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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…
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…