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We present non-radiative, cosmological zoom-simulations of galaxy cluster formation with magnetic fields and (anisotropic) thermal conduction of one very massive galaxy cluster with a mass at redshift zero that corresponds to…

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Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes -- namely Ohmic resistivity, ambipolar diffusion and the Hall effect -- modify the early stages of the star formation process and the surrounding environment. Collectively, they have been shown…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 James Wurster , Matthew R. Bate , Ian A. Bonnell

We use simple analytic reasoning to identify physical processes that drive the evolution of the cosmic star formation density in cold dark matter universes. Based on our analysis, we formulate a model to characterise the redshift dependence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Lars Hernquist , Volker Springel

Mass accretion onto (proto-)stars at high accretion rates > 10^-4 M_sun/yr is expected in massive star formation. We study the evolution of massive protostars at such high rates by numerically solving the stellar structure equations. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Takashi Hosokawa , Harold W. Yorke , Kazuyuki Omukai

We studied roles of a turbulent resistivity in the core-collapse of a strongly magnetized massive star, carrying out 2D-resistive-MHD simulations. The three cases with different initial strengths of magnetic field and rotation are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada , Kei Kotake , Hideyuki Suzuki

We investigate the formation of the satellite galaxy population of a Milky Way-mass halo in a very highly resolved magneto-hydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulation (baryonic mass resolution $m_b =$ 800 $\rm M_{\odot}$). We show that the…

(Abridged) In this paper we present a compilation of results from our most advanced neutron star merger simulations, including a description of the employed numerical procedures and a more complete overview over a large number of computed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Ruffert , H. -Th. Janka

Long-term ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity are performed for a massive neutron star formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. Neutrino radiation transport effects are taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

This work presents a new physical model of the star formation rate (SFR), verified with an unprecedented set of large numerical simulations of driven, supersonic, self-gravitating, magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, where collapsing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-14 Paolo Padoan , AAke Nordlund

Discretized numerical simulations are a powerful tool for investigation of nonlinear MHD turbulence in accretion disks. However, confidence in their quantitative predictions requires a demonstration that further refinement of the spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 John F. Hawley , Xiaoyue Guan , Julian H. Krolik

It has been recently argued through numerical work that rotating stars with a high degree of differential rotation are dynamically unstable against bar-mode deformation, even for values of the ratio of rotational kinetic energy to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Vicent Quilis , José A. Font

Effective star formation rates in tabular form are computed which yield a prescription for the star formation activity in model galaxies as a function of ambient density, metallicity, and stellar feedback. The effects of supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marco Spaans , Marcella Carollo

While QCD appears not to be accurately solvable in the regime of interest for neutron star physics, microscopic calculations are feasible at both low and very high densities. In this work, we propose using the most realistic calculations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-22 Aleksi Kurkela , Paul Romatschke , Aleksi Vuorinen , Bin Wu

A model for massive stars is constructed by piecing together evolutionary algorithms for the protostellar structure, the environment, the inflow and the radiation feedback. We investigate specified accretion histories of constant,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael D. Smith

We develop a new realistic prescription for modeling the stellar feedback, which minimizes any ad hoc assumptions about sub-grid physics. We start with developing high resolution models of the ISM and formulate the conditions required for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin

The processes regulating star formation in galaxies are thought to act across a hierarchy of spatial scales. To connect extragalactic star formation relations from global and kpc-scale measurements to recent cloud-scale resolution studies,…

We formulate the problem of the formation of magnetically supercritical cores in magnetically subcritical parent molecular clouds, and the subsequent collapse of the cores to high densities, past the detachment of ions from magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

We present radiation hydrodynamics simulations of the collapse of massive pre-stellar cores. We treat frequency dependent radiative feedback from stellar evolution and accretion luminosity at a numerical resolution down to 1.27 AU. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-05 Rolf Kuiper , Hubert Klahr , Henrik Beuther , Thomas Henning

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

In this paper, we provide a more accurate description of the evolution of the magnetic flux redistribution during prestellar core collapse by including resistive terms in the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We focus more particularly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jacques Masson , Gilles Chabrier , Patrick Hennebelle , Neil Vaytet , Benoit Commerçon