The birth environment of planetary systems

RJ Parker - Royal Society Open Science, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Star and planet formation are inextricably linked. In the earliest phases of the collapse of a
protostar, a disc forms around the young star and such discs are observed for the first …

Kinematics in young star clusters and associations with Gaia DR2

MA Kuhn, LA Hillenbrand, A Sills… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star
clusters at the sub-km s− 1 level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters …

Extended stellar systems in the solar neighborhood-V. Discovery of coronae of nearby star clusters

S Meingast, J Alves, A Rottensteiner - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
We present a novel view on the morphology and dynamical state of ten prominent, nearby
(≤ 500 pc), and young (∼ 30–300 Myr) open star clusters with Gaia DR2: α Per, Blanco 1 …

Disruption of giant molecular clouds and formation of bound star clusters under the influence of momentum stellar feedback

H Li, M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Energetic feedback from star clusters plays a pivotal role in shaping the dynamical evolution
of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). To study the effects of stellar feedback on the star …

The formation and early evolution of embedded star clusters in spiral galaxies

S Rieder, C Dobbs, T Bending, KY Liow… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present Ekster, a new method for simulating star clusters from birth in a live galaxy
simulation that combines the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method Phantom with …

Star cluster formation in cosmological simulations–III. Dynamical and chemical evolution

H Li, OY Gnedin - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In previous papers of this series, we developed a new algorithm for modelling the formation
of star clusters in galaxy formation simulations. Here we investigate how dissolution of …

Constraints on star formation in NGC 2264

RJ Parker, C Schoettler - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We quantify the spatial distribution of stars for two subclusters centred around the
massive/intermediate-mass stars S Mon and IRS 1/2 in the NGC 2264 star-forming region …

Far and extreme ultraviolet radiation fields and consequent disc destruction in star-forming regions

RJ Parker, RB Nicholson… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The first stages of planet formation usually occur when the host star is still in a (relatively)
dense star-forming region, where the effects of the external environment may be important …

External photoevaporation of protoplanetary disks: does location matter?

RJ Parker, HL Alcock, RB Nicholson… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Many theoretical studies have shown that external photoevaporation from massive stars can
severely truncate, or destroy altogether, the gaseous protoplanetary disks around young …

Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way-VII. Tidal parameters and mass function

A Just, AE Piskunov, JH Klos, DA Kovaleva… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Aims. We built Galactic open star cluster mass functions (CMFs) for different age sub-
samples and spatial locations in the wider solar neighbourhood. Here, we present a simple …