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Neutron stars contain persistent, ordered magnetic fields that are the strongest known in the Universe. However, their magnetic fluxes are similar to those in magnetic A and B stars and white dwarfs, suggesting that flux conservation during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andreas Reisenegger

A model of magnetic field structure is presented to help test the prevalence of flux freezing in star-forming clouds of various shapes, orientations, and degrees of central concentration, and to estimate their magnetic field strength. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Philip C. Myers , Shantanu Basu , Sayantan Auddy

We present our current understanding of the formation and early evolution of protostars, protoplanetary disks, and the driving of outflows as dictated by the interplay of magnetic fields and partially ionized gas in molecular cloud cores.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Anaëlle Maury , Benoît Commerçon , Felipe O. Alves , Erin G. Cox , Nami Sakai , Tom Ray , Bo Zhao , Masahiro N. Machida

Neutron stars host the strongest magnetic fields that we know of in the Universe. Their magnetic fields are the main means of generating their radiation, either magnetospheric or through the crust. Moreover, the evolution of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-24 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Davide De Grandis , Andrei Igoshev

The role of MHD turbulence in astrophysical environments is still highly debated. An important question that permeates this debate is the transport of magnetic flux. This is particularly important, for instance, in the context of star…

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

We report the strength of seed magnetic flux of accretion disk surrounding the PopIII stars. The magnetic field in accretion disk might play an important role in the transport of angular momentum because of the turbulence induced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideki Maki , Hajime Susa

Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the smallest size scales. In this review we discuss the effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 Mark R. Krumholz , Christoph Federrath

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 formation of protostellar discs is severely hampered by magnetic braking, as long as magnetic fields remain frozen in the gas. The latter condition depends on the levels of ionisation that characterise the innermost regions of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli , Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon , Marc Joos

To investigate the role of magnetic fields in the evolution of the interstellar medium, formation and evolution of molecular clouds, and ultimately the formation of stars, their three-dimensional (3D) magnetic fields must be probed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-27 Mehrnoosh Tahani

In this review paper, we aim at providing a global outlook on the progresses made in the recent years to characterize the role of magnetic fields during the embedded phases of the star formation process. Thanks to the development of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 Anaëlle Maury , Patrick Hennebelle , Josep Miquel Girart

Among many physical processes involved in star formation, radiation transfer is one of the key processes since it dominantly controls the thermodynamics. Because metallicities control opacities, they are one of the important environmental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Kengo Tomida

The formation of protostars and their disks has been understood as the result of the gravitational collapse phase of an accumulation of dense gas that determines the mass reservoir of the star-disk system. Against this background, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 M. Kuffmeier

We formulate the problem of magnetic field dissipation during the accretion phase of low-mass star formation, and we carry out the first step of an iterative solution procedure by assuming that the gas is in free-fall along radial field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. H. Shu , D. Galli , S. Lizano , M. Cai

Magnetic fields are present in a wide variety of stars throughout the HR diagram and play a role at basically all evolutionary stages, from very-low-mass dwarfs to very massive stars, and from young star-forming molecular clouds and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 JF Donati , JD Landstreet

We examine the impact of the magnetic field on Population III star formation by varying the magnetic field strength. We perform simulations with magnetic field strengths ranging from $10^{-20}$ G to $10^{-4}$ G, in addition to a model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Masahiro N. Machida , Shingo Hirano , Shantanu Basu

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

Large-scale dipolar surface magnetic fields have been detected in a fraction of OB stars, however only few stellar evolution models of massive stars have considered the impact of these fossil fields. We are performing 1D hydrodynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Z. Keszthelyi , G. A. Wade , V. Petit

Improving our understanding of the initial conditions and earliest stages of star formation is crucial to gain insight into the origin of stellar masses, multiple systems, and protoplanetary disks. We review the properties of low-mass dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-29 Philippe André , Shantanu Basu , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka