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The fragmentation of molecular clouds in starburst environments
Matt T. Cusack, Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover +4
A significant amount of star formation occurs and has occurred in environments unlike the solar neighbourhood. The majority of stars formed closer to the peak of the cosmic star fo…
Mach number study of supersonic turbulence: The properties of the density field
Lukas Konstandin, Wolfram Schmidt, Philipp Girichidis +3
We model driven, compressible, isothermal, turbulence with Mach numbers ranging from the subsonic () to the highly supersonic regime ($\mathcal{M}\approx…
Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of the velocity power spectrum in supersonic turbulence
Lukas Konstandin, Rahul Shetty, Philipp Girichidis +1
Turbulence is a dominant feature operating in gaseous flows across nearly all scales in astrophysical environments. Accordingly, accurately estimating the statistical properties of…
A new density variance - Mach number relation for subsonic and supersonic, isothermal turbulence
Lukas Konstandin, Philipp Girichidis, Christoph Federrath +1
The probability density function (PDF) of the gas density in subsonic and supersonic, isothermal, driven turbulence is analyzed with a systematic set of hydrodynamical grid simulat…
Importance of the Initial Conditions for Star Formation - III: Statistical Properties of Embedded Protostellar Clusters
Philipp Girichidis, Christoph Federrath, Richard Allison +2
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 o…
Importance of the Initial Conditions for Star Formation - II. Fragmentation Induced Starvation and Accretion Shielding
Philipp Girichidis, Christoph Federrath, Robi Banerjee +1
We investigate the impact of different initial conditions for the initial density profile and the initial turbulence on the formation process of protostellar clusters. We study the…
Importance of the Initial Conditions for Star Formation - I. Cloud Evolution and Morphology
Philipp Girichidis, Christoph Federrath, Robi Banerjee +1
We present a detailed parameter study of collapsing turbulent cloud cores, varying the initial density profile and the initial turbulent velocity field. We systematically investiga…