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In this study, we investigate the shapes of starless and protostellar cores using hydrodynamic, self-gravitating adaptive mesh refinement simulations of turbulent molecular clouds. We simulate observations of these cores in dust emission,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 S. S. R. Offner , M. R. Krumholz

We conducted isothermal MHD simulations with self-gravity to investigate the properties of dense cores in cluster-forming clumps. Two different setups were explored: a single rotating clump and colliding clumps. We focused on determining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-22 Shinichi. W. Kinoshita , Fumitaka Nakamura

We formulate the problem of the late accretion phase of the evolution of an isothermal magnetic disk surrounding a forming star. The evolution is described by the six-fluid MHD equations, accounting for the presence of neutrals, atomic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

We investigate the effect of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) on the formation of binary stars using a suite of three-dimensional smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the gravitational collapse of one solar mass,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-08 James Wurster , Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

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

Recent spectropolarimetric observations suggest that young low-mass stars such as classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) possess relatively strong (~kG) magnetic field. This supports a scenario in which the final accretion onto the stellar surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ryuichi Kurosawa , M. M. Romanova

Accreting neutron stars can power a wide range of astrophysical phenomena including short- and long-duration gamma-ray bursts, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, and X-ray binaries. Numerical simulations are a valuable tool for studying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Kyle Parfrey , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We investigate collapse of magnetic protostellar clouds of mass $10$ and $1 M_{\odot}$. The collapse is simulated numerically using the two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code `Enlil'. The simulations show that protostellar clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov , Alexander E. Dudorov , Natalya S. Kargaltseva , Andrey G. Zhilkin

We present a theoretical model for primordial star formation. First we describe the structure of the initial gas cores as virialized, quasi-hydrostatic objects in accord with recent high resolution numerical studies. The accretion rate can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan C. Tan , Christopher F. McKee

We study the star-disc interaction in the presence of the strong magnetic field ($B_\star=6.2kG$) of a slowly rotating star. This situation describes a post-merger of the spectral type B and has not been previously investigated. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 A. Moranchel-Basurto , D. Korčáková , R. O. Chametla

We report results from radiation hydrodynamical simulations of the collapse of molecular cloud cores to form protostars. The calculations follow the formation and evolution of the first hydrostatic core/disc, the collapse to form a stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew R. Bate

Magnetic fields are believed to play a crucial role in the process of star formation. We compare high-angular resolution observations of the submillimeter polarized emission of NGC 1333 IRAS 4A, tracing the magnetic field around a low-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose Goncalves , Daniele Galli , Josep M. Girart

This work investigates Bondi accretion to a rotating magnetized star in the "propeller" regime using axisymmetric resistive, magnetohydrodynamic simulations. In this regime accreting matter tends to be expelled from the equatorial region of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Romanova , O. D. Toropina , Yu. M. Toropin , R. V. E. Lovelace

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

We present the first-ever simulations of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stellar magnetospheric winds coupled with disc-driven jets where the resistive and viscous accretion disc is self-consistently described. These innovative MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 Z. Meliani , F. Casse , C. Sauty

We formulate the problem of the formation and subsequent evolution of fragments (or cores) in magnetically-supported, self-gravitating molecular clouds in two spatial dimensions. The six-fluid (neutrals, electrons, molecular and atomic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Matthew W. Kunz , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

One of the key problems in star formation research is to determine the role of magnetic fields. Starting from the atomic inter-cloud medium (ICM) which has density nH ~ 1 per cubic cm, gas must accumulate from a volume several hundred pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua-bai Li , C. Darren Dowell , Alyssa Goodman , Roger Hildebrand , Giles Novak

We present results from the first three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical calculations to follow the collapse of a molecular cloud core beyond the formation of the stellar core. We find the energy released by the formation of the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthew R. Bate

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

We describe a three-dimensional, Godunov-type numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) method designed for studying disk accretion to a rotating magnetized star in the general case where the star's rotation axis, its magnetic moment, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Koldoba , M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , R. V. E. Lovelace