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Like their lower mass siblings, massive protostars can be expected to: a) be surrounded by circumstellar disks and b) launch magnetically-driven jets and outflows. The disk formation and global evolution is thereby controlled by advection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 André Oliva , Rolf Kuiper

We use observed radial profiles of mass surface densities of total, $\Sigma_g$, & molecular, $\Sigma_{\rm H2}$, gas, rotation velocity & star formation rate (SFR) surface density, $\Sigma_{\rm sfr}$, of the molecular-rich ($\Sigma_{\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Chutipong Suwannajak , Jonathan C. Tan , Adam K. Leroy

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations as well as observations indicate that spiral galaxies are comprised of five different components: dark matter halo, stellar disc, stellar bulge, gaseous disc and gaseous halo. While the first four…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Benjamin P. Moster , Andrea V. Maccio' , Rachel S. Somerville , Thorsten Naab , Thomas J. Cox

We study the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation between average star formation rate and average cold gas surface density in the Hi dominated ISM of nearby spiral and dwarf irregular galaxies. We divide the galaxies into grid cells varying from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Sambit Roychowdhury , Mei-Ling Huang , Guinevere Kauffmann , Jing Wang , Jayaram N. Chengalur

We explore the pulsationally driven orbital mass ejection mechanism for Be star disc formation using isothermal, 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and hydrodynamic simulations. Non-radial pulsations are added to a star rotating at 95\% of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 Sean M. Ressler

The Universe is pervaded by magnetic fields in different scales, although for simplicity, they are ignored in most cosmological simulations. In this paper, we use the TNG50, which is a large cosmological galaxy formation simulation that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-28 Mohammad Hosseinirad , Fatemeh Tabatabaei , Mojtaba Raouf , Mahmood Roshan

We investigate the dependence of star formation and the distribution of the components of galaxies on the strength of ram pressure. Several mock observations in X-ray, H$\alpha$ and HI wavelength for different ram-pressure scenarios are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. Kapferer , C. Sluka , S. Schindler , C. Ferrari , B. Ziegler

We investigate the formation of stars within giant molecular clouds (GMCs) evolving in environments of different global magnetic field strength and large-scale dynamics. Building upon a series of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Duncan Christie , Fumitaka Nakamura

We investigate the effects of varying the intensity of the primordial magnetic seed field on the global properties of the galaxy population in ideal magnetohydrodynamic cosmological simulations performed with the moving-mesh code AREPO. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger

We present a model for star formation and supernova feedback that describes the multi-phase structure of star forming gas on scales that are typically not resolved in cosmological simulations. Our approach includes radiative heating and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-19 Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Context. The impact of stellar feedback on the Kennicutt-Schmidt law (KS law), which relates star formation rate (SFR) to surface gas density, is a topic of ongoing debate. The interpretation of individual cloud observations is challenging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-01 Paolo Suin , Annie Zavagno , Tine Colman , Patrick Hennebelle , Antoine Verliat , Delphine Russeil

Feedback from massive stars is believed to play a critical role in shaping the galaxy mass function, the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM), and the low efficiency of star formation, but the exact form of the feedback is uncertain.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

Empirical star formation laws from the last 20 years are reviewed with a comparison to simulations. The current form in main galaxy disks has a linear relationship between the star formation rate per unit area and the molecular cloud mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Magnetic fields are observed in star forming regions. However simulations of the late stages of star formation that do not include magnetic fields provide a good fit to the properties of young stars including the initial mass function (IMF)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. J. Nixon , J. E. Pringle

We use the Arepo moving mesh code to simulate the evolution of molecular clouds exposed to a harsh environment similar to that found in the galactic center (GC), in an effort to understand why the star formation efficiency (SFE) of clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Erik Bertram , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Ralf S. Klessen

We use a high-resolution grid-based hydrodynamics method to simulate the multi-phase interstellar medium in a Milky Way-size quiescent disk galaxy. The models are global and three-dimensional, and include a treatment of star formation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elizabeth J. Tasker , Greg L. Bryan

In the present-day universe, magnetic fields play such essential roles in star formation as angular momentum transport and outflow driving, which control circumstellar disc formation/fragmentation and also the star formation efficiency.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

Star formation in disk galaxies is observed to follow the empirical Kennicutt-Schmidt law, a power-law relationship between the surface density of gas ($\Sigma_{gas}$) [$\textrm{M}_{\odot}\; \textrm{kpc}^{-2}$] and the star formation rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-04 Brian Jiang , Luca Ciotti , Zhaoming Gan , Jeremiah Ostriker

This paper reports simulations allowing for stochastic accretion and mass loss within closed and open systems modeled using a previously developed multi-population, multi-zone (halo, thick disk, thin disk) treatment. The star formation rate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Valle , S. N. Shore , D. Galli

(Abridged) The violent hierarchical nature of the LCDM cosmology poses serious difficulties for the formation of disk galaxies. To help resolve these issues, we describe a new, merger-driven scenario for the cosmological formation of disk…