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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

When dense cores in molecular clouds or filamentary structures collapse and form protostars, they may undergo fragmentation and form binary or multiple systems. In this paper, we investigated the key mechanisms influencing fragmentation by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-31 Jo-Shui Kao , Hsi-Wei Yen , Shih-Ping Lai

We estimate the polarized thermal dust emission from MHD simulations of protostellar collapse and outflow formation in order to investigate alignment of outflows with magnetic fields. The polarization maps indicate that alignment of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Takeshi Nakazato , Kohji Tomisaka

To contribute to the understanding of the magnetic field's influence on the segregation of CNM in the solar neighbourhood we analyse MHD simulations which include the main physical characteristics of the local neutral atomic ISM. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 M. A. Villagran , A. Gazol

Context: The formation of high-mass star-forming regions from their parental gas cloud and the subsequent fragmentation processes lie at the heart of star formation research. Aims: We aim to study the dynamical and fragmentation properties…

Far-infrared (FIR) dust polarimetry enables the study of interstellar magnetic fields via tracing of the polarized emission from dust grains that are partially aligned with the direction of the field. The advent of high quality polarimetric…

Measurement of magnetic fields in dense molecular clouds is essential for understanding the fragmentation process prior to star formation. Radio interferometric observations of CCS 22.3 GHz emission, from the starless core TMC-1C, have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Atanu Koley , Nirupam Roy , Emmanuel Momjian , Anuj P. Sarma , Abhirup Datta

Despite the rich observational results on interstellar magnetic fields in star-forming regions, it is still unclear how dynamically significant the magnetic fields are at varying physical scales, because direct measurement of the field…

We study the large-scale magnetic field structure and its interplay with the gas dynamics in the Monoceros OB1 East molecular cloud. We combine observations of dust polarised emission from the Planck telescope and CO molecular line emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 D. Alina , J. Montillaud , Y. Hu , A. Lazarian , I. Ristorcelli , E. Abdikamalov , S. Sagynbayeva , M. Juvela , T. Liu , J. -S. Carrière

Through polarization observations water masers are excellent probes of magnetic fields in the maser region. Magnetic field strengths, such as those in the water masers regions of the envelopes of late-type stars and star-forming regions,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. H. T. Vlemmings

We study the ground state quantum fragmentation in a mixture of a polar condensate and a ferromagnetic condensate when subject to an external magnetic field. We pay more attentions to the polar condensate and find that it will be less…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 Jie Zhang , Xue Hou , Bin Chen , Yunbo Zhang

We study dissipation process of magnetic fields in the metallicity range $0-1 Z_{\odot}$ for contracting prestellar cloud cores. By solving non-equilibrium chemistry for important charged species including charged grains, we evaluate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Hajime Susa , Kentaro Doi , Kazuyuki Omukai

We present JCMT POL-2 850 um dust polarization observations and Mimir H band stellar polarization observations toward the starless core L1512. We detect the highly-ordered core-scale magnetic field traced by the POL-2 data, of which the…

Dust polarization observational results are analyzed for the high-mass star formation region W51 from the largest parent cloud ($\sim$ 2~pc, JCMT) to the large-scale envelope ($\sim$ 0.5~pc, BIMA) down to the collapsing core e2 ($\sim$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick M. Koch , Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho

We present an analysis of polarised dust emission at 850 micron for a parsec long filament in the northern part of the Orion B molecular cloud. The region was observed by the JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2 polarimeter. The filament has a line mass (~80…

We have performed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the collapse and fragmentation of molecular cloud cores using a new algorithm for MHD within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, that enforces the zero magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

We present 850~$\mu$m linear polarization and C$^{18}$O~(3-2) and $^{13}$CO~(3-2) molecular line observations toward the filaments (F13 and F13S) in the Cocoon Nebula (IC~5146) using the JCMT POL-2 and HARP instruments. F13 and F13S are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-28 Eun Jung Chung , Chang Won Lee , Shinyoung Kim , Mario Tafalla , Hyunju Yoo , Jungyeon Cho , Woojin Kwon

We study the mass-to-flux ratio (M/\Phi) of clumps and cores in simulations of supersonic, magnetohydrodynamical turbulence for different initial magnetic field strengths. We investigate whether the (M/\Phi)-ratio of core and envelope, R =…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Erik Bertram , Christoph Federrath , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

Observational data for the hourglass-like magnetic field toward the starless dense core FeSt 1-457 were compared with a flux freezing magnetic field model (Myers et al. 2018). Fitting of the observed plane-of-sky magnetic field using the…