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The interstellar medium is characterised by an intricate filamentary network which exhibits complex structures. These show a variety of different shapes (e.g. junctions, rings, etc.) deviating strongly from the usually assumed cylindrical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Elena Hoemann , Stefan Heigl , Andreas Burkert

We have used the AMR hydrodynamic code, MG, to perform 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations with self-gravity of stellar feedback in a sheet-like molecular cloud formed through the action of the thermal instability. We simulate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 C. J. Wareing , J. M. Pittard , S. A. E. G. Falle

Observations suggest that star formation in filamentary molecular clouds occurs in a two-step process, with the formation of filaments preceding that of prestellar cores and stars. Here, we apply the gravo-turbulent fragmentation theory of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Yueh-Ning Lee , Patrick Hennebelle , Gilles Chabrier

Building on our previous hydrodynamic study of the angular momenta of cloud cores formed during gravitational collapse of star-forming molecular gas in our previous work, we now examine core properties assuming ideal magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Aleksandra Kuznetsova , Lee Hartmann , Fabian Heitsch

Filamentary molecular clouds are regarded as the place where newborn stars are formed. In particular, a hub region, a place where it appears as if several filaments are colliding, often indicates active star formation. To understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kohji Tomisaka

Collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) have been proposed as a mechanism to trigger massive star and star cluster formation. To investigate the astrochemical signatures of such collisions, we carry out 3D magnetohydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-24 Chia-Jung Hsu , Jonathan C. Tan , Jonathan Holdship , Duo , Xu , Serena Viti , Benjamin Wu , Brandt Gaches

Recent observations of neutral Galactic interstellar medium showed that filamentary structures of HI clouds are aligned with the interstellar magnetic field. Many interesting applications are proposed based on the alignment such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We simulate the formation of molecular clouds in colliding flows of warm neutral medium with the adaptive mesh refinement code {\sc Flash}. We include a chemical network to treat heating and cooling and to follow the formation of molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-26 Michael Weis , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Shashwata Ganguly

In giant molecular clouds (GMCs), shocks driven by converging turbulent flows create high-density, strongly-magnetized regions that are locally sheetlike. In previous work, we showed that within these layers, dense filaments and embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Che-Yu Chen , Eve C. Ostriker

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

Magnetic reconnection (MR) in collisionless plasma is often attributed to the off-diagonal electron Reynolds stress, which can give rise to a large induction electric field in the reconnection region. However, in magneto-hydro-dynamics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Zhi-Wei Ma , Tong Chen

The collapse and fragmentation of initially filamentary, magnetic molecular clouds is calculated in three dimensions with a gravitational, radiative hydrodynamics code. The code includes magnetic field effects in an approximate manner:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alan P. Boss

Cloud-cloud collisions are expected to trigger star formation by compressing gas into dense, gravitationally unstable regions. However, the role of magnetic fields in this process is unclear. We use SPH to model head-on collisions between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Theotokis Georgatos , Anthony P. Whitworth

The structure and mechanical properties of a simple two-dimensional model of a cohesive powder are investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Micromechanical ingredients involve elasticity, friction, a short range attraction and,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-24 Francisco Gilabert , Jean-Noel Roux , Antonio Castellanos

Filaments are special plasma phenomena embedded in the solar atmosphere, characterized by unique thermodynamic properties and magnetic structures. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are useful to investigate the eruption mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yihua Li , Yang Guo , Jinhan Guo , M. D. Ding , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We run numerical simulations of molecular clouds (MCs), adopting properties similar to those found in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way. For this, we employ the moving mesh code Arepo and perform simulations which account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Erik Bertram , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Sarah E. Ragan , Ralf S. Klessen

We investigated the effect of magnetic fields on the collision process between dense molecular cores. We performed three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of collisions between two self-gravitating cores using the Enzo adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 Shinichi. W. Kinoshita , Fumitaka Nakamura

The electron inertia term and the off-diagonal electron pressure terms are well-known for the frozen-in condition breakdown in collisionless magnetic reconnection, which are naturally kinetic and difficult to be employed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 H. W. Zhang , Z. W. Ma , T. Chen

We present a set of numerical experiments designed to systematically investigate how turbulence and magnetic fields influence the morphology, energetics, and dynamics of filaments produced in wind-cloud interactions. We cover 3D…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Christoph Federrath , Roland Crocker , Geoffrey Bicknell

Recent dust continuum surveys have shown that filamentary structures are ubiquitous along the Galactic plane. While the study of their global properties has gained momentum recently, we are still far from fully understanding their origin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Yanett Contreras , Jill Rathborne , Guido Garay