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We perform numerical simulations to investigate the stellar wind from interacting binary stars. Our aim is to find analytical formulae describing the outflow structure. In each binary system the more massive star is in the asymptotic giant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Luis C. Bermúdez-Bustamante , G. García-Segura , W. Steffen , L. Sabin

The effects of radiation drag force on the structure of relativistic electron-positron and electron-proton outflows are considered within the one-fluid approximation for quasi-monopole cold outflow. It is shown that for a Poynting-dominated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. S. Beskin , Nadia L. Zakamska , H. Sol

The formation of massive stars exceeding 10 solar masses usually results in large-scale molecular outflows. Numerical simulations, including ionization, of the formation of such stars show evidence for ionization-driven molecular outflows.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 Thomas Peters , Pamela D. Klaassen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen , Robi Banerjee

Observed protostellar outflows exhibit a variety of asymmetrical features, including remarkable unipolar outflows and bending outflows. Revealing the formation and early evolution of such asymmetrical protostellar outflows, especially the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-08 Daisuke Takaishi , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Miyu Kido , Shigehisa Takakuwa , Yoshiaki Misugi , Yuki Kudoh , Yasushi Suto

Dwarf galaxies provide powerful laboratories for studying galaxy formation physics. Their early assembly, shallow gravitational potentials, and bursty, clustered star formation histories make them especially sensitive to the processes that…

We characterize the physical properties of star-formation driven outflows in a sample of 29 local dwarf galaxies drawn from the Dwarf Galaxy Survey. We make use of Herschel/PACS archival data to search for atomic outflow signatures in the…

Massive gas outflows are considered a key component in the process of galaxy formation and evolution. Because of this, they are the topic of many studies aimed at learning more about their occurrence, location and physical conditions as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Raffaella Morganti

We present a model for the formation of massive ($M > 10 M_\odot$) stars through accretion-induced collisions in the cores of embedded dense stellar clusters. This model circumvents the problem of accreting onto a star whose luminosity is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ian A. Bonnell , Matthew R. Bate , Hans Zinnecker

Strong magnetic fields play a crucial role in the removal of angular momentum from collapsing clouds and protostellar discs and are necessary for the formation of disc winds as well as jets from the inner disc and indeed, strong large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan Braithwaite

Galaxies lose mass as a result of their luminosity or gaseous outflows. I calculate the resulting radial migration of stars outwards and show that it could potentially be measured with high resolution spectrographs on the next generation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-04 Abraham Loeb

Outflows form an integral component in regulating the gas cycling in and out of galaxies, although their impact on the galaxy hosts is still poorly understood. Here we present an analysis of 405 high mass (log…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Guido Roberts-Borsani , Amélie Saintonge , Karen L. Masters , David V. Stark

We study stellar-halo formation using six Milky Way-mass galaxies in FIRE-2 cosmological zoom simulations. We find that $5-40\%$ of the outer ($50-300$ kpc) stellar halo in each system consists of $\textit{in-situ}$ stars that were born in…

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

Stars with masses of >~ 20 solar masses have short Kelvin times that enable them to reach the main sequence while still accreting from their natal clouds. The resulting nuclear burning produces a huge luminosity and a correspondingly large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark R. Krumholz , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

Main sequence stars are commonly surrounded by debris disks, formed by cold far-IR-emitting dust that is thought to be continuously replenished by a reservoir of undetected dust-producing planetesimals. We have investigated the orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Moro-Martin , R. Malhotra

I investigate the effect of the radiation drag force on a star moving relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at z = 0. As expected, the perturbation is extremely small and has no observable consequences on orbital motions of…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 M. Kuassivi

Radiative feedback from populations II stars played a vital role in early structure formation. Particularly, photons below the Lyman limit can escape the star forming regions and produce a background ultraviolet (UV) flux which consequently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. A. Latif , D. R. G. Schleicher , S. Bovino , T. Grassi , M. Spaans

Large scale, weakly collimated outflows are very common in galaxies with large infrared luminosities. In complex systems in particular, where intense star formation (SF) coexists with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), it is not clear yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Claudio Melioli , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The opening angles of some protostellar outflows appear too narrow to match the expected core-star mass efficiency SFE = 0.3-0.5 if outflow cavity volume traces outflow mass, with a conical shape and a maximum opening angle near 90 deg.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Philip C. Myers , Michael M. Dunham , Ian W. Stephens

Galaxies grow inefficiently, with only a few percent of the available gas converted into stars each free-fall time. Feedback processes, such as outflowing winds driven by radiation pressure, supernovae or supermassive black hole accretion,…