Star formation in turbulent interstellar gas clouds

• Applicant: Professor Ralf Klessen, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2002 to 2011
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5338612

• Final Report Year: 2011

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• “Evolving Structures of Star-Forming Clusters”. 2006, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 449, 151 – 159
  Schmeja, S., Klessen, R.S.
  
• “Mass Spectra of Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores and the Relation to the Stellar Initial Mass Function”. 2006, The Astrophysical Journal, 637, 384 – 391
  Ballesteros-Paredes, J., Gazol-Patino, A., Kim, J., Klessen, R. S., Jappsen, A.-K., Tejero, E.
  
• “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. S.
  
• “The Stellar Mass Spectrum in Warm and Dusty Gas: Deviations from Salpeter in the Galactic Centre and in Circum-Nuclear Starburst Regions”. 2007, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 374, L29 – L33
  Klessen, R. S., Spaans, M., Jappsen, A.-K.
  
• “The Density Probability Distribution in Compressible Isothermal Turbulence: Solenoidal vs Compressive Forcing”. 2008, The Astrophysical Journal, 688, L79 – L82
  Federrath, C., Klessen, R. S., Schmidt, W.
  
• “The First Stellar Cluster”. 2008, The Astrophysical Journal, 672, 757 – 764
  Clark, P. C., Glover, S. C. O., Klessen, R. S.
  
• “Star Formation at Very Low Metallicity. IV. Fragmentation Does Not Depend on Metallicity for Cold Initial Conditions.”. 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, 696, 1065 – 1074
  Jappsen, A.-K., Klessen, R. S., Glover, S. C. O., Mac Low, M.-M.
  
• “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.
  
• “Accretion-Driven Turbulence as Universal Process: Galaxies, Molecular Clouds, and Protostellar Disks”. 2010, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 520, A17, 1 – 18
  Klessen, R. S., Hennebelle, P.
  
• “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.