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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

The formation of circumstellar disks is investigated using three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations, in which the initial prestellar cloud has a misaligned rotation axis with respect to the magnetic field. We examine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Shingo Hirano , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Shantanu Basu , Masahiro N. Machida

Observations of magnetic field strengths imply that molecular cloud fragments are individually close to being in a magnetically critical state, even though both magnetic field and column density measurements range over two orders of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shantanu Basu

Abridged. It is important for the star formation process to understand the collapse of a prestellar dense core. We investigate the effect of the magnetic field during the first collapse up to the formation of the firstcore, focusing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , S. Fromang

Stars and more particularly massive stars, have a drastic impact on galaxy evolution. Yet the conditions in which they form and collapse are still not fully understood. In particular, the influence of the magnetic field on the collapse of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Hennebelle , B. Commercon , M. Joos , R. S. Klessen , M. Krumholz , J. C. Tan , R. Teyssier

We investigate collapse of magnetic protostellar clouds of mass $10$ and $1 M_{\odot}$. The collapse is simulated numerically using the two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code `Enlil'. The simulations show that protostellar clouds…

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

Fragmentation process in a cylindrical magnetized cloud is studied with the nested grid method. The nested grid scheme use 15 levels of grids with different spatial resolution overlaid subsequently, which enables us to trace the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Tomisaka

In a magnetically-dominated model of star formation, we expect to see alignments between the magnetic field orientation of star-forming dense cores and the cloud-scale magnetic field. Pandhi et al. (2023) showed instead, however, that the…

Context: Filaments are common features in molecular clouds and they play a key role in star formation (SF). Studying their life cycle is essential to fully understand the SF process. Aims: We aim to characterise the impact of magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Paolo Suin , Doris Arzoumanian , Annie Zavagno , Patrick Hennebelle

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

We explore the influence of non-axisymmetric modes on the dynamics of the collapsed core of rotating, magnetized high-mass stars in three-dimensional simulations of a rapidly rotating star with an initial mass of $M_{ZAMS}$ = 35 solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Martin Obergaulinger , Miguel-Ángel Aloy

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

When the gas of a magnetized filamentary cloud obeys a polytropic equation of state, gravitational collapse of the cloud is studied using a simplified model. We concentrate on the radial distribution and restrict ourselves to the purely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mohsen Shadmehri

We discuss the lifetimes and evolution of clumps and cores formed as turbulent density fluctuations in nearly isothermal molecular clouds. In the non-magnetic case, clumps are unlikely to reach a hydrostatic state, and instead are expected…

We present an analysis of the relationship between the orientation of magnetic fields and filaments that form in 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of cluster-forming, turbulent molecular cloud clumps. We examine simulated cloud clumps with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz , Helen Kirk

The gravitational collapse of a spherical cloud core is investigated by numerical calculations. The initial conditions of the core lie close to the critical Bonnor-Ebert sphere with a central density of \sim 10^4 cm^{-3} in one model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuri Aikawa , Eric Herbst , Helen Roberts , Paola Caselli

Star formation is usually accompanied by outflow phenomena. There is strong evidence that these outflows and jets are launched from the protostellar disk by magneto-rotational processes. Here, we report on our three dimensional, adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz

The phenomenon of magnetic braking is one of the significant physical effects of the magnetic field in rotating molecular clouds. The physical characteristics of the core can affect on the core rotation rate. and one of the important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Abbas Ebrahimi , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar , Azar Khosravi

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

The magnetic field plays a central role in the formation and evolution of circumstellar disks. The magnetic field connects the rapidly rotating central region with the outer envelope and extracts angular momentum from the central region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-24 Yusuke Tsukamoto