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The formation of filamentary bundles in turbulent molecular clouds
Nickolas Moeckel, Andreas Burkert
The classical picture of a star-forming filament is a near-equilibrium structure, with collapse dependent on its gravitational criticality. Recent observations have complicated thi…
Primordial triples and collisions of massive stars
Nickolas Moeckel, Ian A. Bonnell
Massive stars are known to have a high multiplicity, with examples of higher order multiples among the nearest and best studied objects. In this paper we study hierarchical multipl…
Reliable estimation of the column density in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic simulations
Matthew D. Young, Erik Bertram, Nick Moeckel +1
We describe a simple method for estimating the vertical column density in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of discs. As in the method of Stamatellos et al. (2007),…
Do all stars in the solar neighbourhood form in clusters? A cautionary note on the use of the distribution of surface densities
Mark Gieles, Nick Moeckel, Cathie J. Clarke
Bressert et al. recently showed that the surface density distribution of low-mass, young stellar objects (YSOs) in the solar neighbourhood is approximately log-normal. The authors…
Disrupting Primordial Planet Signatures: The Close Encounter of Two Single-Planet Exosystems in the Galactic Disc
Dimitri Veras, Nickolas Moeckel
During their main sequence lifetimes, the majority of all Galactic Disc field stars must endure at least one stellar intruder passing within a few hundred AU. Mounting observations…
The rapid dispersal of low-mass virialised clusters
Nickolas Moeckel, Christopher Holland, Cathie J. Clarke +1
Infant mortality brought about by the expulsion of a star cluster's natal gas is widely invoked to explain cluster statistics at different ages. While a well studied problem, most…