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We investigate the formation of circumstellar disks and outflows subsequent to the collapse of molecular cloud cores with the magnetic field and turbulence. Numerical simulations are performed by using an adaptive mesh refinement to follow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Observed protostellar outflows exhibit a variety of asymmetrical features, including remarkable unipolar outflows and bending outflows. Revealing the formation and early evolution of such asymmetrical protostellar outflows, especially the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-08 Daisuke Takaishi , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Miyu Kido , Shigehisa Takakuwa , Yoshiaki Misugi , Yuki Kudoh , Yasushi Suto

The role of outflows in the formation of stars and the protostellar disks that generate them is a central question in astrophysics. Outflows are associated with star formation across the entire stellar mass spectrum. In this review, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Ralph E. Pudritz , Tom P. Ray

In star formation, magnetic fields act as a cosmic angular momentum extractor that increases mass accretion rates onto protostars and in the process, creates spectacular outflows. However, recently it has been argued that this magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Dennis F. Duffin , Ralph E. Pudritz

The protostellar outflows of wide-separation forming binaries frequently appear misaligned. We use magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the alignment of protostellar spin and molecular outflows for forming binary pairs. We show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Stella S. R. Offner , Michael M. Dunham , Katherine I. Lee , Hector G. Arce , Drummond B. Fielding

Dynamical collapses of magnetized molecular cloud cores are studied with magnetohydrodynamical simulations from the run-away collapse phase to the accretion phase. In the run-away collapse phase, a disk threaded by magnetic field lines is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kohji Tomisaka

Most stars form in binaries and the evolution of their discs remains poorly understood. To shed light on this subject, we carry out 3D ideal MHD simulations with the AMR code FLASH of binary star formation for separations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-14 Rajika L. Kuruwita , Christoph Federrath

The formation and evolution of a circumstellar disk in magnetized cloud cores is investigated from prestellar core stage until sim 10^4 yr after protostar formation. In the circumstellar disk, fragmentation first occurs due to gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We carry out magnetohydrodynamical simulations with FLASH of the formation of a single, a tight binary ($a\sim$2.5 AU) and a wide binary star ($a\sim$45 AU). We study the outflows and jets from these systems to understand the contributions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Rajika Kuruwita , Christoph Federrath , Michael Ireland

(abridged) The nature of early Class 0/I protostellar discs is not clearly understood. Early protostellar discs are needed to drive molecular outflows and jets observed in star forming regions, but there has been some debate to how they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Dennis F. Duffin , Ralph E. Pudritz , Daniel Seifried , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

Recent observations have suggested that circumstellar disks may commonly form around young stellar objects. Although the formation of circumstellar disks can be a natural result of the conservation of angular momentum in the parent cloud,…

Through the magnetic braking and the launching of protostellar outflows, magnetic fields play a major role in the regulation of angular momentum in star formation, which directly impacts the formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierre Marchand , Kengo Tomida , Kei Tanaka , Benoît Commerçon , Gilles Chabrier

The driving mechanism of protostellar outflows and jets and their effects on the star formation process obtained from recent theoretical and numerical studies are described. Low-velocity outflows are driven by an outer region of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Masahiro N. Machida

(Abridged) In this review we focus on the observations and theory of the formation of early disks and outflows, and their connections with the first phases of planet formation. Large rotationally supported circumstellar disks, although…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhi-Yun Li , Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz , Jes K. Jørgensen , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Anaëlle Maury

The formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk in the collapsing molecular cloud is investigated from the prestellar stage resolving both the molecular cloud core and the protostar itself. In the collapsing cloud, the first adiabatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto

The origin of disks surrounding young stars has direct implications for our understanding of the formation of planetary systems. In the interstellar clouds from which star form, angular momentum is regulated by magnetic fields, preventing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde

Truncated abstract: The formation of a protostellar disc is a natural outcome during the star formation process. As gas in a molecular cloud core collapses under self-gravity, the angular momentum of the gas will slow its collapse on small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 James Wurster , Zhi-Yun Li

Star formation proceeds via the collapse of a molecular cloud core over multiple dynamical timescales. Turbulence within cores results in a spatially non-uniform angular momentum of the cloud, causing a stochastic variation in orientation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher Spalding , Konstantin Batygin , Fred C. Adams

We investigate the driving mechanism of outflows and jets in star formation process using resistive MHD nested grid simulations. We found two distinct flows in the collapsing cloud core: Low-velocity outflows (sim 5 km/s) with a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

The formation of binary stars is highly influenced by magnetic fields, which play a crucial role in transporting angular momentum. We conducted three-dimensional numerical simulations of binary star accretion via a circumbinary disk, taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Tomoaki Matsumoto
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