Star clusters across cosmic time

MR Krumholz, CF McKee… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Star clusters stand at the intersection of much of modern astrophysics: the ISM, gravitational
dynamics, stellar evolution, and cosmology. Here, we review observations and theoretical …

Accretion onto pre-main-sequence stars

L Hartmann, G Herczeg, N Calvet - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Accretion through circumstellar disks plays an important role in star formation and in
establishing the properties of the regions in which planets form and migrate. The …

Star formation in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

RC Kennicutt Jr, NJ Evans - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
We review progress over the past decade in observations of large-scale star formation, with
a focus on the interface between extragalactic and Galactic studies. Methods of measuring …

Massive star formation

JC Tan, MT Beltrán, P Caselli, F Fontani… - … and Planets VI, 2014 - books.google.com
The enormous radiative and mechanical luminosities of massive stars impact a vast range of
scales and processes, from the reionization of the universe, to the evolution of galaxies, to …

The big problems in star formation: the star formation rate, stellar clustering, and the initial mass function

MR Krumholz - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Star formation lies at the center of a web of processes that drive cosmic evolution:
generation of radiant energy, synthesis of elements, formation of planets, and development …

The role of magnetic fields in setting the star formation rate and the initial mass function

MR Krumholz, C Federrath - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high
enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the …

3D mapping of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with Gaia DR2

E Zari, H Hashemi, AGA Brown, K Jardine… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
We study the three dimensional arrangement of young stars in the solar neighbourhood
using the second release of the Gaia mission (Gaia DR2) and we provide a new, original …

The stellar membership of the taurus star-forming region

KL Luhman - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The high-precision astrometry from the second data release of the Gaia mission has made it
possible to greatly improve the census of members of nearby clusters and associations. I …

Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS)-VII. Sulfur elemental abundance

A Fuente, P Rivière-Marichalar, L Beitia-Antero… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Gas phase Elemental abundances in molecular CloudS (GEMS) is an IRAM 30-m
Large Program aimed at determining the elemental abundances of carbon (C), oxygen (O) …

Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the formation of orion-like star clusters. II. The initial mass function from winds, turbulence, and radiation

MR Krumholz, RI Klein, CF McKee - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a series of simulations of the formation of a star cluster similar to the Orion Nebula
Cluster (ONC), including both radiative transfer and protostellar outflows, and starting from …