Farias, J.P., Smith, R., Fellhauer, M. et al. (4 more authors) (2015) The difficult early stages of embedded star clusters and the importance of the pre-gas expulsion virial ratio. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450 (3). pp. 2451-2458. ISSN 0035-8711
Abstract
We examine the effects of gas expulsion on initially substructured distributions of stars. We perform N-body simulations of the evolution of these distributions in a static background potential to mimic the gas. We remove the static potential instantaneously to model gas expulsion. We find that the exact dynamical state of the cluster plays a very strong role in affecting a cluster's survival, especially at early times: they may be entirely destroyed or only weakly affected. We show that knowing both detailed dynamics and relative star–gas distributions can provide a good estimate of the post-gas expulsion state of the cluster, but even knowing these is not an absolute way of determining the survival or otherwise of the cluster.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society©: 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | methods: numerical; stars: formation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2017 14:52 |
Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2017 14:52 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv790 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnras/stv790 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122716 |