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Star formation in galaxies is a complex phenomenon occurring on a very wide range of scales, and molecular clouds are at the heart of this process. The formation of these structures and the subsequent collapse of the gas within them to form…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Noé Brucy , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Tine Colman , Jérémy Fensch , Ralf S. Klessen

The last decade has witnessed significant advances in our observational understanding of the earliest stages of low-mass star formation. The advent of sensitive receivers on large radio telescopes such as the JCMT and IRAM 30m MRT has led…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Andre , Derek Ward-Thompson , Mary Barsony

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

Recent numerical simulations have shown that the unstable disk within the central regime of the primordial gas cloud fragments to form multiple protostars on several scales. Their evolution depends on the mass accretion phenomenon,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Sukalpa Kundu , Jayanta Dutta

The main accretion phase of star formation is investigated in clouds with different metallicities in the range of 0 \le Z \le Z_\odot, resolving the protostellar radius. Starting from a near-equilibrium prestellar cloud, we calculate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Masahiro N. Machida , Teppei Nakamura

Abridged abstract: For stars to form, material must fall inwards from core scales through the envelope towards the central protostar. The velocity profile around protostars is poorly constrained. 6 Class 0 protostars and one Class I…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. C. Mottram , E. F. van Dishoeck , M. Schmalzl , L. E. Kristensen , R. Visser , M. R. Hogerheijde , S. Bruderer

Early stages of stellar birth comprise of a two-step process involving the formation of two hydrostatic cores. The second step of gravitational collapse sets the radiative efficiency and accretion rate of the young protostar. These two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Asmita Bhandare , Adnan Ali Ahmad , Benoît Commerçon

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

In this work, the gas infall and the formation of outflows around low and high mass protostars are investigated. A radial self-similar approach to model the transit of the molecular gas around the central object is employed. We include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Combet , T. Lery , G. C. Murphy

We investigate the formation and early evolution of star clusters assuming that they form from a turbulent starless clump of given mass bounded inside a parent self-gravitating molecular cloud characterized by a particular mass surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Juan P. Farias , Jonathan C. Tan , Sourav Chatterjee

MHD models and the observation of accretion streamers confirmed that protostars can undergo late accretion events after the initial collapse phase. To provide better constraints, we study the evolution of stellar masses in MHD simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-10 M. Kuffmeier , S. S. Jensen , T. Haugbølle

We investigate the formation of metal-free, Population III (Pop III), stars within a minihalo at z ~ 20 with a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation, starting from cosmological initial conditions. Employing a hierarchical,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Stacy , T. H. Greif , V. Bromm

The evolution of radiation emitted during the dynamical collapse of metal-free protostellar clouds is investigated within a spherically symmetric hydrodynamical scheme that includes the transfer of radiation and the chemistry of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Emanuele Ripamonti , Francesco Haardt , Andrea Ferrara , Monica Colpi

Stars form from the gravitational collapse of dense molecular cloud cores. In the protostellar phase, mass accretes from the core onto a protostar, likely through an accretion disk, and it is during this phase that the initial masses of…

We investigate the impact of different initial conditions for the initial density profile and the initial turbulence on the formation process of protostellar clusters. We study the collapse of dense molecula r cloud cores with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Federrath , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

We investigate the formation of the first stars at the end of the cosmic dark ages with a suite of three-dimensional, moving mesh simulations that directly resolve the collapse of the gas beyond the formation of the first protostar at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Thomas H. Greif , Volker Bromm , Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Rowan J. Smith , Ralf S. Klessen , Naoki Yoshida , Volker Springel

Mass accretion onto (proto-)stars at high accretion rates > 10^-4 M_sun/yr is expected in massive star formation. We study the evolution of massive protostars at such high rates by numerically solving the stellar structure equations. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Takashi Hosokawa , Harold W. Yorke , Kazuyuki Omukai

Developing a theory of low-mass star formation ($\sim 0.1$ to 3~M$_{\odot}$) remains one of the most elusive and important goals of theoretical astrophysics. The star-formation process is the outcome of the complex dynamics of interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard I. Klein , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Paolo Padoan , Kohji Tomisaka

The primordial clouds in the mini-halos hatch the first generation stars of the universe, which play a crucial role in cosmic evolution. In this paper, we investigate how the turbulence impacts the structure of primordial star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-14 Ching-Yao Tang , Ke-Jung Chen

Using a quantitative model for bipolar outflows driven by hydromagnetic protostellar winds, we calculate the efficiency of star formation assuming that available gas is either converted into stars or ejected in outflows. We estimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christopher D. Matzner , Christopher F. McKee
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