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(Abridged) We present a series of decaying turbulence simulations that represent a cluster-forming clump within a molecular cloud, investigating the role of magnetic fields on the formation of potential star-forming cores. We present an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 David A. Tilley , Ralph E. Pudritz

We describe the results of a sequence of simulations of gravitational collapse in a turbulent magnetized region. The parameters are chosen to be representative of molecular cloud material. We find that several protostellar cores and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Balsara , D. Ward-Thompson , R. M. Crutcher

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 present results from the first three-dimensional calculations ever to follow the collapse of a molecular cloud core (~ 10^{-18} g cm^{-3}) to stellar densities (> 0.01 g cm^{-3}). The calculations resolve structures over 7 orders of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthew R. Bate

We presents results from Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics simulations of collapsing molecular cloud cores, and dynamo amplification of the magnetic field in the presence of Mach 10 magnetised turbulence. Our star formation simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath , Matthew R. Bate

Using resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations, the propagation of protostellar jets, the formation of circumstellar discs and the configuration of magnetic fields are investigated from the prestellar cloud phase until $\sim$500 yr after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Masahiro N. Machida , Shingo Hirano , Hideyuki Kitta

A non-ideal MHD collapse calculation employing the axisymmetric thin-disk approximation is used to resolve cloud core collapse down to the scales of the second (stellar) core. Rotation and a magnetic braking torque are included in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-19 Shantanu Basu , Wolf B. Dapp , Matthew W. Kunz

We formulate the problem of the formation and subsequent evolution of fragments (or cores) in magnetically-supported, self-gravitating molecular clouds in two spatial dimensions. The six-fluid (neutrals, electrons, molecular and atomic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Matthew W. Kunz , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

We study the effects of the magnetic fields on the formation of massive, self-gravitationally bound cores (MBCs) in high-speed cloud-cloud collisions (CCCs). Extending our previous work (Sakre et al. 2021), we perform magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-24 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto , Rei Enokiya , Yasuo Fukui , Takashi Hosokawa

We present results from fully general relativistic (GR), three-dimensional (3D), neutrino-radiation magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of stellar core collapse of a 20 M$_\odot$ star with spectral neutrino transport. Our focus is to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Shota Shibagaki , Takami Kuroda , Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Tobias Fischer

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

The formation of stars is governed by the intricate interplay of nonideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects, gravity, and turbulence. Computational challenges have hindered a comprehensive 3D exploration of this interplay, posing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 Aris Tritsis

We perform a three-dimensional nested-grid radiation magneto-hydrodynamics (RMHD) simulation with self-gravity to study the early phase of the low-mass star formation process from a rotating molecular cloud core to a first adiabatic core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-08 Kengo Tomida , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Ken Ohsuga , Masahiro N. Machida , Kazuya Saigo

We employ the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation including ambipolar diffusion to study the gravitationally-driven fragmentation of subcritical molecular clouds, in which the gravitational fragmentation is stabilized as long…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Takahiro Kudoh , Shantanu Basu

Building on our previous hydrodynamic study of the angular momenta of cloud cores formed during gravitational collapse of star-forming molecular gas in our previous work, we now examine core properties assuming ideal magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Aleksandra Kuznetsova , Lee Hartmann , Fabian Heitsch

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 simulate the formation and collapse of prestellar cores at few-AU resolution in a set of radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) using the grid-based code RAMSES-RT. We adopt, for the first time to our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Chong-Chong He , Massimo Ricotti

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

We performed sub-parsec ($\sim$ 0.014 pc) scale simulations of cloud-cloud collisions of two idealized turbulent molecular clouds (MCs) with different masses in the range of $0.76 - 2.67 \times 10^4$M$_{\odot}$ and with collision speeds of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-15 Ken Takahira , Kazuhiro Shima , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Asao Habe

The evolution of an initially stellar dipole type magnetosphere interacting with an accretion disk is investigated using numerical ideal MHD simulations. The simulations follow several 1000 Keplerian periods of the inner disk. The initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ch. Fendt