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We present results from the first population synthesis study of protostellar discs. We analyse the evolution and properties of a large sample of protostellar discs formed in a radiation hydrodynamical simulation of star cluster formation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Matthew R. Bate

The gas from which stars form is magnetized, and strong magnetic fields can efficiently transport angular momentum. Most theoretical models of this phenomenon find that it should prevent formation of large (>100 AU), rotationally-supported…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark R. Krumholz , Richard M. Crutcher , Charles L. H. Hull

We investigate the formation and early evolution of a protostellar disc from a magnetized pre-stellar core using non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations including ambipolar diffusion and Ohmic dissipation. The dynamical contraction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Wenrui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz

We use a 3D radiative non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to investigate the formation and evolution of a young protostellar disc from a magnetized pre-stellar core. The simulation covers the first ${\sim}10~{\rm kyr}$ after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Wenrui Xu , Matthew W. Kunz

We present the analysis of the properties of large samples of protostellar discs formed in four radiation hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation. The four calculations have metallicities of 0.01, 0.1, 1 and 3 times solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Daniel Elsender , Matthew R. Bate

The formation of protoplanetary discs during the collapse of molecular dense cores is significantly influenced by angular momentum transport, notably by the magnetic torque. In turn, the evolution of the magnetic field is determined by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Patrick Hennebelle , Benoit Commercon , Gilles Chabrier , Pierre Marchand

Protoplanetary discs are made of gas and dust orbiting a young star. They are also the birth place of planetary systems, which motivates a large amount of observational and theoretical research. In these lecture notes, I present a review of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 G. Lesur

The early evolution of protostellar, star-forming discs, including their density structure, turbulence, magnetic dynamics, and accretion variability, remains poorly understood. We present high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Trey Qingyun Yang , Christoph Federrath

Young protostellar discs provide the initial conditions for planet formation. The properties of these discs may be different from those of late-phase (T Tauri) discs due to continuing infall from the envelope and protostellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Benjamin A. MacFarlane , Dimitris Stamatellos

The magnetohydrodynamical behavior (MHD) of accretion disks is reviewed. A detailed presentation of the fundamental MHD equations appropriate for protostellar disks is given. The combination of a weak (subthermal) magnetic field and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-05 Steven A. Balbus

Protoplanetary disks form through angular momentum conservation in collapsing dense cores. In this work, we perform the first simulations with a maximal resolution down to the astronomical unit (au) of protoplanetary disk formation, through…

We study the structure and evolution of the very early protostellar disk (``protodisk'') just after protostar formation, where disk self-gravity dominates and the stellar contribution is dynamically minor. The disk redistributes angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Majd Noel , Rahul Khanna , Shahram Abbassi , Sami Dib , Shantanu Basu

Although protostars and disks are often studied separately owing to numerical and observational challenges, breakthroughs in recent years have highlighted the need to study both objects in concert. The role of magnetic fields in this regard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Ugo Lebreuilly , Benoît Commerçon

Through the magnetic braking and the launching of protostellar outflows, magnetic fields play a major role in the regulation of angular momentum in star formation, which directly impacts the formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierre Marchand , Kengo Tomida , Kei Tanaka , Benoît Commerçon , Gilles Chabrier

Abridged: We use three-dimensional SPH simulations to investigate the collapse of low-mass prestellar cores and the formation and early evolution of protostellar discs. The initial conditions are slightly supercritical Bonnor-Ebert spheres…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Walch , A. Burkert , A. Whitworth , T. Naab , M. Gritschneder

In our previous study (Tsukamoto {\it et al.} 2023), we investigated formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks with 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering dust growth, and found that the modified equations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yusuke Tsukamoto

Truncated abstract: The formation of a protostellar disc is a natural outcome during the star formation process. As gas in a molecular cloud core collapses under self-gravity, the angular momentum of the gas will slow its collapse on small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 James Wurster , Zhi-Yun Li

The formation of protostellar disks out of molecular cloud cores is still not fully understood. Under ideal MHD conditions, the removal of angular momentum from the disk progenitor by the typically embedded magnetic field may prevent the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Santos-Lima , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

We couple non-magnetic, hydrodynamical simulations of collapsing protostellar cores with radiative transfer evolutionary models to generate synthetic observations. We then use these synthetic observations to investigate the extent to which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael M. Dunham , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Héctor G. Arce

We use time-dependent, one-dimensional disc models to investigate the evolution of protostellar discs that form through the collapse of molecular cloud cores and in which the primary transport mechanism is self-gravity. We assume that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. K. M. Rice , J. H. Mayo , P. J. Armitage
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