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Using resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation, we investigate circumstellar disk formation in a strongly magnetized cloud. As the initial state, an isolated cloud core embedded in a low-density interstellar medium with a uniform magnetic…

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

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 consider formation of accretion disks from a realistically turbulent molecular gas using 3D MHD simulations. In particular, we analyze the effect of the fast turbulent reconnection described by the Lazarian & Vishniac (1999) model for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Diego F. González-Casanova , Reinaldo Santos-Lima , Alexander Lazarian

Stars form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. A dynamically important magnetic field presents a significant obstacle to the formation of protostellar disks. Recent studies have shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Hsien Shang

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

We study mass accretion and ejection in the vicinity of massive star forming cores using high-resolution (5 au) 3D AMR numerical simulations. We investigate the mechanisms at the origin of outflows and characterise the properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Benoît Commerçon , Matthias González , Raphaël Mignon-Risse , Patrick Hennebelle , Neil Vaytet

Stars form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. In the simplest case of a laminar (non-turbulent) core with the magnetic field aligned with the rotation axis, both analytic considerations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Hsien Shang

We revisit our original papers on the burst mode of accretion by incorporating a detailed energy balance equation into a thin-disk model for the formation and evolution of circumstellar disks around low-mass protostars.Our model includes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

We report the first three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations of protostellar collapse with and without Ohmic dissipation.We take into account many physical processes required to study star formation processes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kengo Tomida , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Yasunori Hori , Satoshi Okuzumi , Masahiro N. Machida , Kazuya Saigo

The formation epoch of protostellar disks is debated because of the competing roles of rotation, turbulence, and magnetic fields in the early stages of low-mass star formation. Magnetohydrodynamics simulations of collapsing cores predict…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 M. Gerin , J. Pety , B. Commercon , A. Fuente , J. Cernicharo , N. Marcelino , A. Ciardi , D. C. Lis , E. Roueff , H. A. Wootten , E. Chapillon

The magnetic field of a molecular cloud core may play a role in the formation of circumstellar disks in the core. We present magnetic field morphologies in protostellar cores of 16 targets in the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

Abridged: We use three-dimensional SPH simulations to investigate the collapse of low-mass prestellar cores and the formation and early evolution of protostellar discs. The initial conditions are slightly supercritical Bonnor-Ebert spheres…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Walch , A. Burkert , A. Whitworth , T. Naab , M. Gritschneder

We investigate early, $z > 3$, galaxy formation in a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a close, early-forming Milky Way (MW) analog extracted from TNG50 simulation and resimulated with detailed modeling of cold interstellar medium (ISM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-05 Vadim A. Semenov , Charlie Conroy , Aaron Smith , Ewald Puchwein , Lars Hernquist

We formulate the problem of the late accretion phase of the evolution of an isothermal magnetic disk surrounding a forming star. The evolution is described by the six-fluid MHD equations, accounting for the presence of neutrals, atomic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

While it is generally accepted that the magnetic field and its non-ideal effects play important roles during the stellar formation, simple models of pure hydrodynamics and angular momentum conservation are still widely employed in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yueh-Ning Lee , Sébastien Charnoz , Patrick Hennebelle

In the present-day universe, magnetic fields play such essential roles in star formation as angular momentum transport and outflow driving, which control circumstellar disc formation/fragmentation and also the star formation efficiency.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

The formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks are governed by a wide variety of physical processes during a gravitational collapse. Observations have begun probing disks in their earliest stages, and have favored the…

We investigate whether or not the low ionisation fractions in molecular cloud cores can solve the `magnetic braking catastrophe', where magnetic fields prevent the formation of circumstellar discs around young stars. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 James Wurster , Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

Are magnetic fields important in primordial star formation? Assuming that star formation occurs via an accretion disk that is turbulent, initially because of local gravitational instability, we calculate the disk structure for realistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan C. Tan , Eric G. Blackman

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