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We investigate how the external medium surrounding prestellar cores affects the star formation process by conducting three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The initial cores follow critical Bonnor-Ebert profiles and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Shingo Nozaki , Masahiro N. Machida

(Abridged) In this review we focus on the observations and theory of the formation of early disks and outflows, and their connections with the first phases of planet formation. Large rotationally supported circumstellar disks, although…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhi-Yun Li , Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz , Jes K. Jørgensen , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Anaëlle Maury

We present SOFIA/FIFI-LS observations of three Class 0 and one Class I outflows (Cep E, HH 1, HH 212, and L1551 IRS5) in the far-infrared [O I]63mum and [O I]145mum transitions. Spectroscopic [O I]63mum maps enabled us to infer the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 T. Sperling , J. Eislöffel , B. Nisini , T. Giannini , C. Fischer , A. Krabbe

In star formation, magnetic fields act as a cosmic angular momentum extractor that increases mass accretion rates onto protostars and in the process, creates spectacular outflows. However, recently it has been argued that this magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Dennis F. Duffin , Ralph E. Pudritz

Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, the driving of protostellar jets is investigated in different star-forming cores with the parameters of magnetic field strength and mass accretion rate. Powerful high-velocity jets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 Masahiro N. Machida

We present the first large-scale, high-resolution simulations of dusty, star formation feedback-driven galactic outflows. Using the Cholla hydrodynamics code, we investigate dust sputtering in these environments for grains ranging in size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Helena M. Richie , Evan E. Schneider

Star formation in relic HII regions of the first stars is investigated using magneto-hydrodynamical simulations with a nested grid method that covers 10 orders of magnitude in spatial scale and 20 orders of magnitude in density contrast.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Masahiro N. Machida , Kazuyuki Omukai , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Molecular outflows are often detected originating from both protostellar and extragalactic sources. Studies of low-mass, isolated high-mass, and extragalactic sources reveal scaling relations connecting the force carried by an outflow and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 I. M. Skretas , L. E. Kristensen

Understanding the formation pathway for close-companion protostars is central to unraveling the processes that govern stellar multiplicity and very early star formation. We analyze a large sample of 51 Class 0/I close-companion protostellar…

Protostellar outflows crisscross the regions of star cluster formation, stirring turbulence and altering the evolution of the forming cluster. We model the stirring of turbulent motions by protostellar outflows, building on an observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christopher D. Matzner

Outflows play a pivotal role in star formation as one of its most visible markers and a means of transporting mass, momentum, and angular momentum from the infalling gas into the surrounding molecular cloud. Their wide reach (at least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Shantanu Basu , Mahmoud Sharkawi , Masahiro N. Machida

We present some important conclusions from recent calculations pertaining to the collapse of rotating molecular cloud cores with axial symmetry, corresponding to evolution of young stellar objects through classes 0 and begin of class I.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. M. Tscharnuter , J. Schönke , H. -P. Gail , E. Lüttjohann

Molecular outflows in the form of wide-angle winds and/or well-collimated jets are associated with young stellar objects of all luminosities. Independent studies have established that the mass outflow rate is proportional to L_bol^0.6 for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. S. Shepherd

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

Using resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations, the propagation of protostellar jets, the formation of circumstellar discs and the configuration of magnetic fields are investigated from the prestellar cloud phase until $\sim$500 yr after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Masahiro N. Machida , Shingo Hirano , Hideyuki Kitta

Understanding how material accretes onto the rotationally supported disk from the surrounding envelope of gas and dust in the youngest protostellar systems is important for describing how disks are formed. Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Travis J. Thieme , Shih-Ping Lai , Sheng-Jun Lin , Pou-Ieng Cheong , Chin-Fei Lee , Hsi-Wei Yen , Zhi-Yun Li , Ka Ho Lam , Bo Zhao

Jets and outflows are key components of low-mass star formation, regulating accretion and shaping the surrounding molecular clouds. These flows, traced by molecular species at (sub)millimeter wavelengths (e.g., CO, SiO, SO, H$_2$CO, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Somnath Dutta

The relation between the mass accretion rate onto the circumstellar disc and the rate of mass ejection by magnetically driven winds is investigated using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Using a spherical cloud core with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Yuko Matsushita , Masahiro N. Machida , Yuya Sakurai , Takashi Hosokawa

Powerful jets and outflows are launched from the protostellar disks around newborn stars. These outflows carry enough mass and momentum to transform the structure of their parent molecular cloud and to potentially control star formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Christoph Federrath , Martin Schrön , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

The role of outflows in the formation of stars and the protostellar disks that generate them is a central question in astrophysics. Outflows are associated with star formation across the entire stellar mass spectrum. In this review, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Ralph E. Pudritz , Tom P. Ray