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We have performed two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the collapse of isolated axisymmetric clouds condensing via radiative cooling in a primordial background gas. In order to study the development of the so-called…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chang Hyun Baek , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu

In this paper, gravothermal oscillations are investigated in two-component clusters with a range of different stellar mass ratios and total component mass ratios. The critical number of stars at which gravothermal oscillations first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Philip G. Breen , Douglas C. Heggie

We present a series of simulations of the fragmentation of a molecular cloud, leading to the formation of a cluster of protostellar cores. The purpose of these simulations is to address a specific numerical problem called artificial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hugo Martel , Neal J. Evans , Paul R. Shapiro

We model molecular cloud fragmentation with thin disk non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations that include ambipolar diffusion and partial ionization that transitions from primarily ultraviolet dominated to cosmic ray dominated regimes.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nicole D. Bailey , Shantanu Basu

The current study was developed to provide a database of relatively simple numerical simulations of protostellar collapse, as a template library for observations of cores and very young protostars, and for researchers who wish to test their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Neil Vaytet , Troels Haugbølle

We study the gravitational collapse in modified gravitational theories. In particular, we analyze a general $f(R)$ model with uniformly collapsing cloud of self-gravitating dust particles. This analysis shares analogies with the formation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , B. Montes Nuñez

Models of self-gravitating gas in the early stages of pressure-free collapse are compared for initial states which are equilibrium layers, cylinders, and Bonnor-Ebert spheres. For each geometrical case the density profile has an inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philip C. Myers

We test here the first stage of a route of modifications to be applied to the public GADGET2 code for dynamically identifying accretion centers during the collision process of two adjacent and identical gas cores. Each colliding core has a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 G. Arreaga-Garcia , J. Klapp

We present numerical simulations of an isothermal turbulent gas undergoing gravitational collapse, aimed at testing for ``logatropic'' behavior of the form $P_t \sim \log \rho$, where $P_t$ is the ``turbulent pressure'' and $\rho$ is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , J. Canto , S. Lizano

After the recombination of Hydrogen, primordial molecules such as H_2, $HD$ can be formed.The formation of structures in the post-recombination gaseous medium is commonly explained by primordial density fluctuations. In a self-gravitating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Puy , M. Signore

This is the first paper about the fragmentation and mass outflow in the molecular cloud by using three-dimensional MHD nested-grid simulations. The binary star formation process is studied paying particular attention to the fragmentation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro N Machida , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

A Lagrangian, particle-based numerical method (tree code gravity plus smoothed particle hydrodynamics) was used to simulate clump-clump collisions occurring within GMCs. The collisions formed shock-compressed layers, out of which condensed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. S. Bhattal , N. Francis , S. J. Watkins , A. P. Whitworth

Collapse and reverse to collapse explosion transition in self-gravitating systems are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. A microcanonical ensemble of point particles confined to a spherical box is considered; the particles interact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Ispolatov , M. Karttunen

Galactic winds exhibit a multiphase structure that consists of hot-diffuse and cold-dense phases. Here we present high-resolution idealised simulations of the interaction of a hot supersonic wind with a cold cloud with the moving-mesh code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Martin Sparre , Christoph Pfrommer , Mark Vogelsberger

Our previous works have shown the statistical mechanics of self-gravitating system. In this paper, we will show its thermodynamics and compare our results with observations and simulations. We propose that our statistical mechanics can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-30 Dong-Biao Kang

The study of protostellar collapse or infall has proven unusually difficult and controversial. Some historical context will be provided, against which recent advances can be measured. We now have a substantial number of objects with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. J. Evans

A physical model and two-dimensional numerical method for computing the evolution and spectra of protostellar clouds are described. The physical model is based on a system of magneto-gasdynamical equations, including ohmic and ambipolar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. G. Zhilkin , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , S. N. Zamozdra

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

Astrophysical systems, such as clumps that form star clusters share a density profile that is close to $\rho \sim r^{-2}$. We prove analytically this density profile is the result of the scale-free nature of the gravitational collapse.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-17 Guang-Xing Li

We present two-dimensional simulations of finite, self-gravitating gaseous sheets. Unlike the case of infinite sheets, such configurations do not constitute equilibrium states but instead are subject to global collapse unless countered by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andreas Burkert , Lee Hartmann