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Tidal features from galaxy mergers, particularly stellar streams, offer valuable insights into galaxy assembly and dark matter halo properties. This paper aims to identify a large sample of nearby stellar streams suitable for detailed…

We simulate fragmentation and gravitational collapse of cold, magnetized molecular clouds. We explore the nonlinear development of an instability mediated by ambipolar diffusion, in which the collapse rate is intermediate to fast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Indebetouw , E. G. Zweibel

We utilize observations of sub-millimeter rotational transitions of CO from a Herschel Cycle 2 open time program ("COPS", PI: J. Green) to identify previously predicted turbulent dissipation by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shocks in molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-17 Rebecca L. Larson , Neal J. Evans , Joel D. Green , Yao-Lun Yang

We analyse extinction maps of nearby Giant Molecular Clouds to forge a link between driving processes of turbulence and modes of star formation. Our investigation focuses on cloud structure in the column density range above the self…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Rowles , D. Froebrich

We present a study of the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of interstellar dust derived from stellar extinction observations toward the Taurus molecular cloud (MC) and its relation with the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) emission at 21 cm…

Simulations of tidal streams show that close encounters with dark matter subhalos induce density gaps and distortions in on-sky path along the streams. Accordingly, observing disrupted streams in the Galactic halo would substantiate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Emily Sandford , Andreas H. W. Kuepper , Kathryn V. Johnston , Juerg Diemand

We study effect of magnetic field on massive dense core formation in colliding unequal molecular clouds by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations with sub-parsec resolution (0.015 pc) that can resolve the molecular cores. Initial clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto

We present results of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave propagation in a solar magnetic flux tube. Our study aims at understanding the properties of a range of MHD wave modes generated by different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 G. Vigeesh , V. Fedun , S. S. Hasan , R. Erdélyi

We present the results of a large suite of three-dimensional (3D) models of the collapse of magnetic molecular cloud cores using the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code Enzo2.2 in the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. P. Boss , S. A. Keiser

We calculate and analyze the longevity of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave modes that occur in the plane of a magnetic thin sheet. Initial turbulent conditions applied to a magnetically subcritical cloud are shown to lead to relatively rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-19 Shantanu Basu , Wolf B. Dapp

It is well known that the nonlinear evolution of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence generates current sheets. In the solar wind turbulence, current sheets are frequently observed and they are believed to be an important pathway for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Chen Shi , Marco Velli , Nikos Sioulas , Zijin Zhang

We extend previous studies of the physics of interstellar cloud collisions by beginning investigation of the role of magnetic fields through 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations. We study head-on collisions between equal mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Francesco Miniati , Dongsu Ryu , Andrea Ferrara , T. W. Jones

Stellar magnetism plays an important role in stellar evolution theory. Approximatively 10% of observed main sequence (MS) and pre-main-sequence (PMS) radiative stars exhibit surface magnetic fields above the detection limit, raising the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Jérémie Vidal , David Cébron , Nathanaël Schaeffer , Rainer Hollerbach

We explore the structure and statistics of multiphase, magnetized ISM turbulence in the local Milky Way by means of driven periodic box numerical MHD simulations. Using the higher order-accurate piecewise-parabolic method on a local stencil…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-19 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

The stellar core formation and high speed jets driven by the formed core are studied by using three-dimensional resistive MHD nested grid simulations. Starting with a Bonnor-Ebert isothermal cloud rotating in a uniform magnetic field, we…

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

We investigate collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) as potential generators of their internal turbulence. Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of self-gravitating, magnetized, turbulent, GMCs, we compare kinematic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Fumitaka Nakamura , Duncan Christie , Qi Li

Experiments on a thin layer of cohesive wet granular matter under vertical vibrations reveal kink separated domains that collide with the container at different phases. Due to the strong cohesion arising from the formation of liquid bridges…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-13 Lorenz Butzhammer , Simeon Völkel , Ingo Rehberg , Kai Huang

We investigate the interplay between the ionization radiation from massive stars and the turbulence inside the surrounding molecular gas thanks to 3D numerical simulations. We used the 3D hydrodynamical code HERACLES to model an initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Tremblin , E. Audit , V. Minier , W. Schmidt , N. Schneider

Prominences show a surprising amount of fine structure and it is widely believed that their threads, as seen in H$\alpha$ observations, provide indirect information concerning magnetic field topology. We investigate the spontaneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Niels Claes , Rony Keppens , Chun Xia

We have performed smoothed particle radiation magnetohydrodynamics (SPRMHD) simulations of the collapse of rotating, magnetised molecular cloud cores to form protostars. The calculations follow the formation and evolution of the first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew R. Bate , Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price