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The currently most viable methods to estimate magnetic field strengths in molecular cloud cores are Zeeman measurements and the Chandrasekhar-Fermi (CF) method. The CF-method estimates magnetic field strengths from polarimetry and relies on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Heitsch , P. S. Li

We report the results of radiation-magneto-hydrodynamics calculations in the context of high mass star formation, using for the first time a self-consistent model for photon emission (i.e. via thermal emission and in radiative shocks) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Benoit Commercon , Patrick Hennebelle , Thomas Henning

Magnetic fields play a role in almost all stages of stellar evolution. Most low-mass stars, including the Sun, show surface fields that are generated by dynamo processes in their convective envelopes. Intermediate-mass stars do not have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 D. Stello , M. Cantiello , J. Fuller , D. Huber , R. A. Garcia , T. R. Bedding , L. Bildsten , V. Silva Aguirre

In a magnetically-dominated model of star formation, we expect to see alignments between the magnetic field orientation of star-forming dense cores and the cloud-scale magnetic field. Pandhi et al. (2023) showed instead, however, that the…

The dynamical state of star-forming molecular clouds cannot be understood without determining the structure and strength of their magnetic fields. Measurements of polarized far-infrared radiation from thermally aligned dust grains are used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Heitsch , E. G. Zweibel , M. -M. Mac Low , P. S. Li , M. L. Norman

Angular dispersion functions are typically used to estimate the fluctuations in polarization angle around the mean magnetic field orientation in dense regions, such as molecular clouds. The technique provides accurate turbulent to regular…

We present high-angular-resolution observations of the massive star forming core DR21(OH) at 880 mum using the Submillimeter Array (SMA). The dense core exhibits an overall velocity gradient in a Keplerian-like pattern, which breaks at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 J. M. Girart , P. Frau , Q. Zhang , P. M. Koch , K. Qiu , Y. -W. Tang , S. -P. Lai , P. T. P. Ho

We study effect of magnetic field on massive dense core formation in colliding unequal molecular clouds by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations with sub-parsec resolution (0.015 pc) that can resolve the molecular cores. Initial clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto

We present numerical experiments aimed to study the correlation between the magnetic field strength, $B$, and the density, $n$, in the cold atomic interstellar medium (CNM). We analyze 24 magneto-hydrodynamic models with different initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Adriana Gazol , Marco Villagran

Context. The role of magnetic fields during the formation of high-mass stars is not yet fully understood, and the processes related to the early fragmentation and collapse are largely unexplored today. The high-mass star forming region…

Optical and infrared continuum polarization from the interstellar medium is known to generally be due to irregular dust grains aligned with the magnetic field. This provides an important tool to probe the geometry and strength of those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Ilija Medan , B-G Andersson

Polarimetry is extensively used as a tool to trace the interstellar magnetic field projected on the plane of sky. Moreover, it is also possible to estimate the magnetic field intensity from polarimetric maps based on the Chandrasekhar-Fermi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian , G. Kowal

We discuss evolution of the magnetic flux density and angular velocity in a molecular cloud core, on the basis of three-dimensional numerical simulations, in which a rotating magnetized cloud fragments and collapses to form a very dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro N Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoyuki Hanawa

Abridged. It is important for the star formation process to understand the collapse of a prestellar dense core. We investigate the effect of the magnetic field during the first collapse up to the formation of the firstcore, focusing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , S. Fromang

We report the highest spatial resolution measurement of magnetic fields in M17 using thermal dust polarization taken by SOFIA/HAWC+ centered at 154 $\mu$m wavelength. Using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, we found the presence of…

We investigate the physical properties of dense cores formed in turbulent, magnetized, parsec-scale clumps of molecular clouds, using three-dimensional numerical simulations that include protostellar outflow feedback. The dense cores are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

Magnetic fields in red giant stars remain a poorly understood topic, particularly in what concerns their intensity in regions far below the surface. In this work, we propose that gravity-dominated mixed modes of high absolute radial order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-21 Pedro Gomes , Ilídio Lopes

We have performed 2D hydromagnetic simulations with an adaptive mesh refinement code to examine the response of a pre-existing initially spherical dense core to a non-linear fast-mode wave. One key parameter is the ratio of the wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Van Loo , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist