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The presence or absence of star clusters in galaxies, and the properties of star cluster populations compared to their host galaxy properties, are important observables for validating models of cluster formation, galaxy formation, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Samantha C. Berek , Marta Reina-Campos , Gwendolyn Eadie , Alison Sills

We recently introduced three new parameters that describe the shape of the normalized cumulative radial distribution (nCRD) of the innermost stars in globular clusters and trace the clusters dynamical evolution. Here we extend our previous…

Most stars and thus most planetary systems do not form in isolation. The larger star-forming environment affects protoplanetary disks in multiple ways: gravitational interactions with other stars truncate disks and alter the architectures…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Megan Reiter , Richrd J. Parker

We report on the identification of 54 embedded clusters around 217 massive protostellar candidates of which 34 clusters are new detections. The embedded clusters are identified as stellar surface density enhancements in the 2 $\mu$m All Sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 M. S. N. Kumar , E. Keto , E. Clerkin

We use Enzo, a hybrid Eulerian AMR/N-body code including non-gravitational heating and cooling, to explore the morphology of the X-ray gas in clusters of galaxies and its evolution in current generation cosmological simulations. We employ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Tesla E. Jeltema , Eric J. Hallman , Jack O. Burns , Patrick M. Motl

The morphology of clusters of galaxies may be described with a set of parameters which contain information about the formation and evolutionary history of these systems. In this paper we present a preliminary study of the morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Strazzullo , M. Paolillo , G. Longo , E. Puddu , S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. De Carvalho , R. R. Gal

Currently clusters/associations of stars are mainly detected as surface density enhancements relative to the background field. While clusters form, their surface density increases. It likely decreases again at the end of the star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susanne Pfalzner , Kirsten Vincke , Mai Xiang

This paper studies the dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters with $N$ = 100 - 1000 members. We use N-body simulations to explore how evolution depends on system size $N$ and the initial conditions. Motivated by recent observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fred C. Adams , Eva M. Proszkow , Marco Fatuzzo , Philip C. Myers

The mass fraction of hot gas in clusters is a basic quantity whose level and dependence on the cluster mass and redshift are intimately linked to all cluster X-ray and SZ measures. Modeling the evolution of the gas fraction is clearly a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Irina Dvorkin , Yoel Rephaeli

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

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

We study the dynamical evolution of star clusters on eccentric orbits using a semi-analytical approach. In particular we adapt and extend the equations of EMACSS code, introduced by Gieles et al. (2014), to work with eccentric orbits. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-23 Hamid Ebrahimi , Hosein Haghi , Pouria Khalaj , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Ghasem Safaei

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

We have been represented the collective information of estimation procedures of parameters of the open clusters and put them together for showing the importance of clusters to understand their role in stellar evolution phenomenon. Moreover,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 Gireesh C. Joshi

Star clusters are born in a highly compact configuration, typically with radii of less than about 1 pc roughly independently of mass. Since the star-formation efficiency is less than 50 per cent by observation and because the residual gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Weidner , P. Kroupa , D. E. A. Nuernberger , M. F. Sterzik

The isothermal dynamical evolution of a clumpy and turbulent molecular cloud region and its fragmentation into a protostellar cluster is investigated numerically. The effect of different initial density and velocity distributions, generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen , Andreas Burkert

A model of protostar mass and luminosity evolution in clusters gives new estimates of cluster age, protostar birthrate, accretion rate and mean accretion time. The model assumes constant protostar birthrate, core-clump accretion, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Philip C. Myers

We investigated the evolution of clusters of galaxies using self-consistent N-body simulations. We varied the initial model of galaxies and clusters, and studied the dependence of evolution on initial conditions. We found that the growth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 T. Sensui , Y. Funato , J. Makino

Close encounters between stars in star forming regions are important as they can perturb or destroy protoplanetary discs, young planetary systems, and stellar multiple systems. We simulate simple, viralised, equal-mass $N$-body star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Krisada Rawiraswattana , Simon P. Goodwin

Identifying the processes that determine strength, duration and variability of protostellar mass growth is a fundamental ingredient of any theory of star formation. I discuss protostellar mass accretion rates dM/dt from numerical models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ralf Klessen