Supersonic turbulence, filamentary accretion and the rapid assembly of massive stars and discs

We present a detailed computational study of the assembly of protostellar discs and massive stars in molecular clouds with supersonic turbulence. We follow the evolution of large-scale filamentary structures in a cluster-forming clump down to protostellar length-scales by means of very highly resolved, 3D adaptive mesh refined (AMR) simulations, and show how accretion discs and massive stars form in such environments. We find that an initially …