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Nuclear rings are sites of intense star formation at the centers of barred galaxies. To understand what determines the structure and star formation rate (SFR; $\dot{M}_{\rm SF}$) of nuclear rings, we run semi-global, hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-15 Sanghyuk Moon , Woong-Tae Kim , Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Nuclear rings in barred galaxies are sites of active star formation. We use hydrodynamic simulations to study temporal and spatial behavior of star formation occurring in nuclear rings of barred galaxies where radial gas inflows are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Woo-Young Seo , Woong-Tae Kim

Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the smallest size scales. In this review we discuss the effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 Mark R. Krumholz , Christoph Federrath

Massive stars disproportionately influence their surroundings. How they form has only started to become clear recently through radiation gas dynamical simulations. However, until now, no simulation has simultaneously included both magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Barred galaxies are known to possess magnetic fields that may affect the properties of bar substructures such as dust lanes and nuclear rings. We use two-dimensional high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Woong-Tae Kim , James M. Stone

Observations indicate that the star formation rate (SFR) of nuclear rings varies considerably with time and is sometimes asymmetric rather than being uniform across a ring. To understand what controls temporal and spatial distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Sanghyuk Moon , Woong-Tae Kim , Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We examine the effect of magnetic fields on star cluster formation by performing simulations following the self-gravitating collapse of a turbulent molecular cloud to form stars in ideal MHD. The collapse of the cloud is computed for global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Price , Matthew Bate

Radio continuum observations of barred galaxies revealed strong magnetic fields of >= 50-100 muG in the circumnuclear starbursts. Such fields are dynamically important and give rise to magnetic stress that causes inflow of gas towards the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Rainer Beck

While magnetic fields are important in contemporary star formation, their role in primordial star formation is unknown. Magnetic fields of order 10^-16 G are produced by the Biermann battery due to the curved shocks and turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Christopher F. McKee , Athena Stacy , Pak Shing Li

We present magnetohydrodynamic simulations aimed at studying the effect of the magnetic suppression of turbulence (generated through various instabilities during the formation of molecular clouds by converging) on the subsequent star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-08 Zamora-Avilés Manuel , Vázquez-Semadeni Enrique , Körtgen Bastian , Banerjee Robi , Hartmann Lee

Interstellar magnetic fields are strong: up to 25 muG in spiral arms and 40 muG in nuclear regions. In the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 the average magnetic energy density exceeds that of the thermal gas. Magnetic fields control the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Rainer Beck

Numerical models of gas inflow towards a supermassive black hole (SMBH) show that star formation may occur in such an environment through the growth of a gravitationally unstable gas disc. We consider the effect of nuclear activity on such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Christopher C. Frazer , Fabian Heitsch

Magnetic fields are an elemental part of the interstellar medium in galaxies. However, their impact on gas dynamics and star formation in galaxies remains controversial. We use a suite of global magnetohydrodynamical simulations of isolated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Bastian Körtgen , Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz , Wolfram Schmidt

We here investigate the possibility that the observed collimated outflows in luminous infrared galaxies (LIGs) and some Seyfert galaxies can be produced in a starburst (SB) environment. A nuclear disk can be quickly produced by gas infall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. A. Medina Tanco

Magnetic fields play a vital role in numerous astrophysical processes such as star formation and the interstellar medium. In particular, their role in the formation and evolution of galaxies is not well understood. This paper presents…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Huai-Hsuan Chiu , Ke-Jung Chen

Magnetic fields are found in many astrophysical objects, ranging from galaxy clusters to the interstellar medium of galaxies and neutron stars. Strong magnetic fields are also observed in massive stars, but it is still unclear how they are…

I review the effects of magnetic fields on star formation in galaxies. This includes the effects of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) at galactic scales, magneto-Jeans and swing instabilities, Parker instabilities, and the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-16 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Using high-resolution AthenaK simulations of a twisted toroidal flux tube, we study the flux emergence of magnetic structures in the shear layer of a hot massive neutron star typical of a binary neutron star remnant. High-resolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Jacob Fields , David Radice , Peter Hammond

We use hydrodynamic simulations to study the effect of spiral arms on the star formation rate (SFR) occurring in nuclear rings of barred-spiral galaxies. We find that spiral arms can be an efficient means of gas transport from the outskirts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Woo-Young Seo , Woong-Tae Kim

The extraordinary energetic activity of magnetars is usually explained in terms of dissipation of a huge internal magnetic field of the order of $10^{15-16}$G. How such a strong magnetic field can originate during the formation of a neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 A. G. Pili , N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna
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