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We investigate the formation and fragmentation of discs using a suite of three-dimensional smoothed particle radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Our models are initialised as 1M$_\odot$ rotating Bonnor-Ebert spheres that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 James Wurster , Matthew R. Bate

We carried out axisymmetric simulations of disk accretion to a rapidly rotating magnetized star in the "propeller" regime. Simulations show that propellers may be "weak" (with no outflows), and "strong" (with outflows). Investigation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-28 M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba

The relation between the mass accretion rate onto the circumstellar disc and the rate of mass ejection by magnetically driven winds is investigated using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Using a spherical cloud core with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Yuko Matsushita , Masahiro N. Machida , Yuya Sakurai , Takashi Hosokawa

Magnetic fields are known to play a crucial role in the star formation process, particularly in the formation of jets and outflows from protostellar discs. The magnetic field structure in star forming regions is not always uniform and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Isabella A. Gerrard , Christoph Federrath , Rajika Kuruwita

Recent three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the common-envelope interaction revealed the self-consistent formation of bipolar magnetically driven outflows launched from a toroidal structure resembling a circumbinary disk.…

We investigate the observational signatures of outflow rotation in protostellar systems using magnetohydrodynamics simulations of protostellar evolution with radiative transfer and synthetic observation. The velocity gradient perpendicular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Yusuke Aso , Masahiro N. Machida

The driving mechanism of protostellar outflows and jets and their effects on the star formation process obtained from recent theoretical and numerical studies are described. Low-velocity outflows are driven by an outer region of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Masahiro N. Machida

The collapse of slowly rotating molecular cloud cores threaded by magnetic fields is investigated by high-resolution numerical simulation. Outflow formation in the collapsing cloud cores is also followed. In the models examined, the cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kohji Tomisaka

We present self-similar solutions that describe the gravitational collapse of rotating, isothermal, magnetic molecular-cloud cores, relevant to the formation of rotationally supported protostellar disks. This work focuses on the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Arieh Konigl

Many types of stars have strong magnetic fields that can dynamically influence the flow of circumstellar matter. In stars with accretion disks, the stellar magnetic field can truncate the inner disk and determine the paths that matter can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 M. M. Romanova , S. P. Owocki

The nonlinear dynamics of outflows driven by magnetic explosion on the surface of a compact star is investigated through special relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. We adopt, as the initial equilibrium state, a spherical stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jin Matsumoto , Youhei Masada , Eiji Asano , Kazunari Shibata

We perform two-dimensional axially symmetric radiation-hydrodynamic simulations to assess the impact of outflows and radiative force feedback from massive protostars by varying when the protostellar outflow starts, the ratio of ejection to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Rolf Kuiper , Neal J. Turner , Harold W. Yorke

An investigation is made of disk accretion of matter onto a rotating star with an aligned dipole magnetic field. A new aspect of this work is that when the angular velocity of the star and disk differ substantially we argue that the $\bf B$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

The evolution of protostellar outflows is investigated under different mass accretion rates in the range $\sim10^{-5}-10^{-2} {\rm M}_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ with three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. A powerful outflow always appears…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 Masahiro N. Machida , Takashi Hosokawa

The driving mechanism of jets and outflows in star formation process is studied using resistive MHD nested grid simulations. We calculated cloud evolution from the molecular cloud core to the stellar core. In the collapsing cloud core, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Star formation proceeds via the collapse of a molecular cloud core over multiple dynamical timescales. Turbulence within cores results in a spatially non-uniform angular momentum of the cloud, causing a stochastic variation in orientation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher Spalding , Konstantin Batygin , Fred C. Adams

We investigate protostellar collapse of molecular cloud cores by numerical simulations, taking into account turbulence and magnetic fields. By using the adaptive mesh refinement technique, the collapse is followed over a wide dynamic range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa

Stellar feedback in the form of radiation pressure and magnetically-driven collimated outflows may limit the maximum mass that a star can achieve and affect the star-formation efficiency of massive pre-stellar cores. Here we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Anna L. Rosen , Mark R. Krumholz

An axisymmetric model of a cool, dynamo-active accretion disc is applied to protostellar discs. Thermally and magnetically driven outflows develop that are not collimated within 0.1 AU. In the presence of a central magnetic field from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brigitta von Rekowski , Axel Brandenburg , Wolfgang Dobler , Anvar Shukurov

Dynamical collapses of magnetized molecular cloud cores are studied with magnetohydrodynamical simulations from the run-away collapse phase to the accretion phase. In the run-away collapse phase, a disk threaded by magnetic field lines is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kohji Tomisaka