Bringing Stellar Evolution & Feedback Together: Summary of proposals from the Lorentz Center Workshop, 2022

TL;DR

This paper summarizes discussions from a 2022 workshop on how stellar evolution and feedback influence the universe, highlighting key areas for future research to better understand star-environment interactions.

Contribution

It consolidates expert insights on the complex relationship between stellar evolution and feedback, proposing new directions for interdisciplinary research.

Findings

Identified gaps in understanding stellar feedback mechanisms

Highlighted importance of multi-scale modeling in astrophysics

Suggested collaborative approaches for future studies

Abstract

Stars strongly impact their environment, and shape structures on all scales throughout the universe, in a process known as ``feedback''. Due to the complexity of both stellar evolution and the physics of larger astrophysical structures, there remain many unanswered questions about how feedback operates, and what we can learn about stars by studying their imprint on the wider universe. In this white paper, we summarize discussions from the Lorentz Center meeting `Bringing Stellar Evolution and Feedback Together' in April 2022, and identify key areas where further dialogue can bring about radical changes in how we view the relationship between stars and the universe they live in.