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In this paper, we study the evolutions of a self-gravitating cloud of bosonic dark matter with finite angular momentum and self-interaction. This is achieved by using the sixth-order pseudospectral operator splitting method to solve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 Kuldeep J. Purohit , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Jitesh R. Bhatt , Prashant K. Mehta

The configuration and evolution of the magnetic field in star-forming cores are investigated in order to directly compare simulations and observations. We prepare four different initial clouds having different magnetic field strengths and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Akimasa Kataoka , Masahiro N. Machida , Kohji Tomisaka

Stars form as an end product of the gravitational collapse of cold, dense gas in magnetized molecular clouds. This multi-scale scenario occurs via the formation of two quasi-hydrostatic cores and involves complex physical processes, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Asmita Bhandare , Rolf Kuiper , Thomas Henning , Christian Fendt , Mario Flock , Gabriel-Dominique Marleau

We compute numerical simulations of spherical collapse triggered by a slow increase in external pressure. We compare isothermal models to models including cooling with a simple but self-consistent treatment of the coupling between gas,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Lesaffre , A. Belloche , J. -P. Chieze , P. Andre

We investigate, through a series of numerical calculations, the evolution of dense cores that are accreting external gas up to and beyond the point of star formation. Our model clouds are spherical, unmagnetized configurations with fixed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Motahareh Mohammadpour , Steven W. Stahler

In two previous papers we formulated and solved, for a fiducial set of free parameters, the problem of the formation and evolution of a magnetically supercritical core inside a magnetically subcritical parent cloud. In this paper we present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

We present fully GRMHD simulations of the merger of binary neutron star (BNS) systems. We consider BNSs producing a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) that collapses to a spinning black hole (BH) surrounded by a magnetized accretion disk in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-31 Takumu Kawamura , Bruno Giacomazzo , Wolfgang Kastaun , Riccardo Ciolfi , Andrea Endrizzi , Luca Baiotti , Rosalba Perna

We use resistive magnetohydrodynamical simulations with the nested grid technique to study the formation of protoplanetary disks around protostars from molecular cloud cores that provide the realistic environments for planet formation. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto

It is established that both radiative transfer and magnetic field have a strong impact on the collapse and the fragmentation of prestellar dense cores, but no consistent calculation exists yet at such scales. We present original AMR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Commercon , P. Hennebelle , E. Audit , G. Chabrier , R. Teyssier

An hourglass-shaped magnetic field pattern arises naturally from the gravitational collapse of a star-forming gas cloud. Most studies have focused on the prestellar collapse phase, when the structure has a smooth and monotonic radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Shantanu Basu , Xiyuan Li , Gianfranco Bino

Efficient magnetic braking is a formidable obstacle to the formation of rotationally supported disks (RSDs) around protostars in magnetized dense cores. We have previously shown, through 2D (axisymmetric) non-ideal MHD simulations, that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-17 Bo Zhao , Paola Caselli , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky

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

We simulate the formation and collapse of prestellar cores at few-AU resolution in a set of radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) using the grid-based code RAMSES-RT. We adopt, for the first time to our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti

Advanced primordial chemistry networks have been developed to model the collapse of metal-free baryonic gas within the gravitational well of dark matter (DM) halos and its subsequent collapse into Population III stars. At the low densities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-22 Lewis R. Prole , Paul C. Clark , Felix D. Priestley , Simon C. O. Glover , John A. Regan

The birth process of circumstellar disks remains poorly constrained due to observational and numerical challenges. Recent numerical works have shown that the small-scale physics, often wrapped into a sub-grid model, play a crucial role in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon

The formation of the first stars out of metal-free gas appears to result in stars at least an order of magnitude more massive than in the present-day case. We here consider what controls the transition from a primordial to a modern initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. -K. Jappsen , M. -M. Mac Low , S. C. O. Glover , R. S. Klessen , S. Kitsionas

The study of prestellar cores is critical as they set the initial conditions in star formation and determine the final mass of the stellar object. To date, several hypotheses are describing their gravitational collapse. We perform detailed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 E. Koumpia , L. Evans , J. Di Francesco , F. F. S. van der Tak , R. D. Oudmaijer

We present the results of a large suite of three-dimensional (3D) models of the collapse of magnetic molecular cloud cores using the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code Enzo2.2 in the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. P. Boss , S. A. Keiser

We use numerical hydrodynamic simulations to investigate prestellar core formation in the dynamic environment of giant molecular clouds, focusing on planar post-shock layers produced by colliding turbulent flows. A key goal is to test how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hao Gong , Eve C. Ostriker

Neutron stars are commonly considered as astronomical objects having highdensity interiors and an inner core region in which various hadronic matter phases are expected. Several studies show that the inner structures affect macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Tomoki Endo