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We numerically model the collapse of magnetic rotating protostellar clouds with mass of 10 $M_{sun}$. The simulations are carried out with the help of 2D MHD code Enlil. The structure of the cloud at the isothermal stage of the collapse is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 N. S. Kargaltseva , S. A. Khaibrakhmanov , A. E. Dudorov , S. N. Zamozdra , A. G. Zhilkin

Properties of candidate stars, forming out of molecular clouds, depend on the ambient conditions of the parent cloud. We present a series of 2D and 3D simulations of fragmentation of molecular clouds in starburst regions as well as clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Hocuk , M. Spaans

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

Methods: Observing the large pc-scale Stokes I mm dust continuum emission with the IRAM 30m telescope and the intermediate-scale (<0.1pc) polarized submm dust emission with the Submillimeter Array toward a sample of 20 high-mass…

With the help of 3D MHD simulations we investigate the collapse and fragmentation of rotating turbulent prestellar core embedded into turbulent medium. The numerical code is based on a high resolution Godunov-type finite-difference scheme.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Alexander E. Dudorov , Sergey N. Zamozdra

Understanding the formation of binary and multiple stellar systems largely comes down to studying the circumstances for the fragmentation of a condensing core during the first stages of the collapse. However, the probability of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Evangelia Ntormousi , Patrick Hennebelle

We examine various physical processes associated with the formation of globular clusters by using the three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Our code includes radiative cooling of gases, star formation, energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naohito Nakasato , Masao Mori , Ken'ichi Nomoto

Abridged. A large fraction of stars are found in binary systems. It is therefore important for our understanding of the star formation process, to investigate the fragmentation of dense molecular cores. We study the influence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Teyssier

This is the first paper about the fragmentation and mass outflow in the molecular cloud by using three-dimensional MHD nested-grid simulations. The binary star formation process is studied paying particular attention to the fragmentation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro N Machida , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We present numerical investigations into the formation of massive stars from centrally condensed turbulent cores. The results of five hydrodynamical simulations are described, following the collapse of the core, fragmentation and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Clare L. Dobbs , Ian A. Bonnell , Paul C. Clark

We present a series of simulations of the fragmentation of a molecular cloud, leading to the formation of a cluster of protostellar cores. The purpose of these simulations is to address a specific numerical problem called artificial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hugo Martel , Neal J. Evans , Paul R. Shapiro

We report the results of a numerical study on the initial formation stages of low-mass protostellar binary systems. We determine the separation of protostellar binaries formed as a function of the initial thermal state by varying the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Riaz , S. Z. Farooqui , S. Vanaverbeke

We investigate the Hierarchical Gravitational Fragmentation scenario through numerical simulations of the prestellar stages of the collapse of a marginally gravitationally unstable isothermal sphere immersed in a strongly gravitationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-26 Raúl Naranjo-Romero , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Robert M. Loughnane

Star formation is intimately linked to the dynamical evolution of molecular clouds. Turbulent fragmentation determines where and when protostellar cores form, and how they contract and grow in mass via accretion from the surrounding cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Klessen

The fragmentation process in collapsing clouds with various metallicities is studied using three-dimensional nested-grid hydrodynamics. Initial clouds are specified by three parameters: cloud metallicity, initial rotation energy and initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Kazuyuki Omukai , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We simulate the early stages of the evolution of turbulent, virialized, high-mass protostellar cores, with primary attention to how cores fragment, and whether they form a small or large number of protostars. Our simulations use the Orion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark R. Krumholz , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

We present a simple model of binary star formation based on the assumption that rotating prestellar cores collapse to form rings and these rings then fragment into protostars. We assume that each ring spawns a small number (N <= 6) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Hubber , A. P. Whitworth

The fragmentation of molecular cloud cores a factor of 1.1 denser than the critical Bonnor-Ebert sphere is examined though three-dimensional numerical simulations. A nested grid is employed to resolve fine structure down to 1 AU while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa

We examine the conditions under which binary and multiple stars may form out of turbulent molecular cloud cores using high resolution 3-D, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynamics (Truelove et al., 1997, 1998; Klein, 1999). We argue…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I Klein , R. T. Fisher , C. F. McKee

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