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We study effect of magnetic field on massive dense core formation in colliding unequal molecular clouds by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations with sub-parsec resolution (0.015 pc) that can resolve the molecular cores. Initial clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto

Hydrodynamical calculations in three space dimensions of the collapse of an isothermal, centrally condensed, rotating 1 M\sol protostellar cloud are presented. A numerical algorithm involving nested subgrids is used to resolve the region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andi Burkert , Peter Bodenheimer

We perform a comparative numerical hydrodynamics study of embedded protostellar disks formed as a result of the gravitational collapse of cloud cores of distinct mass (M_cl=0.2--1.7 M_sun) and ratio of rotational to gravitational energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduard I. Vorobyov

We numerically investigate dynamical and chemical properties of star clusters (open and globular clusters, and ``super star clusters'', SSC) formed in interacting/merging galaxies. The investigation is two-fold: (1) large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenji Bekki

Massive clumps tend to fragment into clusters of cores and condensations, some of which form high-mass stars. In this work, we study the structure of massive clumps at different scales, analyze the fragmentation process, and investigate the…

We utilize magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to develop a numerical model for GMC-GMC collisions between nearly magnetically critical clouds. The goal is to determine if, and under what circumstances, cloud collisions can cause…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Benjamin Wu , Sven Van Loo , Jonathan C. Tan , Simon Bruderer

We investigate the formation of stars within giant molecular clouds (GMCs) evolving in environments of different global magnetic field strength and large-scale dynamics. Building upon a series of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Duncan Christie , Fumitaka Nakamura

Dense core collisions, previously regarded as minor in star formation, are proposed to play a significant role in structure formation around protostellar envelopes and binary formation. Using archival data of nearby star-forming regions, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-20 Yuta Yano , Fumitaka Nakamura , Shinichi W. Kinoshita

Collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) have been proposed as a mechanism to trigger massive star and star cluster formation. To investigate the astrochemical signatures of such collisions, we carry out 3D magnetohydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-24 Chia-Jung Hsu , Jonathan C. Tan , Jonathan Holdship , Duo , Xu , Serena Viti , Benjamin Wu , Brandt Gaches

An interaction between a star-disc system and another star will perturb the disc, possibly resulting in a significant modification of the disc structure and its properties. It is still unclear if such an encounter can trigger fragmentation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

We investigate collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) as potential generators of their internal turbulence. Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of self-gravitating, magnetized, turbulent, GMCs, we compare kinematic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Benjamin Wu , Jonathan C. Tan , Fumitaka Nakamura , Duncan Christie , Qi Li

We present the results of SPH simulations in which two clouds, each having mass $M_{_{\rm{o}}}\!=\!500\,{\rm M}_{_\odot}$ and radius $R_{_{\rm{o}}}\!=\!2\,{\rm pc}$, collide head-on at relative velocities of $\Delta v_{_{\rm{o}}}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-18 S. K. Balfour , A. P. Whitworth , D. A. Hubber , S. E. Jaffa

In recent years, it has been demonstrated that massive stars see their infant circumstellar medium shaped into a large, irradiated, gravitationally unstable accretion disc during their early formation phase. Such discs constitute the gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 D. M. -A. Meyer , E. Vorobyov

We present numerical simulations of the passage of clumpy gas through a galactic spiral shock and the subsequent formation of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). The spiral shock forms dense clouds while dissipating kinetic energy, producing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. A. Bonnell , C. L. Dobbs , T. R. Robitaille , J. E. Pringle

A supersonic cloud-cloud collision produces a shock-compressed layer which leads to formation of high-mass stars via gravitational instability. We carried out a detailed analysis of the layer by using the numerical simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Yasuo Fukui , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Takahiro Hayakawa , Kazufumi Torii

The inner parsec of our Galaxy contains tens of Wolf-Rayet stars whose powerful outflows are constantly interacting while filling the region with hot, diffuse plasma. Theoretical models have shown that, in some cases, the collision of…

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

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 results of study of the gravitational fragmentation in the interstellar medium (ISM) by clump-clump collisions are presented. We suggest, that collision of clumps, that are subparts of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMC) may be on of the basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 S. B. Vinogradov , P. Berczik

We investigate, by means of numerical simulations, the phenomenology of star formation triggered by low-velocity collisions between low-mass molecular clumps. The simulations are performed using an SPH code which satisfies the Jeans…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Kitsionas , A. P. Whitworth