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 …

Modeling cosmic reionization

NY Gnedin, P Madau - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2022 - Springer
The transformation of cold neutral intergalactic hydrogen into a highly ionized warm plasma
marks the end of the cosmic dark ages and the beginning of the age of galaxies. The details …

Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts

A Dekel, KC Sarkar, Y Birnboim… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations indicate a surprising excess of luminous galaxies at z∼ 10
and above, consistent with efficient conversion of the accreted gas into stars, unlike the …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Bursty star formation naturally explains the abundance of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn

G Sun, CA Faucher-Giguère… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent discoveries of a significant population of bright galaxies at cosmic dawn $\left
(z\gtrsim 10\right) $ have enabled critical tests of cosmological galaxy formation models. In …

The dynamics and outcome of star formation with jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae in concert

MY Grudić, D Guszejnov, SSR Offner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the first giant molecular cloud (GMC) simulation to follow the formation of
individual stars and their feedback from jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae, using the …

The lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
It remains a major challenge to derive a theory of cloud-scale (pc) star formation and
feedback, describing how galaxies convert gas into stars as a function of the galactic …

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 …

What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?

PF Hopkins, AB Gurvich, X Shen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As they grow, galaxies can transition from irregular/spheroidal with 'bursty'star formation
histories (SFHs), to discy with smooth SFHs. But even in simulations, the direct physical …

FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, C Wheeler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky
Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we …