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We investigate the launching of outflows from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of slowly and rapidly rotating magnetized stars using axisymmetric and exploratory 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. We find long-lasting outflows in both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

(abridged) The nature of early Class 0/I protostellar discs is not clearly understood. Early protostellar discs are needed to drive molecular outflows and jets observed in star forming regions, but there has been some debate to how they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Dennis F. Duffin , Ralph E. Pudritz , Daniel Seifried , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

In a comprehensive convergence study, we investigate the computational conditions necessary to resolve disk formation and jet-launching processes, and analyze possible caveats. We explore the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) processes of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Anders Kölligan , Rolf Kuiper

We report results from twelve simulations of the collapse of a molecular cloud core to form one or more protostars, comprising three field strengths (mass-to-flux ratios, {\mu}, of 5, 10, and 20) and four field geometries (with values of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-28 Benjamin T. Lewis , Matthew R. Bate

We investigate the driving mechanism of outflows and jets in star formation process using resistive MHD nested grid simulations. We found two distinct flows in the collapsing cloud core: Low-velocity outflows (sim 5 km/s) with a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

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 investigate outflows from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of rotating magnetized stars in cases where the magnetic field of a star is bunched into an X-type configuration using axisymmetric and full 3D MHD simulations. Such configuration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

We have developed a modified form of the equations of smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics which are stable in the presence of very steep density gradients. Using this formalism, we have performed simulations of the collapse of magnetised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-29 Benjamin T. Lewis , Matthew R. Bate , Daniel J. Price

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

We discuss recent progress in understanding the launching of outflows/jets from the disc-magnetosphere boundary of slowly and rapidly rotating magnetized stars. In most of the discussed models the interior of the disc is assumed to have a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , P. Lii

Recent observations uncover various phenomena around the protostar such as misalignment between the outflow and magnetic field, precession of the jet, and time variability of the ejected clumps, whose origins are under debate. We perform a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Shingo Hirano , Masahiro N. Machida

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

Numerical simulations of outflows formed during the collapse of 100 M_sun cloud cores are presented. We derive a generalised criterion from MHD wind theory to analyse the launching mechanism of these outflows. The criterion is successfully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Seifried , R. E. Pudritz , R. Banerjee , D. Duffin , R. S. Klessen

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

The evolution of the magnetic field and angular momentum in the collapsing cloud core is studied using three-dimensional resistive MHD nested grid simulations. Starting with a Bonnor-Ebert isothermal cloud rotating in a uniform magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

The pre-stellar cores in which low mass stars form are generally well magnetized. Our simulations show that early protostellar discs are massive and experience strong magnetic torques in the form of magnetic braking and protostellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dennis Duffin , Ralph E. Pudritz

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

A large body of theoretical and computational work shows that jets - modelled as magnetized disk winds - exert an external torque on their underlying disks that can efficiently remove angular momentum and act as major drivers of disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ralph E. Pudritz , Robi Banerjee

Jet driving and fragmentation process in collapsing primordial cloud are studied using three-dimensional MHD nested grid simulations. Starting from a rotating magnetized spherical cloud with the number density of n=10^3 cm^-3, we follow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been applied to investigate the interrelation of a central stellar magnetosphere and stellar wind with a surrounding magnetized disk outflow and how the overall formation of a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christian Fendt
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