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The past decade has seen a revolution in our understanding of protoplanetary disk evolution and planet formation in single star systems. However, the majority of solar-type stars form in binary systems, so the impact of binary companions on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Adam L. Kraus , Michael J. Ireland , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Frantz Martinache

Stars form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. In the simplest case of a laminar (non-turbulent) core with the magnetic field aligned with the rotation axis, both analytic considerations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Hsien Shang

The question whether the interaction of a circumbinary disc with the central binary system leads to shrinking or expansion of the binary orbit has attracted considerable interest as it impacts the evolution of binary black holes and stellar…

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A 2D dynamic model is utilized to investigate star formation in rotating filamentary molecular clouds (FMCs) amidst magnetic fields. The study reveals that the emergence of field stars is possible under both weak and strong magnetic fields…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 Ashok Mondal

We carry out three-dimensional MHD simulations of star formation in turbulent, magnetized clouds, including ambipolar diffusion and feedback from protostellar outflows. The calculations focus on relatively diffuse clouds threaded by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

Disk formation in magnetized cloud cores is hindered by magnetic braking. Previous work has shown that for realistic levels of core magnetization, the magnetic field suppresses the formation of rotationally supported disks during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-07 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Hsien Shang

Context: The principal mechanism by which brown dwarfs form, and its relation to the formation of higher-mass (i.e. hydrogen-burning) stars, is poorly understood. Aims: We advocate a new model for the formation of brown dwarfs. Methods: In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon P. Goodwin , Ant Whitworth

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

Recent observations of young embedded clumpy clusters and statistical identifications of binary star clusters have provided new insights into the formation process and subsequent dynamical evolution of star clusters. The early dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-08 R. Darma , M. I. Arifyanto , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven

The majority of stars are in binary/multiple systems. How such systems form in turbulent, magnetized cores of molecular clouds in the presence of non-ideal MHD effects remains relatively under-explored. Through ATHENA++-based non-ideal MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Yisheng Tu , Zhi-Yun Li , Zhaohuan Zhu , Chun-Yen Hsu

We use magnetohydrodynamical simulations of converging flows to investigate the process of molecular cloud formation and evolution out of the magnetised ISM. Here, we investigate whether the observed subcritical HI clouds can become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-02 Bastian Körtgen , Robi Banerjee

Recent observations show that planet can reside in close binary systems with stellar separation of only about 20 AU. However, planet formation in such close binary systems is a challenge to current theory. One of the major theoretical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou

We consider the possible existence of a common channel of evolution of binary systems, which results in a gamma-ray burst during the formation of a black hole or the birth of a magnetar during the formation of a neutron star. We assume that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 A. I. Bogomazov , S. B. Popov

Angular momentum loss in ultracompact binaries, such as the AM Canum Venaticorum stars, is usually assumed to be due entirely to gravitational radiation. Motivated by the outflows observed in ultracompact binaries, we investigate whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-22 Alison Farmer , Gijs Roelofs

Most main sequence stars, unlike our Sun, belong to multiple systems with two or more stars. How and when these multiples come together and become bound is uncertain, since the earliest stages of star formation are difficult to resolve. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 A. Generozov , S. S. R. Offner , K. M. Kratter , H. B. Perets , D. Guszejnov , M. Y. Grudić

Previous work has shown that interactions between a central binary system and a circumbinary disc (CBD) can lead to the binary orbit either shrinking or expanding, depending on the properties of the disc. In this work, we perform…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 George Turpin , Richard Nelson

The interaction of a massive binary and a non-self-gravitating circumbinary accretion disc is considered. The shape of the stationary twisted disc produced by the binary is calculated. It is shown that the inner part of the disc must lie in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou , A. G. Polnarev

Outflows and jets are intimately related to the formation of stars, and play an important role in redistributing mass, energy and angular momentum within the dense core and parent cloud. The interplay between magnetic field and rotation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrea Ciardi , Patrick Hennebelle

The typical product of the star formation process is a binary star. Binaries have provided the first dynamical measures of the masses of pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars, providing support for the calibrations of PMS evolutionary tracks.…

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