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This study focuses on stars with masses above the Kraft break in the \textit{Kepler} field. Their rotational angular momenta are essentially the same as those at the zero-age main sequence. The angular momentum dissipation experienced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Yu-Fu Shen , Yan Xu , Yi-Bo Wang , Xiu-Lin Huang , Xing-Xing Hu , Qi Yuan

The effect of misalignment between the magnetic field $\magB$ and the angular momentum $\Jang$ of molecular cloud cores on the angular momentum evolution during the gravitational collapse is investigated by ideal and non-ideal MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Y. Tsukamoto , S. Okuzumi , K. Iwasaki , M. N. Machida , S. Inutsuka

After the initial stage of fast expanding of the hot Universe comes epoch of temperature fall and subsequent formation of dense clouds of hydrogen. Due to process of accretion some of this clouds became compact objects. Initially accretion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Zlatan Dimitrov Dimitrov

We investigate the formation of circumstellar disks and outflows subsequent to the collapse of molecular cloud cores with the magnetic field and turbulence. Numerical simulations are performed by using an adaptive mesh refinement to follow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Star formation in magnetically subcritical clouds is investigated using a three-dimensional non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics simulation. Since rapid cloud collapse is suppressed until the magnetic flux is sufficiently removed from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Masahiro N. Machida , Koki Higuchi , Satoshi Okuzumi

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

The collapse of the magnetic rotating protostellar cloud with mass of $10\,M_{\odot}$ is numerically studied. The initial ratios of the thermal, magnetic, and rotational energies of the cloud to the modulus of its gravitational energy are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Natalya S. Kargaltseva , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov , Alexander E. Dudorov , Andrey G. Zhilkin

The evolution of rotating stars with zero-age main sequence (ZAMS) masses in the range 8 to 25 M_sun is followed through all stages of stable evolution. The initial angular momentum is chosen such that the star's equatorial rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Heger , N. Langer , S. E. Woosley

Magnetic flux redistribution lies at the heart of the problem of star formation in dense cores of molecular clouds that are magnetized to a realistic level. If all of the magnetic flux of a typical core were to be dragged into the central…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Hsien Shang , Bo Zhao

[abridged] Understanding how the infalling gas redistribute most of its initial angular momentum inherited from prestellar cores before reaching the stellar embryo is a key question. Disk formation has been naturally considered as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 M. Gaudel , A. J. Maury , A. Belloche , S. Maret , Ph. André , P. Hennebelle , M. Galametz , L. Testi , S. Cabrit , P. Palmeirim , B. Ladjelate , C. Codella , L. Podio

We consider the spin angular momentum evolution of the accreting components of Algol-type binary stars. In wider Algols the accretion is through a disc so that the accreted material can transfer enough angular momentum to the gainer that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Dervişoğlu , Christopher A. Tout , C. İbanoğlu

The origin of disks surrounding young stars has direct implications for our understanding of the formation of planetary systems. In the interstellar clouds from which star form, angular momentum is regulated by magnetic fields, preventing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde

A prerequisite for the formation of stars and planetary systems is that angular momentum is transported in some way from the inner regions of the accretion disc. Tidal effects may play an important part in this angular momentum transport.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pfalzner

The internal rotation and magnetism of evolved massive stars are considered in response to i) the inward pumping of angular momentum through deep and slowly rotating convective layers; and ii) the winding up of a helical magnetic field in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yevgeni Kissin , Christopher Thompson

Star formation proceeds via the collapse of a molecular cloud core over multiple dynamical timescales. Turbulence within cores results in a spatially non-uniform angular momentum of the cloud, causing a stochastic variation in orientation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher Spalding , Konstantin Batygin , Fred C. Adams

Star formation in our Galaxy occurs in molecular clouds that are self-gravitating, highly turbulent, and magnetized. We study the conditions under which cloud cores inherit large-scale magnetic field morphologies and how the field is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Chris McKee , Volker Springel

In the present-day universe, magnetic fields play such essential roles in star formation as angular momentum transport and outflow driving, which control circumstellar disc formation/fragmentation and also the star formation efficiency.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Kenji Eric Sadanari , Kazuyuki Omukai , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kengo Tomida

The way angular momentum is built up in stars during their formation process may have an impact on their further evolution. In the frame of the cold disc accretion scenario, we study for the first time how angular momentum builds up inside…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Haemmerlé , P. Eggenberger , G. Meynet , A. Maeder , C. Charbonnel

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 discuss the effects of the magnetic field observed in molecular clouds on the process of star formation, concentrating on the phase of gravitational collapse of low-mass dense cores, cradles of sunlike stars. We summarize recent analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susana Lizano , Daniele Galli