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I am interested in a variety of topics in star formation. Primarily, 

  • The formation of massive stars and massive stellar clusters.
  • How stellar feedback -- the injection of energy and momentum from massive stars -- limits star formation and affects the dynamics of HII regions.

  • Star Cluster disruption and it’s dependence on total stellar mass.

 

The goal of my research is to understand which stellar feedback processes dominate the star formation process for massive star clusters and how the energy and momentum injection form the most massive stars in these clusters may lead to the cluster's ultimate disruption. I work on numerical simulations using the adaptive mesh refinement code ORION to work on these problems.

Referred Publications

 

  1. “Gone with the Wind: Where is the Missing Wind Energy from Massive Star Clusters?”, Rosen, A.L., Krumholz, M.R., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2014, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442, 2701, NASA ADS

  2. “What Sets the Initial Rotation Rates of Massive Stars?”, Rosen, A.L., Krumholz, M.R., & Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2012, The Astrophysical Journal, 745, 145, NASA ADS

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