Zooming in on individual star formation: low-and high-mass stars

AL Rosen, SSR Offner, SI Sadavoy, A Bhandare… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Star formation is a multi-scale, multi-physics problem ranging from the size scale of
molecular clouds (∼ 10 ∼10 s pc) down to the size scales of dense prestellar cores (∼ 0.1 …

The role of magnetic fields in the formation of protostellar discs

J Wurster, ZY Li - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The formation of a protostellar disc is a natural outcome during the star formation process.
As gas in a molecular cloud core collapses under self-gravity, the angular momentum of the …

What determines the formation and characteristics of protoplanetary discs?

P Hennebelle, B Commerçon, YN Lee… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Planets form in protoplanetary discs. Their masses, distribution, and orbits
sensitively depend on the structure of the protoplanetary discs. However, what sets the initial …

Accretion Flows or Outflow Cavities? Uncovering the Gas Dynamics around Lupus 3-MMS

TJ Thieme, SP Lai, SJ Lin, PI Cheong… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding how material accretes onto the rotationally supported disk from the
surrounding envelope of gas and dust in the youngest protostellar systems is important for …

Co-evolution of dust grains and protoplanetary disks

Y Tsukamoto, MN Machida… - Publications of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We propose a new evolutionary process for protoplanetary disks, the co-evolution of dust
grains and protoplanetary disks, revealed by dust–gas two-fluid non-ideal …

The impact of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic processes on discs, outflows, counter-rotation, and magnetic walls during the early stages of star formation

J Wurster, MR Bate, IA Bonnell - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes–namely Ohmic resistivity, ambipolar
diffusion, and the Hall effect–modify the early stages of the star formation process and the …

Cosmic ray ionization rate versus dust fraction: Which plays a crucial role in the early evolution of the circumstellar disc?

Y Kobayashi, D Takaishi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the formation and early evolution of young stellar objects (YSOs) using three-
dimensional non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the effect of …

The effect of misalignment between the rotation Axis and magnetic field on the circumstellar disk

S Hirano, Y Tsukamoto, S Basu… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The formation of circumstellar disks is investigated using three-dimensional resistive
magnetohydrodynamic simulations in which the initial prestellar cloud has a misaligned …

Magnetohydrodynamical modeling of star-disk formation: from isolated spherical collapse towards incorporation of external dynamics

M Kuffmeier - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The formation of protostars and their disks has been understood as the result of the
gravitational collapse phase of an accumulation of dense gas that determines the mass …

Ionization: a possible explanation for the difference of mean disk sizes in star-forming regions

M Kuffmeier, B Zhao, P Caselli - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Surveys of protoplanetary disks in star-forming regions of similar age revealed
significant variations in average disk mass in some regions. For instance, disks in the Orion …