7 papers
Centrally concentrated star formation in young clusters II: Jet feedback
Adilkhan Assilkhan, Sabrina M. Appel, Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev +5
Protostellar jets are one of the earliest forms of stellar feedback, but their impact on star formation and cluster assembly in centrally concentrated molecular clouds remains poor…
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 star cluster formation III. Early mass segregation during cluster assembly
Brooke Polak, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Ralf S. Klessen +6
Mass segregation is seen in many star clusters, but whether massive stars form in the center of a cluster or migrate there dynamically is still debated. N-body simulations have sho…
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…
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…