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most citedMassive star cluster formation I. High star formation efficiency while resolving feedback of individual stars

33 citations · 56 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

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.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★ 4 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 33 cited

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…