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We investigate the formation and early evolution of a protostellar disc from a magnetized pre-stellar core using non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations including ambipolar diffusion and Ohmic dissipation. The dynamical contraction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Wenrui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz

Models of the formation, evolution and photoevaporation of circumstellar disks are an essential ingredient in many theories of the formation of planetary systems. The ratio of disk mass over stellar mass in the circumstellar phase of a disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Visser , C. P. Dullemond

We present new numerical simulations in the thin-disk approximation which characterize the burst mode of protostellar accretion. The burst mode begins upon the formation of a centrifugally balanced disk around a newly formed protostar. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. I. Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

Planet-forming disks are fundamental objects thought to be inherited from large scale rotation, through the conservation of angular momentum during the collapse of a prestellar dense core. We investigate the possibility for a protostellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Antoine Verliat , Patrick Hennebelle , Anaëlle J. Maury , Mathilde Gaudel

We study rapidly accreting, gravitationally unstable disks with a series of global, three dimensional, numerical experiments using the code ORION. In this paper we conduct a numerical parameter study focused on protostellar disks, and show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kaitlin M. Kratter , Christopher D. Matzner , Mark R. Krumholz , Richard I. Klein

We present high-resolution zoom-in simulations of molecular clouds exposed to an interstellar radiation field and cosmic ray ionisation rate up to 1000 times stronger than that of the solar neighbourhood. We detail the evolution of the…

A model for massive stars is constructed by piecing together evolutionary algorithms for the protostellar structure, the environment, the inflow and the radiation feedback. We investigate specified accretion histories of constant,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael D. Smith

This series of papers investigates the early stages of planet formation by modeling the evolution of the gas and solid content of protostellar disks from the early T Tauri phase until complete dispersal of the gas. In this first paper, I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Garaud

Angular momentum transport within young massive protoplanetary discs may be dominated by self-gravity at radii where the disk is too weakly ionized to allow the development of the magneto-rotational instability. We use time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-15 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage

The early evolution of protostellar, star-forming discs, including their density structure, turbulence, magnetic dynamics, and accretion variability, remains poorly understood. We present high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Trey Qingyun Yang , Christoph Federrath

A new view of disk evolution is emerging from self-consistent numerical simulation modeling of the formation of circumstellar disks from the direct collapse of prestellar cloud cores. This has implications for many aspects of star and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Shantanu Basu , Eduard I. Vorobyov

Circumstellar disks are an integral part of the star formation process and the sites where planets are formed. Understanding the physical processes that drive their evolution, as disks evolve from optically thick to optically thin, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 Lucas A. Cieza

We investigate the structure of accretion disks around massive protostar applying steady state models of thin disks. The thin disk equations are solved with proper opacities for dust and gas taking into account the huge temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 B. Vaidya , C. Fendt , H. Beuther

In the standard picture for low-mass star formation, a dense molecular cloud undergoes gravitational collapse to form a protostellar system consisting of a new central star, a circumstellar disk, and a surrounding envelope of remaining…

The birth process of circumstellar disks remains poorly constrained due to observational and numerical challenges. Recent numerical works have shown that the small-scale physics, often wrapped into a sub-grid model, play a crucial role in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon

We investigate the formation of protoplanetary disks around nine solar mass stars formed in the context of a (40 pc)$^3$ Giant Molecular Cloud model, using RAMSES adaptive-mesh refinement simulations extending over a scale range of about 4…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Michael Kuffmeier , Troels Haugboelle , Åke Nordlund

The growing process of both a young protostar and a circumstellar disk is investigated. Viscous evolution of a disk around a single star is considered with a model where a disk increases its mass by dynamically accreting envelope and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Takuya Ohtani , Toru Tsuribe

We review advances in the modeling of protoplanetary disks. This review will focus on the regions of the disk beyond the dust sublimation radius, i.e. beyond 0.1 - 1 AU, depending on the stellar luminosity. We will be mostly concerned with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Dullemond , D. Hollenbach , I. Kamp , P. D'Alessio

Young stars are expected to gain most of their mass by accretion from a disk that forms around them as a result of angular momentum conservation in the collapsing protostellar cloud. Accretion initially proceeds at high rates of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman R. Rafikov

In our previous study (Tsukamoto {\it et al.} 2023), we investigated formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks with 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering dust growth, and found that the modified equations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yusuke Tsukamoto