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We obtain self-similar solutions that describe the gravitational collapse of nonrotating, isothermal, magnetic molecular cloud cores. We use simplifying assumptions but explicitly include the induction equation, and the semianalytic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ioannis Contopoulos , Glenn E. Ciolek , Arieh Konigl

We investigate the formation of circumstellar disks and outflows subsequent to the collapse of molecular cloud cores with the magnetic field and turbulence. Numerical simulations are performed by using an adaptive mesh refinement to follow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We use magnetic collapse models to place some constraints on the formation and angular momentum evolution of circumstellar disks which are embedded in magnetized cloud cores. Previous models have shown that the early evolution of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Shantanu Basu

Collapse of the rotating magnetized molecular cloud core is studied with the axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations. Due to the change of the equation of state of the interstellar gas, the molecular cloud cores experience…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kohji Tomisaka

We present a numerical simulation of the dynamical collapse of a nonrotating magnetic molecular cloud core and follow the core's evolution through the formation of a central point mass and its subsequent growth to a 1 solar-mass protostar.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Glenn E. Ciolek , Arieh Konigl

We study numerically the collapse of rotating, magnetized molecular cloud cores, focusing on rotation and magnetic braking during the main accretion phase of isolated star formation. Motivated by previous numerical work and analytic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Allen , Z. Y. Li , F. H. Shu

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

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

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

The collapse of the magnetic rotating protostellar cloud with mass of $10\,M_{\odot}$ is numerically studied. The initial ratios of the thermal, magnetic, and rotational energies of the cloud to the modulus of its gravitational energy are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Natalya S. Kargaltseva , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov , Alexander E. Dudorov , Andrey G. Zhilkin

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 numerically model the collapse of magnetic rotating protostellar clouds with mass of 10 $M_{sun}$. The simulations are carried out with the help of 2D MHD code Enlil. The structure of the cloud at the isothermal stage of the collapse is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 N. S. Kargaltseva , S. A. Khaibrakhmanov , A. E. Dudorov , S. N. Zamozdra , A. G. Zhilkin

We investigate the roles of magnetic fields and ambipolar diffusion during prestellar core formation in turbulent giant molecular clouds (GMCs), using three-dimensional numerical simulations. Our simulations focus on the shocked layer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Che-Yu Chen , Eve C. Ostriker

We have performed smoothed particle radiation magnetohydrodynamics (SPRMHD) simulations of the collapse of rotating, magnetised molecular cloud cores to form protostars. The calculations follow the formation and evolution of the first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew R. Bate , Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price

We formulate the problem of the formation and collapse of nonaxisymmetric protostellar cores in weakly ionized, self-gravitating, magnetic molecular clouds. In our formulation, molecular clouds are approximated as isothermal, thin (but with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Glenn E. Ciolek , Shantanu Basu

We present some important conclusions from recent calculations pertaining to the collapse of rotating molecular cloud cores with axial symmetry, corresponding to evolution of young stellar objects through classes 0 and begin of class I.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. M. Tscharnuter , J. Schönke , H. -P. Gail , E. Lüttjohann

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 examined the gravitational contraction of isothermal molecular cloud cores with slow rotation by means of two-dimensional numerical simulations. Applying a sink-cell method, we followed the evolution of the cloud cores up to the stages…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fumitaka Nakamura

Subsequent to Paper I, the evolution and fragmentation of a rotating magnetized cloud are studied with use of three-dimensional MHD nested-grid simulations. After the isothermal runaway collapse, an adiabatic gas forms a protostellar first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro N Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa , Kohji Tomisaka

We studied the collapse of rotating molecular cloud cores with inclined magnetic fields, based on three-dimensional numerical simulations.The numerical simulations start from a rotating Bonnor-Ebert isothermal cloud in a uniform magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa , Kohji Tomisaka
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