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11/3/16: SO/NOAO Joint Colloquium Series: Stella Offner, UMass-Amherst

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Title:The Impact of Stellar Feedback on Star Cluster Formation

Abstract:
Forming low-mass stars influence their surroundings through a variety of feedback processes. However, because they are less energetic than high-mass stars, their contributions are often discounted. In this talk, I will present numerical simulations of forming stars modeling the impact of heating, protostellar outflows and winds from main sequence B-type stars. I will discuss the role of these processes in star formation and quantify how such feedback sets the IMF, stellar multiplicity, the star formation efficiency of dense gas, and molecular cloud turbulence.

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