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most citedStar formation efficiencies of molecular clouds in a galactic center environment

27 citations · 113 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

From Triadic Interactions to Kolmogorov Scaling: A Deterministic, Scale-Resolved Formulation of Energy Flux

Erik Bertram

We develop a deterministic, scale-resolved formulation of energy transfer in the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations based on an explicit triadic decomposition…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Momentum-Regulated Model For Star Formation Efficiency in Giant Molecular Clouds

Erik Bertram

We present a minimal analytic framework to investigate the star formation efficiency per free-fall time, , in giant molecular clouds (GMCs), focusing on the origin of t…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 24 cited

Synthetic observations of molecular clouds in a galactic center environment: I. Studying maps of column density and integrated intensity

Erik Bertram, Simon C. O. Glover, Paul C. Clark +2

We run numerical simulations of molecular clouds (MCs), adopting properties similar to those found in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way. For this, we employ the mov…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 27 cited

Star formation efficiencies of molecular clouds in a galactic center environment

Erik Bertram, Simon C. O. Glover, Paul C. Clark +1

We use the Arepo moving mesh code to simulate the evolution of molecular clouds exposed to a harsh environment similar to that found in the galactic center (GC), in an effort to un…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 10 cited

Structure analysis of simulated molecular clouds with the Delta-variance

Erik Bertram, Ralf S. Klessen, Simon C. O. Glover

We employ the Delta-variance analysis and study the turbulent gas dynamics of simulated molecular clouds (MCs). Our models account for a simplified treatment of time-dependent chem…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 19 cited

Centroid Velocity Statistics of Molecular Clouds

Erik Bertram, Lukas Konstandin, Rahul Shetty +2

We compute structure functions and Fourier spectra of 2D centroid velocity (CV) maps in order to study the gas dynamics of typical molecular clouds (MCs) in numerical simulations.…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 15 cited

Principal Component Analysis of Molecular Clouds: Can CO reveal the dynamics?

Erik Bertram, Rahul Shetty, Simon C. O. Glover +3

We use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to study the gas dynamics in numerical simulations of typical MCs. Our simulations account for the non-isothermal nature of the gas and in…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 6 cited

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),…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 12 cited

Statistical analysis of the mass-to-flux ratio in turbulent cores: effects of magnetic field reversals and dynamo amplification

Erik Bertram, Christoph Federrath, Robi Banerjee +1

We study the mass-to-flux ratio (M/Φ) of clumps and cores in simulations of supersonic, magnetohydrodynamical turbulence for different initial magnetic field strengths. We investig…