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We numerically model the collapse of magnetic rotating protostellar clouds with mass of 10 $M_{sun}$. The simulations are carried out with the help of 2D MHD code Enlil. The structure of the cloud at the isothermal stage of the collapse is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 N. S. Kargaltseva , S. A. Khaibrakhmanov , A. E. Dudorov , S. N. Zamozdra , A. G. Zhilkin

Understanding how the release of stored magnetic energy contributes to the generation of non-thermal high energy particles during solar flares is an important open problem in solar physics. Magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Alexei Borissov , Thomas Neukirch , Eduard Kontar , James Threlfall , Clare Parnell

Pillars of Creation, one of the most recognized objects in the sky, are believed to be associated with the formation of young stars. However, so far, the formation and maintenance mechanism for the pillars are still not fully understood due…

Non-ideal MHD effects are thought to be a crucial component of the star-formation process. Numerically, several complications render the study of non-ideal MHD effects in 3D simulations extremely challenging and hinder our efforts of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-12 E. Agianoglou , A. Tritsis , K. Tassis

Filaments are special plasma phenomena embedded in the solar atmosphere, characterized by unique thermodynamic properties and magnetic structures. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are useful to investigate the eruption mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yihua Li , Yang Guo , Jinhan Guo , M. D. Ding , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

Magnetic fields are widely observed in the Universe in virtually all astrophysical objects, from individual stars to entire galaxies, even in the intergalactic medium, but their specific generation has long been debated. Due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier

During stellar evolution, especially in the PMS, stellar structure and rotation evolve significantly causing major changes in the dynamics and global flows of the star. We wish to assess the consequences of these changes on stellar dynamo,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Constance Emeriau-Viard , Allan Sacha Brun

Long-term ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity are performed for a massive neutron star formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. Neutrino radiation transport effects are taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

Beginning with cosmological initial conditions at z=100, we simulate the effects of magnetic fields on the formation of Population III stars and compare our results with the predictions of Paper I. We use Gadget-2 to follow the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-04 Athena Stacy , Christopher F. McKee , Aaron T. Lee , Richard I. Klein , Pak Shing Li

We perform a population synthesis of protoplanetary discs including infall with a total of $50\,000$ simulations using a 1D vertically integrated viscous evolution code, studying a large parameter space in final stellar mass. Initial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 O. Schib , C. Mordasini , N. Wenger , G. -D. Marleau , R. Helled

We describe the results of a sequence of simulations of gravitational collapse in a turbulent magnetized region. The parameters are chosen to be representative of molecular cloud material. We find that several protostellar cores and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Balsara , D. Ward-Thompson , R. M. Crutcher

We present two-dimensional, cylindrically symmetric simulations of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wide-angle winds interacting with a collapsing environment. These simulations have direct relevance to young stellar objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Gardiner , A. Frank , L. Hartmann

Solving the problem of fast eruptive events in magnetically dominated astrophysical plasmas requires the use of particularly well adapted numerical tools. Indeed, the central mechanism based on magnetic reconnection is determined by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Hubert Baty

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

We perform the first magnetohydrodynamical simulations of tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes. We consider stars with both tangled and ordered magnetic fields, for both grazing and deeply disruptive encounters. When the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 James Guillochon , Michael McCourt

We investigate the role of magnetic fields in the fragmentation of self-gravitating discs using 3D global ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations performed with the "phantom" smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. For initially toroidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Duncan Forgan , Daniel J. Price , Ian Bonnell

In the present work, with the help of fully 3-D smooth particle magnetohydodynamic (SPMHD) simulations, we explore the nonlinear effects of magnetic fields (in close equipartition with the gas) in the structure of radiatively cooling,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Adriano H. Cerqueira

Stars rarely form in isolation. Nearly half of the stars in the Milky Way have a companion, and this fraction increases in star-forming regions. However, why some dense cores and filaments form bound pairs while others form single stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Aaron T. Lee , Stella S. R. Offner , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Rachel A. Smullen , Pak Shing Li

An interaction between a star-disc system and another star will perturb the disc, possibly resulting in a significant modification of the disc structure and its properties. It is still unclear if such an encounter can trigger fragmentation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

We implement the constrained divergence cleaning algorithm of \citet{Tricco2016} into the cosmological smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) code OpenGadget3. Our implementation modifies the governing equations of SPMHD to allow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Daniel J. Price