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We present a survey of 28 molecular outflows driven by low-mass protostars, all of which are sufficiently isolated spatially and/or kinematically to fully separate into individual outflows. Using a combination of new and archival data from…

The formation and early evolution of low mass young stellar objects (YSOs) are investigated using three-dimensional non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics simulations. We investigate the evolution of YSOs up to ~ 10^4 yr after protostar formation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Y. Tsukamoto , M. N. Machida , H. Susa , H. Nomura , S. Inutsuka

We investigate the observational signatures of outflow rotation in protostellar systems using magnetohydrodynamics simulations of protostellar evolution with radiative transfer and synthetic observation. The velocity gradient perpendicular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Yusuke Aso , Masahiro N. Machida

Brown dwarf formation and star formation efficiency are studied using a nested grid simulation that covers five orders of magnitude in spatial scale (10^4 - 0.1AU). Starting with a rotating magnetized compact cloud with a mass of 0.22…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

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

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

Recent high-resolution observations have enabled detailed investigations of the circumstellar environments around Class 0/I protostars. Several studies have reported that the infall velocity of the envelope is a few times smaller than the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Shingo Hirano , Yuri Aikawa , Masahiro N. Machida

The majority of stars are thought to form in clusters. Cluster formation in dense clumps of molecular clouds is strongly influenced, perhaps controlled, by supersonic turbulence. We have previously shown that the turbulence in regions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

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

Young stars are associated with prominent outflows of molecular gas. The ejection of gas via these outflows is believed to remove angular momentum from the protostellar system, thus permitting young stars to grow by accretion of material…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-16 Per Bjerkeli , Matthijs H. D. van der Wiel , Daniel Harsono , Jon P. Ramsey , Jes K. Jørgensen

We investigate the driving mechanism of outflows and jets in star formation process using resistive MHD nested grid simulations. We found two distinct flows in the collapsing cloud core: Low-velocity outflows (sim 5 km/s) with a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We investigate the role of mass infall in the formation and evolution of protostars. To avoid ad hoc initial and boundary conditions, we consider the infall resulting self-consistently from modeling the formation of stellar clusters in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

Even today in our Galaxy, stars form from gas cores in a variety of environments, which may affect the properties of resulting star and planetary systems. Here we study the role of pressure, parameterized via ambient clump mass surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Yichen Zhang , Jonathan C. Tan

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 investigate protostellar collapse of molecular cloud cores by numerical simulations, taking into account turbulence and magnetic fields. By using the adaptive mesh refinement technique, the collapse is followed over a wide dynamic range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa

We use one-dimensional two-zone time-dependent accretion disk models to study the long-term evolution of protostellar disks subject to mass addition from the collapse of a rotating cloud core. Our model consists of a constant surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhaohuan Zhu , Lee Hartmann , Charles Gammie

There is clear observational evidence that the main Class 0/I stages of the star formation process are associated with powerful collimated outflows (jets), which sometimes propagate up to distances as large as $10^{4-5}$ au scales in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 A. Rodríguez-González , P. R. Rivera-Ortiz , Z. Meliani , E. Alquicira-Peláez , A. Durán , Luis A. Zapata

We present our current understanding of the formation and early evolution of protostars, protoplanetary disks, and the driving of outflows as dictated by the interplay of magnetic fields and partially ionized gas in molecular cloud cores.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Anaëlle Maury , Benoît Commerçon , Felipe O. Alves , Erin G. Cox , Nami Sakai , Tom Ray , Bo Zhao , Masahiro N. Machida

The driving mechanism of massive outflows observed in high-mass star-forming regions is investigated using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and protostellar evolution calculations. In our previous paper, we showed that the mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Yuko Matsushita , Yuya Sakurai , Takashi Hosokawa , Masahiro N. Machida

Forming massive stars launch outflows of magnetic origin, which in fact serve as a marker for finding sites of massive star formation. However, both the theoretical and observational study of the mechanisms that intervene in the formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 André Oliva , Rolf Kuiper