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We performed numerical simulations of supersonic isothermal turbulence driven by mostly compressive large-scale forcing, using both a static grid and adaptive mesh refinement with an effective resolution N=768^3. After a transient phase…

We derive an analytic prediction for the star formation rate in environments ranging from normal galactic disks to starbursts and ULIRGs in terms of the observables of those systems. Our calculation is based on three premises: (1) star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher F. McKee

We investigate the power spectra of outflow-driven turbulence through high-resolution three-dimensional isothermal numerical simulations where the turbulence is driven locally in real-space by a simple spherical outflow model. The resulting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Anthony Moraghan , Jongsoo Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon

We summarize the current status of the turbulent model of star formation in turbulent molecular clouds. In this model, clouds, clumps and cores form a hierarchy of nested density fluctuations caused by the turbulence, and either collapse or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Outflows from young stellar objects have been identified as a possible source of turbulence in molecular clouds. To investigate the relationship between outflows, cloud dynamics and turbulence, we compare the kinematics of the molecular gas…

The evolution of collapsing clouds embedded in different star-forming environments is investigated using three-dimensional non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering different cloud metallicities ($Z/\thinspace Z_\odot$ = 0,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Koki Higuchi , Masahiro N. Machida , Hajime Susa

Recently, Goldman (2024) obtained evidence for a large scale compressible, Burgers turbulence in the ism of a gravitationally lensed, star-forming galaxy at $z = 1.87$, with an outflowing wind. The turbulent timescale on the largest spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Itzhak Goldman

Context. Due to the presence of magnetic fields, protostellar jets/outflows are a natural consequence of accretion onto protostars. They are expected to play an important role for star and protoplanetary disk formation. Aims. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 U. Lebreuilly , P. Hennebelle , A. Maury , M. González , A. Traficante , R. Klessen , L. Testi , S. Molinari

(Abridged) Most massive protostars exhibit bipolar outflows. Nonetheless, there is no consensus regarding the mechanism at the origin of these outflows, nor on the cause of the less-frequently observed monopolar outflows. We aim to identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 R. Mignon-Risse , M. González , B. Commerçon

The giant, star forming clumps in gas-rich, high redshift disks are commonly assumed to form due to gravitational instabilities, in which protoclumps have a Toomre-$Q$ parameter less than unity. However, some cosmological simulations show…

We present a series of numerical studies of the interaction of colliding radiative, hydrodynamic young stellar outflows. We study the effect of the collision impact parameter on the acceleration of ambient material and the degree to which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew J. Cunningham , Adam Frank , Eric G. Blackman

With the aim of understanding the role of outflows in star formation, we performed a statistical study of the physical parameters of outflows in eleven massive protoclusters associated with ultra-compact HII regions. A total of 106 outflow…

Supersonic isothermal turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. This work presents high-resolution AREPO hydrodynamical simulations of isolated shocks moving through supersonic turbulence to study the development and evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael M. Foley , Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Alyssa Goodman

In the multi-scale view of the star formation process the material flows from large molecular clouds down to clumps and cores. In this paradigm it is still unclear if it is gravity or turbulence that drives the observed supersonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 A. Traficante , G. A. Fuller , A. Duarte-Cabral , D. Elia , M. H. Heyer , S. Molinari , N. Peretto , E. Schisano

A fundamental issue in star formation is understanding the precise mechanisms leading to the formation of prestellar cores, and their subsequent gravitationally unstable evolution. To address this question, we carefully construct a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-13 Sanghyuk Moon , Eve C. Ostriker

Supersonic turbulence is a large reservoir of suprathermal energy in the interstellar medium. Its dissipation, because it is intermittent in space and time, can deeply modify the chemistry of the gas. We further explore a hybrid method to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin Godard , Edith Falgarone , Guillaume Pineau Des Forêts

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

Super-sonic turbulence fragments molecular clouds (MC) into a very complex density field with density contrasts of several orders of magnitude. A fraction of the gas is locked into dense and gravitationally bound cores, which collapse as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padoan , AAke Nordlund , Ornolfur Einar Rognvaldsson , Alyssa Goodman

During star cluster formation, ongoing mass accretion is resisted by stellar feedback in the form of protostellar outflows from the low-mass stars and photo-ionization and radiation pressure feedback from the massive stars. We model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Christopher D. Matzner , Peter H. Jumper

We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover a wide range of scales (from kpc to sub-parsec), the dimension of the most dissipative structures and the injection scale of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt