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Starting from a prestellar core with a size of $1.2\times10^4$ AU, we calculate the evolution of a gravitationally collapsing core until $\sim2000$ yr after protostar formation using a three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Masahiro N. Machida , Shantanu Basu

The formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk in unmagnetized molecular clouds is investigated using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations from the prestellar core until the end of the main accretion phase. In collapsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

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 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

In star forming regions, we can observe different evolutionary stages of various objects and phenomena such as molecular clouds, protostellar jets and outflows, circumstellar disks, and protostars. However, it is difficult to directly…

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

We simulate the formation of a low metallicity (0.01 Zsun) stellar cluster in a dwarf galaxy at redshift z~14. Beginning with cosmological initial conditions, the simulation utilizes adaptive mesh refinement and sink particles to follow the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Chalence Safranek-Shrader , Michael Montgomery , Milos Milosavljevic , Volker Bromm

Newly formed stars are often observed to possess circumstellar disks, from which mass continues to be accreted onto the star and fed into outflowing jets, and which eventually may evolve into dusty debris disks and planetary systems. Recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Konigl

We have carried out hydro-dynamical simulations to investigate the formation and evolution of protostar and circumstellar disks from the prestellar cloud. As the initial state, we adopt the molecular cloud core with two non-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida

We study the formation and long-term evolution of primordial protostellar disks harbored by first stars using numerical hydrodynamics simulations in the thin-disk limit. The initial conditions are specified by pre-stellar cores with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Alexander L. DeSouza , Shantanu Basu

The birth process of circumstellar disks remains poorly constrained due to observational and numerical challenges. Recent numerical works have shown that the small-scale physics, often wrapped into a sub-grid model, play a crucial role in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon

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

The evolution of circumstellar discs is influenced by their surroundings. The relevant processes include external photoevaporation due to nearby stars, and dynamical truncations. The impact of these processes on disc populations depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Francisca Concha-Ramírez , Maite J. C. Wilhelm , Simon Portegies Zwart

We use time-dependent, one-dimensional disc models to investigate the evolution of protostellar discs that form through the collapse of molecular cloud cores and in which the primary transport mechanism is self-gravity. We assume that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. K. M. Rice , J. H. Mayo , P. J. Armitage

We present simulation results for the formation and long-term evolution of a primordial protostellar disk harbored by a first star. Using a 2+1D nonaxisymmetric thin disk numerical simulation, together with a barotropic relation for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 A. L. DeSouza , E. I. Vorobyov , S. Basu

We present a theoretical model for primordial star formation. First we describe the structure of the initial gas cores as virialized, quasi-hydrostatic objects in accord with recent high resolution numerical studies. The accretion rate can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan C. Tan , Christopher F. McKee

We discuss the factors influencing the formation and gravitational fragmentation of protostellar discs. We start with a review of how observations of prestellar cores can be analysed statistically to yield plausible initial conditions for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 A. P. Whitworth , O. D. Lomax

We investigate the formation of protostellar clusters during the collapse of dense molecular cloud cores with a focus on the evolution of potential and kinetic energy, the degree of substructure, and the early phase of mass segregation. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Federrath , Richard Allison , Robi Banerjee , Ralf Klessen

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

The very first stars to form in the Universe heralded an end to the cosmic dark ages and introduced new physical processes that shaped early cosmic evolution. Until now, it was thought that these stars lived short, solitary lives, with only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Rowan J. Smith , Thomas H. Greif , Ralf S. Klessen , Volker Bromm

Understanding the collapse of dense molecular cloud cores to stellar densities and the subsequent evolution of the protostar is of importance to model the feedback effects such an object has on its surrounding environment, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon
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