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2001MNRAS.323..988G - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 323, 988-994 (2001/June-1)
The effect of gas loss on the formation of bound stellar clusters.
GEYER M.P. and BURKERT A.
Abstract (from CDS):
Two sets of numerical N-body simulations are presented. As a first simplified approach we treat the residual gas as an external potential. The gas expulsion is approximated by reducing the gas mass to zero on a given time-scale, which is treated as a free parameter. In a second set of simulations we use smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to follow the dynamics of the outflowing residual gas self-consistently. We investigate cases where gas outflow is induced by an outwards propagating shock front and where the whole gas cloud is heated homogeneously, leading to ejection.
If the stars are in virial equilibrium with the gaseous environment initially, bound clusters only form in regions where the local SFE is larger than 50 per cent or where the gas expulsion time-scale is long compared with the dynamical time-scale. A small initial velocity dispersion of the stars leads to a compaction of the cluster during the expulsion phase and reduces the SFE needed to form bound clusters to less than 10 per cent.
Abstract Copyright: The Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s): stars: formation - globular clusters: general - open clusters and associations: general
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