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The role of magnetic fields in galaxy evolution is still an unsolved question in astrophysics. We have previously shown that magnetic fields play a crucial role in major mergers between disc galaxies; in hydrodynamic simulations of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-28 Joseph Whittingham , Martin Sparre , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

The angular momentum of molecular cloud cores plays an essential role in the star formation process. However, the time evolution of the angular momentum of molecular cloud cores is still unclear. In this paper, we perform three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Yoshiaki Misugi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Doris Arzoumanian

Outflows and jets are intimately related to the formation of stars, and play an important role in redistributing mass, energy and angular momentum within the dense core and parent cloud. The interplay between magnetic field and rotation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrea Ciardi , Patrick Hennebelle

From molecular clouds to protoplanetary disks, non-ideal magnetic effects are important in many astrophysical environments. Indeed, in star and disk formation processes, it has become clear that these effects are critical to the evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 T. Grassi , M. Padovani , J. P. Ramsey , D. Galli , N. Vaytet , B. Ercolano , T. Haugboelle

Context. The influence of magnetic fields on stellar core collapse and explosion is not well explored. It depends on the possibility to amplify the pre-collapse fields. Without rotation this can happen by compression, convection, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Obergaulinger , Hans-Thomas Janka

We study the effects of magnetic fields and rotation on the core collapse of a star of an initial mass of M = 20 solar masses using axisymmetric simulations coupling special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, an approximately relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 M. Obergaulinger , O. Just , M. Á. Aloy

We investigate the formation and evolution of circumstellar disks in turbulent cloud cores until several 104 years after protostar formation using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations. The formation and evolution process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-27 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida

It is established that the formation of rotationally supported disks during the main accretion phase of star formation is suppressed by a moderately strong magnetic field in the ideal MHD limit. Non-ideal MHD effects are expected to weaken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Richard R. Mellon , Zhi-Yun Li

We discuss the effects of the magnetic field observed in molecular clouds on the process of star formation, concentrating on the phase of gravitational collapse of low-mass dense cores, cradles of sunlike stars. We summarize recent analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susana Lizano , Daniele Galli

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

Using resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation, we investigate circumstellar disk formation in a strongly magnetized cloud. As the initial state, an isolated cloud core embedded in a low-density interstellar medium with a uniform magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We use magnetohydrodynamical simulations of converging flows to investigate the process of molecular cloud formation and evolution out of the magnetised ISM. Here, we investigate whether the observed subcritical HI clouds can become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-02 Bastian Körtgen , Robi Banerjee

We demonstrate that the formation of collapsing cores in subcritical clouds is accelerated by nonlinear flows, by performing three-dimensional non-ideal MHD simulations. An initial random supersonic (and trans-Alfvenic) turbulent-like flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takahiro Kudoh , Shantanu Basu

The phenomenon of magnetic braking is one of the significant physical effects of the magnetic field in rotating molecular clouds. The physical characteristics of the core can affect on the core rotation rate. and one of the important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Abbas Ebrahimi , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar , Azar Khosravi

Magnetic fields are usually considered dynamically important in star formation when the dimensionless mass-to-flux ratio is close to, or less than, unity (lambda<~1). We show that, in disk formation, the requirement is far less stringent.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard R. Mellon , Zhi-Yun Li

Observations of molecular structures on scales of $\sim 0.1-50$ pc show that the specific angular momentum ($j$) scales with radius ($R$) as $j\sim R^{3/2}$. We study the effects of turbulence, gravity, and the magnetic field in shaping…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Griselda Arroyo-Chavez , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , James Wurster

It is well known that non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic effects are important in the dynamics of molecular clouds: both ambipolar diffusion and possibly the Hall effect have been identified as significant. We present the results of a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 T. P. Downes , S. O'Sullivan

The transport of angular momentum is capital during the formation of low-mass stars; too little removal and rotation ensures stellar densities are never reached, too much and the absence of rotation means no protoplanetary disks can form.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Neil Vaytet , Benoît Commerçon , Jacques Masson , Matthias González , Gilles Chabrier

We investigate the formation and early evolution of a protostellar disc from a magnetized pre-stellar core using non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations including ambipolar diffusion and Ohmic dissipation. The dynamical contraction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Wenrui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz

Magnetic fields are often invoked as playing a primary role in star formation and in the formation of high-mass stars. We investigate the effect of magnetic fields on the formation of high-mass cores using the 3-dimensional smoothed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-04 Katerina Sophia Klos , Ian A. Bonnell , Rowan J. Smith