Unbound young stellar systems: star formation on the loose

DA Gouliermis - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Unbound young stellar systems, the loose ensembles of physically related young bright
stars, trace the typical regions of recent star formation in galaxies. Their morphologies vary …

Testing physical models for cosmic ray transport coefficients on galactic scales: self-confinement and extrinsic turbulence at∼ GeV energies

PF Hopkins, J Squire, TK Chan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The microphysics of∼ GeV cosmic ray (CR) transport on galactic scales remain deeply
uncertain, with almost all studies adopting simple prescriptions (eg constant diffusivity). We …

The spatial relation between young star clusters and molecular clouds in M51 with LEGUS

K Grasha, D Calzetti, A Adamo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a study correlating the spatial locations of young star clusters with those of
molecular clouds in NGC 5194, in order to investigate the time-scale over which clusters …

What FIREs up star formation: the emergence of the Kennicutt–Schmidt law from feedback

ME Orr, CC Hayward, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present an analysis of the global and spatially resolved Kennicutt–Schmidt (KS) star
formation relation in the FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments) suite of cosmological …

The SILCC project–IV. Impact of dissociating and ionizing radiation on the interstellar medium and Hα emission as a tracer of the star formation rate

T Peters, T Naab, S Walch, SCO Glover… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the impact of stellar
winds, photoelectric heating, photodissociating and photoionizing radiation, and …

Variation of the high-mass slope of the stellar initial mass function: Theory meets observations

S Dib - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observational evidence of a correlation between the high-mass slope of the
stellar initial mass function (IMF) in young star clusters and their stellar surface density, σ …

Simulating star clusters across cosmic time–I. Initial mass function, star formation rates, and efficiencies

CC He, M Ricotti, S Geen - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of star formation in self-gravitating,
turbulent molecular clouds, modelling the formation of individual massive stars, including …

Stellar wind properties of the nearly complete sample of O stars in the low metallicity young star cluster NGC 346 in the SMC galaxy

MJ Rickard, R Hainich, WR Hamann… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Massive stars are among the main cosmic engines driving the evolution of star-
forming galaxies. Their powerful ionising radiation and stellar winds inject a large amount of …

Interpreting the star formation efficiency of nearby molecular clouds with ionizing radiation

S Geen, JD Soler, P Hennebelle - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the origin of observed local star formation relations using radiative
magnetohydrodynamic simulations with self-consistent star formation and ionizing radiation …

SN 2016iet: the pulsational or pair instability explosion of a low-metallicity massive CO core embedded in a dense hydrogen-poor circumstellar medium

S Gomez, E Berger, M Nicholl… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2016iet (= Gaia16bvd= PS17brq), an
unprecedented Type I supernova (SN I) at z= 0.0676 with no obvious analog in the existing …