3 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
The Importance of Tidal Forces in Molecular Cloud Dynamics
JinWoo Lee, Alexa Saur, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +1
We investigate the role of tidal forces in molecular cloud formation by examining how apparent boundedness, as diagnosed by the classical virial parameter, relates to the actual gr…
astro-ph.EP2025
CAMPOS II. The onset of protostellar disk substructures and planet formation
Cheng-Han Hsieh, Héctor G. Arce, María José Maureira +6
The 1.3 mm CAMPOS survey has resolved 90 protostellar disks with ~15 au resolution across the Ophiuchus, Corona Australis, and Chamaeleon star-forming regions. To address the funda…
astro-ph.GA2023
Pre-supernova feedback sets the star cluster mass function to a power law and reduces the cluster formation efficiency
Eric P. Andersson, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Oscar Agertz +2
The star cluster initial mass function is observed to have an inverse power law exponent around 2, yet there is no consensus on what determines this distribution, and why some vari…