Speaker
Ms
Tine Colman
(ICS, University of Zurich)
Description
Understanding the stellar initial mass function has been a long standing problem in star formation. Recently, a new theory has been proposed that puts forward the idea that tidal forces caused by young stars prevent the formation of other stars within a certain radius. To study this, I ran a set of turbulent box simulations with ramses and analyzed the tidal field around new born stars. This gave us insight in how tidal forces can determine the mass of a star. In this talk I will present the simulations and discuss the results.
