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Using numerical simulations, we investigate the gravitational evolution of filamentary molecular cloud structures and their condensation into dense protostellar cores. One possible process is the so called 'edge effect', the pile-up of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-06 Elena Hoemann , Stefan Heigl , Andreas Burkert

Hub-filament systems are suggested to be the birth cradles of high-mass stars and clusters. We apply the FILFINDER algorithm to the integrated intensity maps of the 13CO (3-2) line to identify filaments in the G333 complex, and extract the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-16 J. W. Zhou , F. Wyrowski , S. Neupane , J. S. Urquhart , N. J. Evans , E. Vázquez-Semadeni , K. M. Menten , Y. Gong , T. Liu

Heavy particles suspended in a turbulent flow settle faster than in a still fluid. This effect stems from a preferential sampling of the regions where the fluid flows downward and is quantified here as a function of the level of turbulence,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jeremie Bec , Holger Homann , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Magnetic fields are dynamically important in the diffuse interstellar medium. Understanding how gravitationally bound, star-forming clouds form requires modeling of the fields in a self-consistent, supernova-driven, turbulent, magnetized,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen

Observational evidence from local star-forming regions mandates that star formation occurs shortly after, or even during, molecular cloud formation. Models of the formation of molecular clouds in large-scale converging flows have identified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Adam Frank , Fabian Heitsch

We study numerically the formation of molecular clouds in large-scale colliding flows including self-gravity. The models emphasize the competition between the effects of gravity on global and local scales in an isolated cloud. Global…

We investigate giant molecular cloud (GMCs) collisions and their ability to induce gravitational instability and thus star formation. This mechanism may be a major driver of star formation activity in galactic disks. We carry out a series…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Fumitaka Nakamura , Sven Van Loo , Duncan Christie , David Collins

The dynamical processes that control star formation in molecular clouds are not well understood, and in particular, it is unclear if rotation plays a major role in cloud evolution. We investigate the importance of rotation in cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-25 Guang-Xing Li , Friedrich Wyrowski , Karl Menten

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

Supercritical gas filaments in molecular clouds host the dense cores in which new stars form. The mechanisms governing their formation and subsequent gas accretion remain poorly understood. In this study, we conduct a statistical analysis…

We studied the hub filament system G323.46-0.08 based on archival molecular line data from the SEDIGISM 13CO survey and infrared data from the GLIMPSE, MIPS, and Hi-GAL surveys. G323.46-0.08 consists of three filaments, F-north, F-west, and…

The evolution of molecular clouds in galactic centres is thought to differ from that in galactic discs due to a significant influence of the external gravitational potential. We present a set of numerical simulations of molecular clouds…

Recent molecular line observations with ALMA and NOEMA in several Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG) have revealed the large-scale filamentary structure at the center of cool core clusters. These filaments extend over 20-100kpc, they are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Francoise Combes

Stars are thought to form predominantly within filamentary molecular clouds. Recent studies have suggested that active star formation, including the formation of stellar clusters and massive stars, occurs within so-called "hub" structures,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kohji Tomisaka , Tsuyoshi Inoue

We show how the mass function of dense cores (CMF) which results from the gravoturbulent fragmentation of a molecular cloud evolves in time under the effect of gas accretion. Accretion onto the cores leads to the formation of larger numbers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-23 Sami Dib

Cloud-cloud collisions are expected to trigger star formation by compressing gas into dense, gravitationally unstable regions. However, the role of magnetic fields in this process is unclear. We use SPH to model head-on collisions between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Theotokis Georgatos , Anthony P. Whitworth

Due to superradiant instabilities, clouds of ultralight bosons can spontaneously grow around rotating black holes, creating so-called "gravitational atoms". In this work, we study their dynamical effects on binary systems. We first focus on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Gianfranco Bertone

The most recent observational evidence seems to indicate that giant molecular clouds are predominantly gravitationally unbound objects. In this paper we show that this is a natural consequence of a scenario in which cloud-cloud collisions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 C. L. Dobbs , A. Burkert , J. E. Pringle

Gravity is the driving force of star formation. Although gravity is caused by the presence of matter, its role in complex regions is still unsettled. One effective way to study the pattern of gravity is to compute the accretion it exerts on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Zhen-Zhen He , Guang-Xing Li , Andreas Burkert

Recent observations suggest that intensive molecular cloud collision can trigger massive star/cluster formation. The most important physical process caused by the collision is a shock compression. In this paper, the influence of a shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-07 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Patrick Hennebelle , Yasuo Fukui , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka