Star Formation Mitosis: The Effects of Particle Splitting on the Star Formation Outcome

arXiv:2610.00513 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/mikegrudic/MakeCloud

Terminology

• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptive Mesh Refinement — 1× in this paper
• Ambipolar Diffusion — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• FORGE'd in the Early Universe: The Effect of Protostellar Outflows on Pop III Accretion
• Protostellar disc structure and dynamics during star formation from cloud-scale initial conditions

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