9 papers
Asymptotic behaviour of galactic small-scale dynamos at modest magnetic Prandtl number
Frederick A. Gent, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg +2
Magnetic fields are critical at many scales to galactic dynamics and structure, including multiphase pressure balance, dust processing, and star formation. Dynamo action determines…
Transferring Data from a Voronoi Mesh to an Adaptive Cartesian Grid in Pursuit of Self-consistent Top-down Star Formation
Sean C. Lewis, Brooke Polak, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +5
Unstructured Voronoi mesh simulations offer many advantages for simulating self-gravitating gas dynamics on galactic scales. Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) can be a powerful tool f…
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…
Aeos is Mixing it Up: The (In)homogeneity of Metal Mixing Following Population III Star Formation
Jennifer Mead, Kaley Brauer, Greg L. Bryan +7
Stellar surface abundances are records of the state of the gas from which stars formed, and thus trace how individual elements have mixed into the surrounding medium following thei…
Aeos: Transport of Metals from Minihalos following Population III Stellar Feedback
Jennifer Mead, Kaley Brauer, Greg L. Bryan +7
We investigate how stellar feedback from the first stars (Population III) distributes metals through the interstellar and intergalactic medium using the star-by-star cosmological h…
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…