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Forming clusters within clusters: How 30 Doradus recollapsed and gave birth again

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arxiv 1710.02747 v1 pith:WZZL3H34 submitted 2017-10-07 astro-ph.GA

Forming clusters within clusters: How 30 Doradus recollapsed and gave birth again

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The 30 Doradus Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) contains the massive starburst cluster NGC 2070 with a massive and probably younger stellar sub clump at its center: R136. It is not clear how such a massive inner cluster could form several million years after the older stars in NGC 2070, given that stellar feedback is usually thought to expel gas and inhibit further star formation. Using the recently developed 1D feedback scheme WARPFIELD to scan a large range of cloud and cluster properties, we show that an age offset of several million years between the stellar populations is in fact to be expected given the interplay between feedback and gravity in a giant molecular cloud (GMC) with a density $\gtrsim 500$ cm$^{-3}$ due to re-accretion of gas onto the older stellar population. Neither capture of field stars nor gas retention inside the cluster have to be invoked in order to explain the observed age offset in NGC 2070 as well as the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) around it.

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