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Transferring Data from a Voronoi Mesh to an Adaptive Cartesian Grid in Pursuit of Self-consistent Top-down Star Formation
Sean C. Lewis, Brooke Polak, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +5
Unstructured Voronoi mesh simulations offer many advantages for simulating self-gravitating gas dynamics on galactic scales. Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) can be a powerful tool f…
Protostellar Jets in Star Cluster Formation and Evolution: I. Implementation and Initial Results
Sabrina M. Appel, Blakesley Burkhart, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +8
Stars form in clusters from the gravitational collapse of giant molecular clouds, which is opposed by a variety of physical processes, including stellar feedback. The interplay bet…
Massive Interacting Binaries Enhance Feedback in Star-Forming Regions
Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Eric P. Andersson, Sabrina M. Appel +9
We present a new framework to incorporate feedback from massive interacting binaries in simulations of star cluster formation. Our new feedback model adds binary stellar evolution…
Centrally concentrated star formation in young clusters
Adilkhan Assilkhan, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Brooke Polak +6
The study of star cluster evolution necessitates modeling how their density profiles develop from their natal gas distribution. Observational evidence indicates that many star clus…
The Evolution of Substructure during Star Cluster Assembly
Edwin Laverde-Villarreal, Alison Sills, Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier +1
Star cluster formation and assembly occurs inside filamentary and turbulent molecular clouds, which imprints both spatial and kinematic substructure on the young cluster. In this p…
Massive Star Cluster Formation with Binaries. I. Evolution of Binary Populations
Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Alison Sills, William E. Harris +7
We study the evolution of populations of binary stars within massive cluster-forming regions. We simulate the formation of young massive star clusters within giant molecular clouds…
Binary Disruption and Ejected Stars from Hierarchical Star Cluster Assembly
Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Jeremy Karam, Alison Sills +2
We simulate mergers between star clusters embedded within their natal giant molecular cloud. We extract initial conditions from cloud-scale simulations of cluster formation and int…
Massive star cluster formation II. Runaway stars as fossils of sub-cluster mergers
Brooke Polak, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Ralf S. Klessen +6
Two main mechanisms have classically been proposed for the formation of runaway stars. In the binary supernova scenario (BSS), a massive star in a binary explodes as a supernova, e…
Massive star cluster formation I. High star formation efficiency while resolving feedback of individual stars
Brooke Polak, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Ralf S. Klessen +11
The mode of star formation that results in the formation of globular clusters and young massive clusters is difficult to constrain through observations. We present models of massiv…
Early Evolution and 3D Structure of Embedded Star Clusters
Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Alison Sills, William E. Harris +8
We perform simulations of star cluster formation to investigate the morphological evolution of embedded star clusters in the earliest stages of their evolution. We conduct our simu…
Radiation shielding of protoplanetary discs in young star-forming regions
Maite J. C. Wilhelm, Simon Portegies Zwart, Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier +4
Protoplanetary discs spend their lives in the dense environment of a star forming region. While there, they can be affected by nearby stars through external photoevaporation and dy…
Early-Forming Massive Stars Suppress Star Formation and Hierarchical Cluster Assembly
Sean C. Lewis, Stephen L. W. McMillan, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +8
Feedback from massive stars plays an important role in the formation of star clusters. Whether a very massive star is born early or late in the cluster formation timeline has profo…
Implementing Primordial Binaries in Simulations of Star Cluster Formation with a Hybrid MHD and Direct N-Body Method
Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Aaron Tran, Sean Lewis +6
The fraction of stars in binary systems within star clusters is important for their evolution, but what proportion of binaries form by dynamical processes after initial stellar acc…