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The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Early Dark Matter-free Gas Objects
William Lake, Michael Y. Grudić, Smadar Naoz +6
Among the remarkable strides made by JWST is the discovery of the earliest star clusters found to date. These have been proposed as early progenitors of globular clusters, which ar…
Suppressed Cosmic Ray Energy Densities in Molecular Clouds From Streaming Instability-Regulated Transport
Margot Fitz Axen, Stella Offner, Phillip F. Hopkins +2
Cosmic rays (CRs) are the primary driver of ionization in star forming molecular clouds (MCs). Despite their potential impacts on gas dynamics and chemistry, no simulations of star…
Thermodynamics of Giant Molecular Clouds: The Effects of Dust Grain Size
Nadine H. Soliman, Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudić
The dust grain size distribution (GSD) likely varies significantly across star-forming environments in the Universe, but its impact on star formation remains unclear. This ambiguit…
Playing with FIRE: A Galactic Feedback-Halting Experiment Challenges Star Formation Rate Theories
Shivan Khullar, Christopher D. Matzner, Norman Murray +4
Stellar feedback influences the star formation rate (SFR) and the interstellar medium of galaxies in ways that are difficult to quantify numerically, because feedback is an essenti…
Dust-Evacuated Zones Near Massive Stars: Consequences of Dust Dynamics on Star-forming Regions
Nadine H. Soliman, Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudić
Stars form within dense cores composed of both gas and dust within molecular clouds. However, despite the crucial role that dust plays in the star formation process, its dynamics i…
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…