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Large masses of absorbing material are inferred to exist in cooling flows in clusters of galaxies from the excess X-ray absorption in the spectra of some X-ray clusters. The absorbing material is probably in the form of cold clouds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. S. Friaca , L. C. Jafelice

We discuss the effects of the magnetic field observed in molecular clouds on the process of star formation, concentrating on the phase of gravitational collapse of low-mass dense cores, cradles of sunlike stars. We summarize recent analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susana Lizano , Daniele Galli

Throughout the passage within the Galactic halo, high-velocity clouds (HVCs) sweep up ambient magnetic fields and form stretched and draped configurations of magnetic fields around them. Many earlier numerical studies adopt spherically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Seoyoung Lyla Jung , Asger Grønnow , Naomi McClure-Griffiths

We extend previous studies of the physics of interstellar cloud collisions by beginning investigation of the role of magnetic fields through 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations. We study head-on collisions between equal mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Francesco Miniati , Dongsu Ryu , Andrea Ferrara , T. W. Jones

There is now abundant observational evidence that star formation is a highly dynamical process that connects filament hierarchies and supernova feedback from galaxy scale kpc filaments and superbubbles, to giant molecular clouds (GMCs) on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-30 Bo Zhao , Ralph E. Pudritz , Rachel Pillsworth , Hector Robinson , James Wadsley

High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs) are believed to be an important source of gas accretion for star formation in the Milky Way. Earlier numerical studies have found that the Galactic magnetic field and radiative cooling strongly affects accretion.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Asger Grønnow , Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Filippo Fraternali

Stars rarely form in isolation. Nearly half of the stars in the Milky Way have a companion, and this fraction increases in star-forming regions. However, why some dense cores and filaments form bound pairs while others form single stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Aaron T. Lee , Stella S. R. Offner , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Rachel A. Smullen , Pak Shing Li

Observations indicate that molecular clouds are strongly magnetized, and that magnetic fields influence the formation of stars. A key observation supporting the conclusion that molecular clouds are significantly magnetized is that the…

Understanding star formation rates (SFR) is a central goal of modern star-formation models, which mainly involve gravity, turbulence and, in some cases, magnetic fields (B-fields). However, a connection between B-fields and SFR has never…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-27 Hua-bai Li , Hangjin Jiang , Xiaodan Fan , Qilao Gu , Yapeng Zhang

Cloud-cloud collision (CCC) has been proposed as a mechanism for triggering massive star formation. Observations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies have revealed the presence of CCCs with collision velocity ($v_{\rm col}$) of 1-40 km/s,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-27 Shin Inoue , Kouji Ohta , Fumiya Maeda

As well known, magnetic fields in space are distributed very inhomogeneously. Some-times field distributions have forms of filaments with high magnetic field values. As many ob-servations show, such a filamentation takes place in convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-03 Evgeny A. Kuznetsov , Evgeny A. Mikhailov

We uncover a hub-filament system associated with massive star formation in the G083.097$+$03.270. Diagnosed with simultaneous $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O line observations, the region is found to host two distinct and elongated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Alik Panja , Lokesh K. Dewangan , Tapas Baug , Wen Ping Chen , Yan Sun , Tirthendu Sinha , Soumen Mondal

In diffuse molecular clouds, possible precursors of star-forming clouds, the effect of the magnetic field is unclear. In this work we compare the orientations of filamentary structures in the Polaris Flare, as seen through dust emission by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 G. V. Panopoulou , I. Psaradaki , K. Tassis

Propagation of fast-mode magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in the interstellar space is simulated, and focusing MHD wave (FMW) model is proposed for triggered star formation (SF). Waves from an SF region are trapped by nearby molecular clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Yoshiaki Sofue

Star formation is inefficient. Recent advances in numerical simulations and theoretical models of molecular clouds show that the combined effects of interstellar turbulence, magnetic fields and stellar feedback can explain the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Christoph Federrath

The role of MHD turbulence in astrophysical environments is still highly debated. An important question that permeates this debate is the transport of magnetic flux. This is particularly important, for instance, in the context of star…

Magnetic fields play an important role in star formation by regulating the removal of angular momentum from collapsing molecular cloud cores. Hall diffusion is known to be important to the magnetic field behaviour at many of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Catherine R. Braiding , Mark Wardle

We investigate the role of ambipolar diffusion (AD) in collisions between magnetized giant molecular clouds (GMCs), which may be an important mechanism for triggering star cluster formation. Three dimensional simulations of GMC collisions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Duncan Christie , Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan

We study star cluster formation in various environments with different metallicities and column densities by performing a suite of three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations. We find that the photoionization feedback from massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-25 Hajime Fukushima , Hidenobu Yajima , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Magnetic fields play an important role for the formation of stars in both local and high-redshift galaxies. Recent studies of dynamo amplification in the first dark matter haloes suggest that significant magnetic fields were likely present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-08 Piyush Sharda , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz