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(abridged) The nature of early Class 0/I protostellar discs is not clearly understood. Early protostellar discs are needed to drive molecular outflows and jets observed in star forming regions, but there has been some debate to how they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Dennis F. Duffin , Ralph E. Pudritz , Daniel Seifried , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

Aims: We investigate the evolution of protoplanetary discs (PPDs hereafter) with magnetically driven disc winds and viscous heating. Methods: We consider an initially massive disc with ~0.1 Msun to track the evolution from the early stage…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Takeru K. Suzuki , Masahiro Ogihara , Alessandro Morbidelli , Aurélien Crida , Tristan Guillot

We use time-dependent, one-dimensional disc models to investigate the evolution of protostellar discs that form through the collapse of molecular cloud cores and in which the primary transport mechanism is self-gravity. We assume that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. K. M. Rice , J. H. Mayo , P. J. Armitage

Protostellar disks around young protostars exhibit diverse properties, with their radii ranging from less than ten to several hundred au. To investigate the mechanisms shaping this disk radius distribution, we compiled a sample of 27 Class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Hsi-Wei Yen , Yueh-Ning Lee

We investigate the formation and evolution of a first core, protostar, and circumstellar disc with a three-dimensional non-ideal (including both Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion) radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulation. We found that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Kazunari Iwasaki , Satoshi Okuzumi , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Planets form in protoplanetary discs. Their masses, distribution, and orbits sensitively depend on the structure of the protoplanetary discs. However, what sets the initial structure of the discs in terms of mass, radius and accretion rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-11 Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon , Yueh-Ning Lee , Sébastien Charnoz

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

Context: Protoplanetary discs are known to form around nascent stars from their parent molecular cloud as a result of angular momentum conservation. As they progressively evolve and dissipate, they also form planets. While a lot of modeling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 J. Mauxion , G. Lesur , S. Maret

Although protostars and disks are often studied separately owing to numerical and observational challenges, breakthroughs in recent years have highlighted the need to study both objects in concert. The role of magnetic fields in this regard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Ugo Lebreuilly , Benoît Commerçon

In the present-day universe, magnetic fields play such essential roles in star formation as angular momentum transport and outflow driving, which control circumstellar disc formation/fragmentation and also the star formation efficiency.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

Theoretical studies of collapsing clouds have found that even a relatively weak magnetic field (B) may prevent the formation of disks and their fragmentation. However, most previous studies have been limited to cases where B and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Marc Joos , Patrick Hennebelle , Andrea Ciardi

The early evolution of protostellar, star-forming discs, including their density structure, turbulence, magnetic dynamics, and accretion variability, remains poorly understood. We present high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Trey Qingyun Yang , Christoph Federrath

Protoplanetary disks are quasi-steady structures whose evolution and dispersal determine the environment for planet formation. I review the theory of protoplanetary disk evolution and its connection to observations. Substantial progress has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-25 Philip J. Armitage

Protoplanetary disks are likely to be threaded by a weak net flux of vertical magnetic field that is a remnant of the much larger fluxes present in molecular cloud cores. If this flux is approximately conserved its dynamical importance will…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon , Rebecca G. Martin

We review theoretical models of the early stages of star formation, in which gravitational collapse is strongly regulated by magnetic fields and the associated process of ambipolar diffusion. We discuss results of numerical simulations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Glenn E. Ciolek , Shantanu Basu

Magnetic fields play an important role in star formation by regulating the removal of angular momentum from collapsing molecular cloud cores. Hall diffusion is known to be important to the magnetic field behaviour at many of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Catherine R. Braiding , Mark Wardle

The collapse of the magnetic rotating protostellar cloud with mass of $10\,M_{\odot}$ is numerically studied. The initial ratios of the thermal, magnetic, and rotational energies of the cloud to the modulus of its gravitational energy are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Natalya S. Kargaltseva , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov , Alexander E. Dudorov , Andrey G. Zhilkin

While it is generally accepted that the magnetic field and its non-ideal effects play important roles during the stellar formation, simple models of pure hydrodynamics and angular momentum conservation are still widely employed in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yueh-Ning Lee , Sébastien Charnoz , Patrick Hennebelle

We present simulations of collapsing 100 M_\sun mass cores in the context of massive star formation. The effect of variable initial rotational and magnetic energies on the formation of massive stars is studied in detail. We focus on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Seifried , R. Banerjee , R. S. Klessen , D. Duffin , R. E. Pudritz

We report results from twelve simulations of the collapse of a molecular cloud core to form one or more protostars, comprising three field strengths (mass-to-flux ratios, {\mu}, of 5, 10, and 20) and four field geometries (with values of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-28 Benjamin T. Lewis , Matthew R. Bate