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The effect of misalignment between the magnetic field $\magB$ and the angular momentum $\Jang$ of molecular cloud cores on the angular momentum evolution during the gravitational collapse is investigated by ideal and non-ideal MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Y. Tsukamoto , S. Okuzumi , K. Iwasaki , M. N. Machida , S. Inutsuka

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

We present an implementation of the Hall term in the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations into the adaptive-mesh-refinement code RAMSES to study its impact on star formation. Recent works show that the Hall effect heavily influences the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Pierre Marchand , Benoît Commerçon , Gilles Chabrier

Magnetic fields have been shown both observationally and through theoretical work to be an important factor in the formation of protostars and their accretion disks. Accurate modelling of the evolution of the magnetic field in…

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 2011-10-12 Catherine Braiding

The formation process of circumstellar disks is still controversial because of the interplay of complex physical processes that occurs during the gravitational collapse of prestellar cores. In this study, we investigate the effect of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Y. Tsukamoto , K. Iwasaki , S. Okuzumi , M. N. Machida , S. Inutsuka

We studied the collapse of rotating molecular cloud cores with inclined magnetic fields, based on three-dimensional numerical simulations.The numerical simulations start from a rotating Bonnor-Ebert isothermal cloud in a uniform magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa , Kohji Tomisaka

Stars form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. A dynamically important magnetic field presents a significant obstacle to the formation of protostellar disks. Recent studies have shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Hsien Shang

The collapse of slowly rotating molecular cloud cores threaded by magnetic fields is investigated by high-resolution numerical simulation. Outflow formation in the collapsing cloud cores is also followed. In the models examined, the cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kohji Tomisaka

The magnetic field plays a central role in the formation and evolution of circumstellar disks. The magnetic field connects the rapidly rotating central region with the outer envelope and extracts angular momentum from the central region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-24 Yusuke Tsukamoto

The Hall effect is recently shown to be efficient in magnetized dense molecular cores, and could lead to a bimodal formation of rotationally supported discs (RSDs) in the first core phase. However, how such Hall dominated systems evolve in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 Bo Zhao , Paola Caselli , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Hsien Shang , Ka Ho Lam

The angular momentum of molecular cloud cores plays a key role in the star formation process. However, the evolution of the angular momentum of molecular cloud cores formed in magnetized molecular filaments is still unclear. In this paper,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Yoshiaki Misugi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Doris Arzoumanian , Yusuke Tsukamoto

We demonstrate the formation of gravitationally unstable discs in magnetized molecular cloud cores with initial mass-to-flux ratios of 5 times the critical value, effectively solving the magnetic braking catastrophe. We model the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 James Wurster , Matthew R. Bate , Daniel J. Price

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

We investigate the formation of circumstellar disks and outflows subsequent to the collapse of molecular cloud cores with the magnetic field and turbulence. Numerical simulations are performed by using an adaptive mesh refinement to follow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Using numerical hydrodynamics simulations we studied the gravitational collapse of pre-stellar cores of sub-solar mass embedded into a low-density external environment. Four models with different magnitude and direction of rotation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Eduard I. Vorobyov , D. N. C. Lin , Manuel Guedel

The formation of circumstellar disks is investigated using three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations, in which the initial prestellar cloud has a misaligned rotation axis with respect to the magnetic field. We examine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Shingo Hirano , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Shantanu Basu , Masahiro N. Machida

We numerically model the collapse of magnetic rotating protostellar clouds with mass of 10 $M_{sun}$. The simulations are carried out with the help of 2D MHD code Enlil. The structure of the cloud at the isothermal stage of the collapse is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 N. S. Kargaltseva , S. A. Khaibrakhmanov , A. E. Dudorov , S. N. Zamozdra , A. G. Zhilkin

We investigate whether or not the low ionisation fractions in molecular cloud cores can solve the `magnetic braking catastrophe', where magnetic fields prevent the formation of circumstellar discs around young stars. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 James Wurster , Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

The transport of angular momentum by magnetic fields is a crucial physical process in formation and evolution of stars and disks. Because the ionization degree in star forming clouds is extremely low, non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kengo Tomida , Satoshi Okuzumi , Masahiro N. Machida
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