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Early dynamical evolution of young substructured clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

Julien Dorval
Affiliation:
Observatoire Astronomique, Université de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l’Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France email: julien.dorval@astro.unistra.fr email: christian.boily@astro.unistra.fr
Christian Boily
Affiliation:
Observatoire Astronomique, Université de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l’Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France email: julien.dorval@astro.unistra.fr email: christian.boily@astro.unistra.fr
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Stellar clusters form with a high level of substructure, inherited from the molecular cloud and the star formation process. Evidence from observations and simulations also indicate the stars in such young clusters form a subvirial system. The subsequent dynamical evolution can cause important mass loss, ejecting a large part of the birth population in the field. It can also imprint the stellar population and still be inferred from observations of evolved clusters. Nbody simulations allow a better understanding of these early twists and turns, given realistic initial conditions. Nowadays, substructured, clumpy young clusters are usually obtained through pseudo-fractal growth and velocity inheritance. We introduce a new way to create clumpy initial conditions through a ”Hubble expansion” which naturally produces self consistent clumps, velocity-wise. In depth analysis of the resulting clumps shows consistency with hydrodynamical simulations of young star clusters. We use these initial conditions to investigate the dynamical evolution of young subvirial clusters. We find the collapse to be soft, with hierarchical merging leading to a high level of mass segregation. The subsequent evolution is less pronounced than the equilibrium achieved from a cold collapse formation scenario.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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