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The relation between the mass accretion rate onto the circumstellar disc and the rate of mass ejection by magnetically driven winds is investigated using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Using a spherical cloud core with…

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We discuss a mechanism by which a giant star can expel its envelope in an outburst, leaving its core exposed. The outburst is powered by rotational kinetic energy of the core, transferred to the envelope via the twisting of magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Matt , Adam Frank , Eric Blackman

We examine, parametrically, the interaction between the magnetosphere of a rotating, young stellar object (YSO) and a circumstellar accretion disk using 2.5-D (cylindrically symmetric) numerical magnetoydrodynamic simulations. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean Matt , Anthony Goodson , Robert Winglee , Karl-Heinz Bohm

We present the results of axisymmetric simulations of MRI-driven accretion onto a rapidly rotating, magnetized star accreting in the propeller regime. The stellar magnetosphere corotates with the star, forming a centrifugal barrier at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Galina V. Ustyugova , Alexander V. Koldoba , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Non-axisymmetric features are found in the core collapse of a rapidly rotating massive star, which might have important implications for magnetic field amplification and production of a bipolar outflow that can explode the star, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-16 Avishai Gilkis

During common envelope evolution, an initially weak magnetic field may undergo amplification by interacting with spiral density waves and turbulence generated in the stellar envelope by the inspiralling companion. Using 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Damien Gagnier , Ondrej Pejcha

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

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

The evolution of an initially stellar dipole type magnetosphere interacting with an accretion disk is investigated numerically using the ideal MHD ZEUS-3D code in the 2D-axisymmetry option. The simulations last several thousands of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Fendt , Detlef Elstner

We present two dimensional cylindrically symmetric hydrodynamic simulations and synthetic emission maps of a stellar wind propagating into an infalling, rotating environment. The resulting outflow morphology, collimation and stability…

Solar eruptions are explosive release of coronal magnetic field energy as manifested in solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Observations have shown that the core of eruption-productive regions are often a sheared magnetic arcade, i.e.,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xinkai Bian , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Xinyi Wang

Solar eruptions are the leading driver of space weather, and it is vital for space weather forecast to understand in what conditions the solar eruptions can be produced and how they are initiated. The rotation of sunspots around their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-15 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Xinkai Bian , Peng Zou , Aiying Duan , Xiaoli Yan , Qiang Hu , Wen He , Xinyi Wang , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Eruptive flares are sudden releases of magnetic energy that involve many phenomena, several of which can be explained by the standard 2D flare model and its realizations in three-dimensions. We analyze a three-dimensional…

We explore a possible scenario of the explosion as a result of core collapses of rotating massive stars that leave a black hole by performing a radiation-viscous-hydrodynamics simulation in numerical relativity. We take moderately and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Shinya Wanajo

We present results of new three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of rapidly rotating strongly magnetized core collapse. These simulations are the first of their kind and include a microphysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-18 P. Mösta , S. Richers , C. D. Ott , R. Haas , A. L. Piro , K. Boydstun , E. Abdikamalov , C. Reisswig , E. Schnetter

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

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of core-collapse supernovae have become increasingly mature and important in recent years. Magnetic fields take center stage in scenarios for explaining hypernova explosions, but are now also considered in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 Bernhard Müller

We present an attempt to reach realistic turbulent regime in direct numerical simulations of the geodynamo. We rely on a sequence of three convection-driven simulations in a rapidly rotating spherical shell. The most extreme case reaches…

We study the formation of coronal jets through numerical simulation of the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux rope into a pre-existing open magnetic field. Reconnection inside the emerging flux rope in addition to that between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fang Fang , Yuhong Fan , Scott W. McIntosh

The impact of the magnetic field on postbounce supernova dynamics of non-rotating stellar cores is studied by performing three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spectral neutrino transport. The explodability of strongly and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-19 Jin Matsumoto , Yuta Asahina , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi