Formation and Evolution of Protostellar Disks in Young Star Clusters: Implications for the Origin of Binary Stars and Substellar Objects

• Applicant: Professor Ralf Klessen, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2005 to 2011
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5452032

• Final Report Year: 2011

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• “Clump Life times and the Initial Mass Function”. 2007, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 379, 57 – 62
  Clark, P. C., Bonnell, I. A., Klessen, R.
  
• “The First Stellar Cluster”. 2008, The Astrophysical Journal, 672, 757 – 764
  Clark, P. C., Glover, S. C. O., Klessen, R. S.
  
• “The Star Formation Efficiency and its Relation to Variations in the Initial Mass Function”. 2008, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 386, 3 – 10
  Clark, P. C., Bonnell, I. A., Klessen, R. S.
  
• “Clump morphology and evolution in MHD simulations of molecular cloud formation”. 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron. Soc., 398, 1082 – 1092
  Banerjee, R., Vázquez-Semadeni, E., Hennebelle, P., Klessen, R. S.
  
• “Fragmentation in molecular clouds and its connection to the IMF”. 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron. Soc., 396, 830 – 841
  Smith, R. J., Clark, P. C., Bonnell, I. A.
  
• “The Clustering Behavior of Pre-Main Sequence Stars in NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud”. 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, 694, 367 – 375
  Schmeja, S., Gouliermis, D. A., Klessen, R. S.
  
• “HII Regions: Witnesses to Massive Star Formation”. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 711, 1017 – 1028
  Peters, T., Banerjee, R., Klessen, R. S., Mac Low, M.-M., Galván-Madrid, R., Keto, E. R.
  
• “Modeling Collapse and Accretion in Turbulent Gas Clouds: Implementation and Comparison of Sink Particles in AMR and SPH”. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 713, 269 – 290
  Federrath, C., Banerjee, R., Clark, P. C., Klessen, R. S.