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6 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

The Blue Lurker WOCS 14020: A Long-Period Post-Common-Envelope Binary in M67 Originating from a Merger in a Triple System

Emily M. Leiner, Natalie M. Gosnell, Aaron M. Geller +3

We present Hubble Space Telescope far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectra of a blue-lurkerwhite-dwarf (BL-WD) binary system in the 4 Gyr open cluster M67. We fit the FUV spectrum of the W…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dynamics of Star Cluster Formation: The Effects of Ongoing Star Formation and Stellar Feedback

Jeremy Karam, Michiko S. Fujii, Alison Sills

We perform a high resolution zoom-in simulation of star cluster assembly including the merger of two sub-clusters with initial conditions taken from previous large scale giant mole…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…