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We develop a theory for filamentary molecular clouds including the effects of ordered magnetic fields, and external pressure. We first derive a form of the virial equation appropriate for filamentary clouds. By comparing with observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jason D. Fiege , Ralph E. Pudritz

Recent numerical works, including ours, lend credence to the thesis that ambient environment, i.e., external pressure, affects star-forming ability of clouds & filaments. In continuation with our series of papers on the subject we explore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-17 S. V. Anathpindika , J. Di Francesco

The formation of filaments in molecular clouds is an important process in star formation. Hub-filament systems (HFSs) are a transition stage connecting parsec-scale filaments and proto-clusters. Understanding the origin of HFSs is crucial…

The continuous flow of gas and dark matter across scales in the cosmic web can generate correlated dynamical properties of haloes and filaments (and the magnetic fields they contain). With this work, we study the halo spin properties and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Serena Banfi , Franco Vazza , Claudio Gheller

Star formation takes place in filamentary molecular clouds which arise by physical processes that take place in the cold, neutral medium (CNM). We address the necessary conditions for this diffuse ($n \approx 30$ cm$^{-3}$), cold (T…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-23 Rachel Pillsworth , Ralph E. Pudritz

The evolution of the magnetic field and angular momentum in the collapsing cloud core is studied using three-dimensional resistive MHD nested grid simulations. Starting with a Bonnor-Ebert isothermal cloud rotating in a uniform magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Star formation is primarily controlled by the interplay between gravity, turbulence, and magnetic fields. However, the turbulence and magnetic fields in molecular clouds near the Galactic Center may differ substantially from spiral-arm…

As well known, magnetic fields in space are distributed very inhomogeneously. Some-times field distributions have forms of filaments with high magnetic field values. As many ob-servations show, such a filamentation takes place in convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-03 Evgeny A. Kuznetsov , Evgeny A. Mikhailov

One of the key problems in star formation research is to determine the role of magnetic fields. Starting from the atomic inter-cloud medium (ICM) which has density nH ~ 1 per cubic cm, gas must accumulate from a volume several hundred pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua-bai Li , C. Darren Dowell , Alyssa Goodman , Roger Hildebrand , Giles Novak

Most molecular clouds are filamentary or elongated. Among those forming low-mass stars, their long axes tend to be either parallel or perpendicular to the large-scale (10-100 pc) magnetic field (B-field) in the surrounding inter cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-27 Hua-bai Li , Ka Ho Yuen , Frank Otto , Po Kin Leung , T. K. Sridharan , Qizhou Zhang , Hauyu Liu , Ya-Wen Tang , Keping Qiu

Purpose of this work is study evolution of magnetized rotating filamentary molecular cloud's. We will consider cylindrical symmetric filamentary molecular clouds at the early stage of evolution. For the first time we consider rotation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 P. Aghili , K. Kokabi

When cool clouds are ram-pressure accelerated by a hot supersonic galactic wind, some of the clouds may be shredded by hydrodynamical instabilities and incorporated into the hot flow. Recent one-dimensional steady-state calculations show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-25 Dustin D. Nguyen , Todd A. Thompson , Evan E. Schneider , Ashley P. Tarrant

Intergalactic filaments form the foundation of the cosmic web that connect galaxies together, and provide an important reservoir of gas for galaxy growth and accretion. Here we present very high resolution two-dimensional simulations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 William J Gray , Evan Scannapieco

Observations of molecular clouds reveal a complex structure, with gas and dust often arranged in filamentary rather than spherical geometries. The associations of pre- and proto- stellar cores with the filaments suggest a direct link with…

The nature and origin of turbulence and magnetic fields in the intergalactic space are important problems that are yet to be understood. We propose a scenario in which turbulent flow motions are induced via the cascade of the vorticity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Jungyeon Cho , Santabrata Das

The configuration and evolution of the magnetic field in star-forming cores are investigated in order to directly compare simulations and observations. We prepare four different initial clouds having different magnetic field strengths and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Akimasa Kataoka , Masahiro N. Machida , Kohji Tomisaka

We consider the dynamical evolution of an interstellar cloud that is initially in thermal equilibrium in the warm phase and is then subjected to a sudden increase in the pressure of its surroundings. We find that if the initial plasma beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Lim , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist

Prestellar cores are generally spheroidal, some of which appear oblate while others appear prolate. Very few of them appear circular in projection. Little, however, is understood about the processes or the physical conditions under which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 S. Anathpindika , J. Di Francesco

Ocean submesoscales, flows with characteristic size around 10 m - 10 km, are transitional between the larger, rotationally-constrained mesoscale and three-dimensional turbulence. In this paper we present simulations of a submesoscale ocean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Erin Atkinson , James McWilliams , Nicolas Grisouard

We present a set of numerical simulations addressing the effects of magnetic field strength and orientation on the flow-driven formation of molecular clouds. Fields perpendicular to the flows sweeping up the cloud can efficiently prevent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 F. Heitsch , J. M. Stone , L. W. Hartmann
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