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We perform a sequence of 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the outflow-core interaction for a massive protostar forming via collapse of an initial cloud core of $60~{M_\odot}$. This allows us to characterize the properties of disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Jan E. Staff , Kei E. I. Tanaka , Jonathan C. Tan

We investigate the roles of magnetic fields and ambipolar diffusion during prestellar core formation in turbulent giant molecular clouds (GMCs), using three-dimensional numerical simulations. Our simulations focus on the shocked layer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Che-Yu Chen , Eve C. Ostriker

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

We explore the pulsationally driven orbital mass ejection mechanism for Be star disc formation using isothermal, 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and hydrodynamic simulations. Non-radial pulsations are added to a star rotating at 95\% of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 Sean M. Ressler

(Abridged) Context. Most massive stars are located in multiple stellar systems. Magnetic fields are believed to be essential in the accretion and ejection processes around single massive protostars. Aims. Our aim is to unveil the influence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 R. Mignon-Risse , M. González , B. Commerçon

Massive disk fragmentation has been suggested to be one of the mechanisms leading to the formation of giant planets. While it has been heavily studied in quiescent hydrodynamic disks, the effect of MHD turbulence arising from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sebastien Fromang

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

Recent observations demonstrate that misalignments and other out-of-plane structures are common in protoplanetary discs. Many of these have been linked to a central host binary with an orbit that is inclined with respect to the disc. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Alison K. Young , Struan Stevenson , C. J. Nixon , Ken Rice

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

Context: Ideal MHD simulations have revealed catastrophic magnetic braking (MB) in the protostellar phase, which prevents the formation of a centrifugal disk around a nascent protostar. Aims: We determine if non-ideal MHD, including the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-19 Wolf B. Dapp , Shantanu Basu , Matthew W. Kunz

We perform a long-term simulation of star and disk formation using three-dimensional non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics. The simulation starts from a prestellar cloud and proceeds through the long-term evolution of the circumstellar disk until…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Masahiro N. Machida , Shantanu Basu

The formation of protostellar disks out of molecular cloud cores is still not fully understood. Under ideal MHD conditions, the removal of angular momentum from the disk progenitor by the typically embedded magnetic field may prevent the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Santos-Lima , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

We analyse simulations of turbulent, magnetised molecular cloud cores focussing on the formation of Class 0 stage protostellar discs and the physical conditions in their surroundings. We show that for a wide range of initial conditions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Seifried , R. Banerjee , R. E. Pudritz , R. S. Klessen

Distinguishing diagnostic observational signatures produced by MHD models is essential in understanding the physics for the formation of protostellar disks in the ALMA era. Developing suitable tools along with time evolution will facilitate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Miikka S. Väisälä , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Sheng-Yuan Liu , Ka Ho Lam , Zhi-Yun Li

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in an accretion disc is an important problem because it determines the launching of winds and the feasibility of the magnetorotational instability to generate turbulence or channel…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Philip K. C. Leung , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Magnetic fields are known to play a crucial role in the star formation process, particularly in the formation of jets and outflows from protostellar discs. The magnetic field structure in star forming regions is not always uniform and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Isabella A. Gerrard , Christoph Federrath , Rajika Kuruwita

We carry out three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to study planet-disc interactions for inclined high mass planets, focusing on the disc's secular evolution induced by the planet. We find that, when the planet is massive enough and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Zhaohuan Zhu

We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the structure of the boundary layer between an accretion disc and a non-rotating, unmagnetized star. Under the assumption that cooling is efficient, we obtain a narrow but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip J. Armitage

Recent observations of several protoplanetary discs have found evidence of departures from flat, circular motion in the inner regions of the disc. One possible explanation for these observations is a disc warp, which could be induced by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rebecca Nealon , Giovanni Dipierro , Richard Alexander , Rebecca Martin , Chris Nixon

Context: We studied numerically the formation of giant planet (GP) and brown dwarf (BD) embryos in gravitationally unstable protostellar disks and compared our findings with directly-imaged, wide-orbit (>= 50 AU) companions known to-date.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Eduard I. Vorobyov