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Theoretical studies of collapsing clouds have found that even a relatively weak magnetic field (B) may prevent the formation of disks and their fragmentation. However, most previous studies have been limited to cases where B and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Marc Joos , Patrick Hennebelle , Andrea Ciardi

We study the self-similar collapse of an isothermal magnetized rotating cloud in the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) regime. In the limit of small distance from the accreting protostar we find an analytic solution that corresponds to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Galli , S. Lizano , F. H. Shu , A. Allen

We present self-similar solutions that describe the gravitational collapse of rotating, isothermal, magnetic molecular-cloud cores, relevant to the formation of rotationally supported protostellar disks. This work focuses on the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Arieh Konigl

We utilize the more than 100 gravitationally-bound dense cores formed in our three-dimensional, turbulent MHD simulations reported in Chen & Ostriker (2015) to analyze structural, kinematic, and magnetic properties of prestellar cores. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Che-Yu Chen , Eve C. Ostriker

Magnetic fields play an important role in star formation by regulating the removal of angular momentum from collapsing molecular cloud cores. Hall diffusion is known to be important to the magnetic field behaviour at many of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-12 Catherine Braiding

We study the structure and evolution of the very early protostellar disk (``protodisk'') just after protostar formation, where disk self-gravity dominates and the stellar contribution is dynamically minor. The disk redistributes angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Majd Noel , Rahul Khanna , Shahram Abbassi , Sami Dib , Shantanu Basu

Magnetic fields are often invoked as playing a primary role in star formation and in the formation of high-mass stars. We investigate the effect of magnetic fields on the formation of high-mass cores using the 3-dimensional smoothed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-04 Katerina Sophia Klos , Ian A. Bonnell , Rowan J. Smith

A physical model and two-dimensional numerical method for computing the evolution and spectra of protostellar clouds are described. The physical model is based on a system of magneto-gasdynamical equations, including ohmic and ambipolar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. G. Zhilkin , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , S. N. Zamozdra

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 investigate the formation and evolution of isothermal collapse nonuniformity for rotating magnetic interstellar clouds. The initial and boundary conditions correspond to the statement of the problem of homogeneous cloud contraction from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Dudorov , A. G. Zhilkin , N. Y. Zhilkina

The stellar core formation and high speed jets driven by the formed core are studied by using three-dimensional resistive MHD nested grid simulations. Starting with a Bonnor-Ebert isothermal cloud rotating in a uniform magnetic field, we…

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

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

We explore the effects of magnetic energy dissipation on the formation of the first stars. For this purpose, we follow the evolution of primordial chemistry in the presence of magnetic fields in the post-recombination universe until the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Daniele Galli , Simon C. O. Glover , Robi Banerjee , Francesco Palla , Raffaella Schneider , Ralf S. Klessen

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 the strength of seed magnetic flux of accretion disk surrounding the PopIII stars. The magnetic field in accretion disk might play an important role in the transport of angular momentum because of the turbulence induced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideki Maki , Hajime Susa

We explore the origin of the rotation rates of massive stars. Contrary to their low-mass siblings, most massive stars do not have detectable magnetic fields, so that star-disk interaction models used for the formation of rotating low-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 André Oliva , Facundo D. Moyano , Luca Sciarini , Sylvia Ekström , Patrick Eggenberger , Georges Meynet

In star formation, magnetic fields act as a cosmic angular momentum extractor that increases mass accretion rates onto protostars and in the process, creates spectacular outflows. However, recently it has been argued that this magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Dennis F. Duffin , Ralph E. Pudritz

Subsequent to Paper I, the evolution and fragmentation of a rotating magnetized cloud are studied with use of three-dimensional MHD nested-grid simulations. After the isothermal runaway collapse, an adiabatic gas forms a protostellar first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro N Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa , Kohji Tomisaka

Strong magnetic fields play a crucial role in the removal of angular momentum from collapsing clouds and protostellar discs and are necessary for the formation of disc winds as well as jets from the inner disc and indeed, strong large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan Braithwaite

Current models of magnetars require extremely strong magnetic fields to explain their observed quiescent and bursting emission, implying that the field strength within the star's outer crust is orders of magnitude larger than the dipole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Toby Wood , Rainer Hollerbach