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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…
Collision between molecular clouds IV: The role of feedback and magnetic field in head on collisions
Tabassum S. Tanvir, Michael Y. Grudić
We systematically investigate how cloud-cloud collisions influence star formation, emphasizing the roles of collision velocity, magnetic field orientation, and radiative feedback.…
Further correction to the STARFORGE methods paper: Planck-mean dust opacities
Michael Y. Grudić, Dávid Guszejnov, Philip F. Hopkins +2
The model for the Planck-mean dust opacity given in Appendix C of the STARFORGE simulations methods paper does not extrapolate well to low radiation temperature $T_{\rm rad…
Stellar populations in STARFORGE II: Comparison with observations
Juan P. Farias, Stella S. R. Offner, Ronan Kerr +1
Recent studies suggest that most star-forming regions in our Galaxy form stellar associations rather than bound clusters. We analyse models from the STARFORGE simulation suite, a s…
A Probabilistic Model to Estimate Number Densities from Column Densities in Molecular Clouds
Brandt A. L. Gaches, Michael Y. Grudić
Constraining the physical and chemical evolution of molecular clouds is essential to our understanding of star formation. These investigations often necessitate knowledge of some l…
Effects of stellar feedback on cores in STARFORGE
K. R. Neralwar, D. Colombo, S. Offner +5
Stars form in dense cores within molecular clouds and newly formed stars influence their natal environments. How stellar feedback impacts core properties and evolution is subject t…
The opacity limit
Michael Y. Grudić, Philip F. Hopkins
The opacity limit is an important concept in star formation: isothermal collapse cannot proceed without limit, because eventually cooling radiation is trapped and the temperature r…
Does God play dice with star clusters?
Michael Y. Grudić, Stella S. R. Offner, Dávid Guszejnov +2
When a detailed model of a stellar population is unavailable, it is most common to assume that stellar masses are independently and identically distributed according to some distri…
Great Balls of FIRE II: The evolution and destruction of star clusters across cosmic time in a Milky Way-mass galaxy
Carl L. Rodriguez, Zachary Hafen, Michael Y. Grudić +4
The current generation of galaxy simulations can resolve individual giant molecular clouds, the progenitors of dense star clusters. But the evolutionary fate of these young massive…
Great Balls of FIRE I: The formation of star clusters across cosmic time in a Milky Way-mass galaxy
Michael Y. Grudić, Zachary Hafen, Carl L. Rodriguez +5
The properties of young star clusters formed within a galaxy are thought to vary in different interstellar medium (ISM) conditions, but the details of this mapping from galactic to…
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…
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.…
The universal acceleration scale from stellar feedback
Michael Y. Grudić, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère +1
It has been established for decades that rotation curves deviate from the Newtonian gravity expectation given baryons alone below a characteristic acceleration scale $g_{\dagger}\s…
Universal Scaling Relations in Scale-Free Structure Formation
David Guszejnov, Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudić
A large number of astronomical phenomena exhibit remarkably similar scaling relations. The most well-known of these is the mass distribution $\mathrm{d} N/\mathrm{d} M\propto M^{-2…
Formation of Globular Cluster Candidates in Merging Proto-galaxies at High Redshift: A View from the FIRE Cosmological Simulations
Ji-hoon Kim, Xiangcheng Ma, Michael Y. Grudić +7
Using a state-of-the-art cosmological simulation of merging proto-galaxies at high redshift from the FIRE project, with explicit treatments of star formation and stellar feedback i…
When Feedback Fails: The Scaling and Saturation of Star Formation Efficiency
Michael Y. Grudić, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère +3
We present a suite of 3D multi-physics MHD simulations following star formation in isolated turbulent molecular gas disks ranging from 5 to 500 parsecs in radius. These simulations…