OB Associations and their origins

NJ Wright - New Astronomy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
OB associations are unbound groups of young stars made prominent by their bright OB
members, and have long been thought to be the expanded remnants of dense star clusters …

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 and feedback in different environments of a Milky Way-like galaxy

AA Ali, CL Dobbs, TJR Bending… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
It remains unclear how galactic environment affects star formation and stellar cluster
properties. This is difficult to address in Milky Way-mass galaxy simulations because 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 …

Observational bias and young massive cluster characterization − II. Can Gaia accurately observe young clusters and associations?

ASM Buckner, T Naylor, CL Dobbs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Observations of clusters suffer from issues such as completeness, projection effects,
resolving individual stars, and extinction. As such, how accurate measurements and …

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 …

Short-lived radioisotope enrichment in star-forming regions from stellar winds and supernovae

RJ Parker, T Lichtenberg, M Patel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The abundance of the short-lived radioisotopes 26Al and 60Fe in the early Solar system is
usually explained by the Sun either forming from pre-enriched material, or the Sun's …

Unlocking Galactic Wolf–Rayet stars with Gaia DR2 – II. Cluster and association membership

G Rate, PA Crowther, RJ Parker - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Galactic Wolf–Rayet (WR) star membership of star-forming regions can be used
to constrain the formation environments of massive stars. Here, we utilize Gaia DR2 …

Dynamical evolution of fractal structures in star-forming regions

EC Daffern-Powell, RJ Parker - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The-parameter is used extensively to quantify the spatial distributions of stars and gas in star-
forming regions as well as older clusters and associations. It quantifies the amount of …

On the origin of planetary-mass objects in NGC 1333

RJ Parker, C Alves de Oliveira - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The dominant formation mechanism of brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects (PMOs) in
star-forming regions is presently uncertain. Do they form like stars, via the collapse and …