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The collapse of the magnetic rotating protostellar cloud with mass of $10\,M_{\odot}$ is numerically studied. The initial ratios of the thermal, magnetic, and rotational energies of the cloud to the modulus of its gravitational energy are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Natalya S. Kargaltseva , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov , Alexander E. Dudorov , Andrey G. Zhilkin

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

Fragmentation in a gravitationally unstable accretion disk can be an important pathway for forming stellar/planetary companions. To characterize quantitatively the condition for and outcome of fragmentation under realistic thermodynamics,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Wenrui Xu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone

We use high resolution 3D SPH simulations to study the evolution of self-gravitating binary protoplanetary disks. Heating by shocks and cooling are included. We consider different orbital separations and masses of the disks and central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

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

In the context of star and planet formation, understanding the formation of disks is of fundamental importance. Previous studies found that the magnetic field has a very strong impact on the collapse of a prestellar cloud, particularly in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Hennebelle , A. Ciardi

We investigate collapse of magnetic protostellar clouds of mass $10$ and $1 M_{\odot}$. The collapse is simulated numerically using the two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code `Enlil'. The simulations show that protostellar clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov , Alexander E. Dudorov , Natalya S. Kargaltseva , Andrey G. Zhilkin

Gravitational instability is one of considerable mechanisms to explain the formation of giant planets. We study the gravitational stability for the protoplanetary disks around a protostar. The temperature and Toomre's Q-value are calculated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Shigeo S. Kimura , Toru Tsuribe

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

We investigate the collapse and fragmentation of low-mass, trans-sonically turbulent prestellar cores, using SPH simulations. The initial conditions are slightly supercritical Bonnor-Ebert spheres, all with the same density profile, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Walch , T. Naab , A. Burkert , A. Whitworth , M. Gritschneder

Context. Protoplanetary discs are formed due to the fragmentation and collapse of giant molecular cloud cores. The physical properties and structure of a formed disc are of great importance when studying the onset of planet formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 A. Anyiszonyan , Zs. Sándor

Isolated low-mass stars are formed, in the standard picture, from the collapse of dense cores condensed out of strongly magnetized molecular clouds. The dynamically collapsing inflow traps nearly half of the critical magnetic flux needed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhi-Yun Li

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…

We report the results of our three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulation of collapsing unmagnetized molecular cloud cores. We investigate the formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk and the clumps formed by disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shuichiro Inutsuka

We review the models and results of simulations of self-gravitating, gaseous protoplanetary disks in binary star systems. These models have been calculated by three different groups with three different computational methods, two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lucio Mayer , Alan Boss , Andrew F. Nelson

We use magnetic collapse models to place some constraints on the formation and angular momentum evolution of circumstellar disks which are embedded in magnetized cloud cores. Previous models have shown that the early evolution of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Shantanu Basu

Most analytic work to date on protostellar disks has focused on those in isolation from their environments. However, observations are now beginning to probe the earliest, most embedded phases of star formation, during which disks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kaitlin M. Kratter , Christopher D. Matzner , Mark R. Krumholz , .

We study numerically the evolution of rotating cloud cores, from the collapse of a magnetically supercritical core to the formation of a protostar and the development of a protostellar disk during the main accretion phase. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. I. Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

Due to the gas rich environments of early circumstellar disks, the gravitational collapse of cool, dense regions of the disk form fragments largely composed of gas. During formation, disk fragments may attain increased metallicities as they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-26 Hans Baehr , Hubert Klahr

Self-gravitating protostellar discs are unstable to fragmentation if the gas can cool on a time scale that is short compared to the orbital period. We use a combination of hydrodynamic simulations and N-body orbit integrations to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage , I. A. Bonnell , M. R. Bate , S. V. Jeffers , S. G. Vine