathews

We show that the termination of the star formation process by winds from massive stars in protocluster forming clumps imposes dual constraints on the star formation efficiencies (SFEs) and stellar age spreads ($\Delta \tau_{*}$) in stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Sami Dib , Julia Gutkin , Wolfgang Brandner , Shantanu Basu

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems in the Universe and are found in the centres of all types of galaxies. They are thought to form via mergers of star clusters such as ancient globular clusters (GCs) that spiral to…

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems in the Universe. They can be found at the center of all galaxy types, but tend to favor galaxies of intermediate stellar mass around 10$^9\,$M$_{\odot}$[1, 2]. Currently, two main…

Numerical simulations predict that clumps ($\sim$1 pc) should form stars at high efficiency to produce bound star clusters. We conducted a statistical study of 17 nearby cluster-forming clumps to examine the star formation rate and gas mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-16 V. Rawat , M. R. Samal , A. Zavagno , Sami Dib , Davide Elia , J. Jose , D. K. Ojha , K. Srivastav1

We use the Arepo moving mesh code to simulate the evolution of molecular clouds exposed to a harsh environment similar to that found in the galactic center (GC), in an effort to understand why the star formation efficiency (SFE) of clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Erik Bertram , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Ralf S. Klessen

After the stars of a new, embedded star cluster have formed they blow the remaining gas out of the cluster. Especially winds of high mass stars and definitely the on-set of the first super novae can remove the residual gas from a cluster.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Fellhauer , P. Kroupa

We compare the star formation (SF) activity in cluster galaxies to the field from z=0.3-1.5 using $Herschel$ SPIRE 250$\mu$m imaging. We utilize 274 clusters from the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey (ISCS) selected as rest-frame near-infrared…

We present a study of the spatial distribution and kinematics of star-forming galaxies in 30 massive clusters at 0.15<z<0.30, combining wide-field Spitzer 24um and GALEX NUV imaging with highly-complete spectroscopy of cluster members. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 C. P. Haines , M. J. Pereira , G. P. Smith , E. Egami , A. Babul , A. Finoguenov , F. Ziparo , S. L. McGee , T. D. Rawle , N. Okabe , S. M. Moran
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