The Multi-Scale Physics of Star and Cluster Formation — From Molecular Clouds to Stellar Feedback (B02)

• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2011 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 138713538

Understanding how star clusters form and how their stellar feedback affects the surrounding interstellar medium is a key problem in Milky Way studies. We will quantify the physics of star formation and feedback using a combined numerical and observational approach, building a database of semi-analytical cluster feedback models and using it to make predictions for important observable quantities. We will use state-of-the-art 3-D simulations to benchmark our semi-analytical models. We will also apply a novel statistical method to Large Magellanic Cloud observations and compare the empirical timeline of star-forming regions with the predictions of our numerical models.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 881: The Milky Way System
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Cornelis Petrus Dullemond, until 12/2014; Professor Dr. Simon Glover, Ph.D., since 1/2015; Professor Dr. Ralf Klessen, Ph.D.; Dr. Diederik Kruijssen, from 1/2019 until 7/2022; Privatdozentin Dr. Geneviève A. Parmentier, from 1/2015 until 12/2018; Professor Dr. Rainer Spurzem, until 12/2014