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most citedTidal Tails of Nearby Open Clusters. II. A Review of Simulated Properties and the Reliability of Observational Catalogues

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16 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Bridging the gap between stars and planets

Aina Palau, Dimitris Stamatellos, Matthew Bate +58

The formation mechanisms of brown dwarfs (BDs) and free-floating planets (FFPs) are poorly constrained. The two main competing scenarios include the star-like scenario, where these…

astro-ph.GA2026

A clump population framework for star formation across galactic scales

J. W. Zhou, Sami Dib, Tie Liu +11

Whether star formation across different spatial scales and galactic environments follows universal laws remains poorly understood. We investigate cloud-scale star formation in 30 d…

astro-ph.SR2026

The white dwarf population of open clusters and their tidal tails. Tracers of contamination and stellar interactions

Vikrant V. Jadhav, Pavel Kroupa, David R. Miller +3

Recent Gaia studies have identified numerous open clusters (OCs) & tidal tail catalogues, enabling systematic searches for white dwarfs (WDs) associated with clusters & their exten…

astro-ph.GA2026

Statistical study for binary star evolution in dense embedded clusters

Wenjie Wu, Pavel Kroupa, Vikrant V. Jadhav

Context: The dynamical evolution of binary populations in embedded star clusters shapes the statistical properties of binaries observed in the Galactic field. Accurately modelling…

astro-ph.GA2025

Connecting Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies -II. An Observationally Driven Analytical Model for Predicting Cloud-Scale Star Formation Rates

J. W. Zhou, Amelie Saintonge, Sami Dib +1

We construct a model by integrating observational constraints from the Milky Way and nearby galaxies to predict cloud-scale star formation rates (SFRs). In the model, we first esti…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Tidal Tails of Nearby Open Clusters. II. A Review of Simulated Properties and the Reliability of Observational Catalogues

Vikrant V. Jadhav, Dhanraj Risbud, Pavel Kroupa +1

Context: Recent studies using Gaia data have reported tidal tail detections for tens to hundreds of open clusters. However, a comprehensive assessment of the reliability & complete…

astro-ph.GA2025

The most massive star clusters in molecular clouds: Insights from the integrated cloud-wide initial mass function (ICIMF) theory

J. W. Zhou, Pavel Kroupa, Sami Dib

The combination of the high-resolution ALMA, JWST and HST observations provides unprecedented insights into the connection between individual molecular clouds and their internal st…

astro-ph.GA2025

Inversely synthesizing the core mass function of high-mass star-forming regions from the canonical initial mass function

J. W. Zhou, Pavel Kroupa, Sami Dib

Many studies have revealed that the core mass function (CMF) in high-mass star-forming regions is top-heavy. In this work, we start from the canonical initial mass function (IMF) t…

astro-ph.GA2025

Tidal tails of nearby open clusters I. Mapping with Gaia DR3

Dhanraj Risbud, Vikrant V. Jadhav, Pavel Kroupa

Context: Tidal tails of open clusters are the result of stellar evaporation from the cluster through the Galactic potential and internal dynamics. With the recent availability of h…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The post-gas expulsion coalescence of embedded clusters as an origin of open clusters

J. W. Zhou, Sami Dib, Pavel Kroupa

The mismatch between the mass function of the Milky Way's embedded clusters (ECs) and that of open clusters (OCs) raises the question of whether each OC originates from a single EC…

astro-ph.GA2024

The currently observed clumps cannot be the "direct" precursors of the currently observed open clusters

J. W. Zhou, Sami Dib, Pavel Kroupa

We categorized clumps, embedded clusters, and open clusters and conducted a comparative analysis of their physical properties. Overall, the radii of open clusters are significantly…

astro-ph.GA2024

A recent confirmation of the wide binary gravitational anomaly

X. Hernandez, Pavel Kroupa

Concerning recent published studies exploring the presence or otherwise of a gravitational anomaly at low accelerations in wide binary stars as observed by the {\it Gaia} satellite…

astro-ph.GA2024

The evolution of the mass--radius relation of expanding very young star clusters

Jian-Wen Zhou, Pavel Kroupa, Wenjie Wu

The initial mass--radius relation of embedded star clusters is an essentially important boundary condition for understanding the evolution of embedded clusters in which stars form…

astro-ph.GA2024

The star formation histories, star formation efficiencies and ionizing sources of ATLASGAL clumps with HII regions

J. W. Zhou, Sami Dib, Pavel Kroupa

1226 ATLASGAL clumps with HII regions were matched with radio sources in the CORNISH-North/South surveys, and 392 of them have corresponding radio sources. We determined the stella…

astro-ph.GA2024

Physical properties of embedded clusters in ATLASGAL clumps with HII regions

J. W. Zhou, Pavel Kroupa, Sami Dib

Using the optimal sampling model, we synthesized the embedded clusters of ATLASGAL clumps with HII regions (HII-clumps). The 0.1 Myr isochrone was used to estimate the bolometric l…

astro-ph.GA2024

Self-similar cluster structures in massive star-forming regions: Isolated evolution from clumps to embedded clusters

J. W. Zhou, Pavel Kroupa, Sami Dib

We used the dendrogram algorithm to decompose the surface density distributions of stars into hierarchical structures. These structures were tied to the multiscale structures of st…