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Throughout the Hubble time, gas makes its way from the intergalactic medium into galaxies fuelling their star formation and promoting their growth. One of the key properties of the accreting gas is its angular momentum, which has profound…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Filippo Fraternali , Gabriele Pezzulli

In order to understand the origin of observed molecular cloud properties, it is critical to understand how clouds interact with their environments during their formation, growth, and collapse. It has been suggested that accretion-driven…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-21 Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen , Christian Baczynski

We present unstratified 3D MHD simulations of an accretion disk with a boundary layer (BL) that have a duration $\sim 1000$ orbital periods at the inner radius of the accretion disk. We find the surprising result that angular momentum piles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Eliot Quataert

The formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk in the collapsing molecular cloud is investigated from the prestellar stage resolving both the molecular cloud core and the protostar itself. In the collapsing cloud, the first adiabatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Disk accretion onto a magnetized star occurs in a variety of astrophysical contexts, from young stars to X-ray pulsars. The magnetohydrodynamic interaction between the stellar field and the accreting matter can have a strong effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Arieh Konigl , Christof Litwin

The molecular component of the Galaxy is comprised of turbulent, magnetized clouds, many of which are self-gravitating and form stars. To understand how these clouds' evolution may depend on their level of turbulence, mean magnetization,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eve C. Ostriker , Charles F. Gammie , James M. Stone

We present the evolution path of the first core in rotating molecular cloud core and the evolution during the second collapse phase using axisymmetric numerical calculations. The structure and evolution of the rotating first core is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuya Saigo , Kohji Tomisaka

Filamentary molecular clouds are recognized as primary sites for the formation of stars. Specifically, regions characterized by the overlapping point of multiple filaments, known as hub regions, often associated with active star formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-19 Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kohji Tomisaka

The flow of a matter, accreting onto a magnetized neutron star, is accompanied by an electric current. The closing of the electric current occurs in the crust of a neutron stars in the polar region across the magnetic field. But the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-01 Ya. N. Istomin , I. A. Semerikov

The concentration of magnetic flux near the poles of rapidly rotating cool stars has been recently proposed as an alternative mechanism to dynamo saturation in order to explain the saturation of angular momentum loss. In this work we study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-25 A. Aibéo , J. M. Ferreira , J. J. G. Lima

Observations of young open clusters show a bimodal distribution of rotation periods that has been difficult to explain with existing stellar spin-down models. Detailed MHD stellar wind simulations have demonstrated that surface magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 C. Garraffo , J. J. Drake , A. Dotter , J. Choi , D. J. Burke , S. P. Moschou , J. D. Alvarado-Gomez , V. L. Kashyap , O. Cohen

We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spin-down for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole magnetic field. Our analysis here is based on our previous 2-D numerical MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asif ud-Doula , Stanley P. Owocki , Richard H. D. Townsend

Major photometric monitoring campaigns of star-forming regions in the past decade have provided rich rotation period distributions of pre-main-sequence stars. The rotation periods span more than an order of magnitude in period, with most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert D. Mathieu

We study numerically the evolution of rotating cloud cores, from the collapse of a magnetically supercritical core to the formation of a protostar and the development of a protostellar disk during the main accretion phase. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. I. Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

We study the effect of angular momentum on the surface density profiles of disc galaxies, using high resolution simulations of major mergers whose remnants have downbending radial density profiles (type II). As described in the previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-06 N. Peschken , E. Athanassoula , S. A. Rodionov

We find significant fluctuations of angular momentum within the convective helium shell of a pre-collapse massive star - a core-collapse supernova progenitor - which may facilitate the formation of accretion disks and jets that can explode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Avishai Gilkis , Noam Soker

We investigate numerically and semi-analytically the collapse of low-mass, rotating prestellar cores. Initially, the cores are in approximate equilibrium with low rotation (the initial ratio of thermal to gravitational energy is $\alpha_0…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Hennebelle , A. Whitworth , S. Cha , S. Goodwin

We examined the gravitational contraction of isothermal molecular cloud cores with slow rotation by means of two-dimensional numerical simulations. Applying a sink-cell method, we followed the evolution of the cloud cores up to the stages…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fumitaka Nakamura

Jet driving and fragmentation process in collapsing primordial cloud are studied using three-dimensional MHD nested grid simulations. Starting from a rotating magnetized spherical cloud with the number density of n=10^3 cm^-3, we follow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Winds from massive stars have velocities of 1000 km/s or more, and produce hot, high pressure gas when they shock. We develop a theory for the evolution of bubbles driven by the collective winds from star clusters early in their lifetimes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Lachlan Lancaster , Eve C. Ostriker , Jeong-Gyu Kim , Chang-Goo Kim