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most citedThe dynamics and outcome of star formation with jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae in concert

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37 papers

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Bridging Theory and Observation: Synthetic Far-infrared Insights into Star Formation Efficiency

Alexander Escamilla, Michael Y. Grudić, Anna L. Rosen

The star formation efficiency per free-fall time () quantifies how efficiently giant molecular clouds (GMCs) convert gas into stars and is often observed to be orders o…

astro-ph.SR2026

Confidently Wrong: Why Ignoring Binaries Biases IMF Inference at Large Sample Sizes

Anna L. Rosen

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) high-mass slope is routinely measured by fitting single-star models to photometric samples that contain unresolved binaries. This practi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Taming the Tarantula: How Stellar Wind Feedback Shapes Gas and Dust in 30 Doradus

Jennifer A. Rodriguez, Laura A. Lopez, Lachlan Lancaster +5

Observations of massive star-forming regions show that classical stellar wind models over-predict the luminosity of the X-ray emitting gas, indicating a significant fraction of win…

astro-ph.HE2025

Investigating the Gamma-Ray Emission from Explosive Dispersal Outflows with Fermi-LAT

Paarmita Pandey, Stephen C. Lenker, Laura A. Lopez +6

We present the first systematic study of explosive dispersal outflows (EDOs) as potential sources of high-energy emission in the Milky Way. EDOs are energetic outflows produced dur…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

The High-resolution Accretion Disks of Embedded protoStars (HADES) simulations. I. Impact of Protostellar Magnetic Fields on the Accretion Modes

Brandt A. L. Gaches, Jonathan C. Tan, Anna L. Rosen +1

How embedded, actively accreting low-mass protostars accrete their mass is still greatly debated. Observations are now piecing together the puzzle of embedded protostellar accretio…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

The TEMPO Survey II: Science Cases Leveraged from a Proposed 30-Day Time Domain Survey of the Orion Nebula with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Melinda Soares-Furtado, Mary Anne Limbach, Andrew Vanderburg +26

The TEMPO (Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets in Orion) Survey is a proposed 30-day observational campaign using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. By providing deep,…

astro-ph.HE2024

Constraining the Diffusion Coefficient and Cosmic-Ray Acceleration Efficiency using Gamma-ray Emission from the Star-Forming Region RCW 38

Paarmita Pandey, Laura A. Lopez, Anna L. Rosen +3

Stellar winds from massive stars may be significant sources of cosmic rays (CRs). To investigate this connection, we report a detailed study of gamma-ray emission near the young Mi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

FORGE'd in FIRE III: The IMF in Quasar Accretion Disks from STARFORGE

Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudic, Kyle Kremer +3

Recently, we demonstrated self-consistent formation of strongly-magnetized quasar accretion disks (QADs) from cosmological radiation-magnetohydrodynamic-thermochemical galaxy-star…

astro-ph.HE2024

Detection of Diffuse Hot Gas Around the Young, Potential Superstar Cluster H72.97-69.39

Trinity L. Webb, Jennifer A. Rodriguez, Laura A. Lopez +6

We present the first Chandra X-ray observations of H72.97-69.39, a highly-embedded, potential super-star cluster (SSC) in its infancy located in the star-forming complex N79 of the…

astro-ph.GA2023

Stellar Populations in STARFORGE: The Origin and Evolution of Star Clusters and Associations

Juan P. Farias, Stella S. R. Offner, Michael Y. Grudić +2

Most stars form in highly clustered environments within molecular clouds, but eventually disperse into the distributed stellar field population. Exactly how the stellar distributio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

What Sets the Star Formation Rate of Molecular Clouds? The Density Distribution as a Fingerprint of Compression and Expansion Rates

Sabrina M. Appel, Blakesley Burkhart, Vadim A. Semenov +3

We use a suite of 3D simulations of star-forming molecular clouds, with and without stellar feedback, magnetic fields, and driven turbulence, to study the compression and expansion…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

A Multiwavelength Study of the Massive Colliding Wind Binary WR 20a: A Possible Progenitor for Fast-Spinning LIGO Binary Black Hole Mergers

Grace M. Olivier, Laura A. Lopez, Katie Auchettl +7

WR 20a is the most massive close-in binary known in our Galaxy. It is composed of two 80 M Wolf-Rayet stars with a short period of 3.7 days in the open cl…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

Effects of the environment on the multiplicity properties of stars in the STARFORGE simulations

Dávid Guszejnov, Aman N. Raju, Stella S. R. Offner +4

Most observed stars are part of a multiple star system, but the formation of such systems and the role of environment and various physical processes is still poorly understood. We…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

The TEMPO Survey I: Predicting Yields of the Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30-day Survey of Orion with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Mary Anne Limbach, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg +12

We present design considerations for the Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets in Orion (TEMPO) Survey with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This proposed 30-day surve…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 79 cited

Effects of the environment and feedback physics on the initial mass function of stars in the STARFORGE simulations

Dávid Guszejnov, Michael Y. Grudić, Stella S. R. Offner +3

One of the key mysteries of star formation is the origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF). The IMF is observed to be nearly universal in the Milky Way and its satellites,…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 30 cited

A Massive Star is Born: How Feedback from Stellar Winds, Radiation Pressure, and Collimated Outflows Limits Accretion onto Massive Stars

Anna L. Rosen

Massive protostars attain high luminosities as they are actively accreting and the radiation pressure exerted on the gas in the star's atmosphere may launch isotropic high-velocity…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 56 cited

Cluster assembly and the origin of mass segregation in the STARFORGE simulations

Dávid Guszejnov, Carleen Markey, Stella S. R. Offner +4

Stars form in dense, clustered environments, where feedback from newly formed stars eventually ejects the gas, terminating star formation and leaving behind one or more star cluste…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 153 cited

The dynamics and outcome of star formation with jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae in concert

Michael Y. Grudić, Dávid Guszejnov, Stella S. R. Offner +4

We analyze the first giant molecular cloud (GMC) simulation to follow the formation of individual stars and their feedback from jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae, using the ST…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

Less wrong: a more realistic initial condition for simulations of turbulent molecular clouds

Henry B. Lane, Michael Y. Grudić, Dávid Guszejnov +3

Simulations of isolated giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are an important tool for studying the dynamics of star formation, but their turbulent initial conditions (ICs) are uncertain.…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

The Effects of Magnetic Fields and Outflow Feedback on the Shape and Evolution of the Density PDF in Turbulent Star-Forming Clouds

Sabrina M. Appel, Blakesley Burkhart, Vadim A. Semenov +2

Using a suite of 3D hydrodynamical simulations of star-forming molecular clouds, we investigate how the density probability distribution function (PDF) changes when including gravi…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 6 cited

Blowing Bubbles around Intermediate-Mass Stars: Feedback from Main-Sequence Winds is not Enough

Anna L. Rosen, Stella S. R. Offner, Michael M. Foley +1

Numerous spherical ``shells" have been observed in young star-forming environments that host low- and intermediate-mass stars. These observations suggest that these shells may be p…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Dust in the Wind with Resonant Drag Instabilities: I. The Dynamics of Dust-Driven Outflows in GMCs and HII Regions

Philip F. Hopkins, Anna L. Rosen, Jonathan Squire +4

Radiation-dust driven outflows, where radiation pressure on dust grains accelerates gas, occur in many astrophysical environments. Almost all previous numerical studies of these sy…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

Continuity of accretion from clumps to Class 0 high-mass protostars in SDC335

A. Avison, G. A. Fuller, N. Peretto +6

The IRDC SDC335.579-0.292 (SDC335) is a massive star-forming cloud found to be globally collapsing towards one of the most massive star forming cores in the Galaxy. SDC335 hosts th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 62 cited

Evolution of Stellar Feedback in HII Regions

Grace M. Olivier, Laura A. Lopez, Anna L. Rosen +4

Stellar feedback is needed to produce realistic giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and galaxies in simulations, but due to limited numerical resolution, feedback must be implemented usi…