The origin of a universal filament width in molecular clouds

FD Priestley, AP Whitworth - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Filamentary structures identified in far-infrared observations of molecular clouds are typically
found to have full widths at half-maximum. However, the physical explanation for this …

Jeans instability in nonideal MHD plasma clouds with geometric curvature effects

D Kalita, PK Karmakar - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A generalized nonideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model to explore the excitation
dynamics of the gravitational (Jeans) instability in a spherical complex molecular cloud is …

General polytropic magnetohydrodynamic cylinder under self-gravity

YQ Lou, HR Xing - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Based on general polytropic (GP) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), we offer a self-similar
dynamic formalism for a magnetized, infinitely long, axially uniform cylinder of axisymmetry …

Dynamical origin of non-thermal states in galactic filaments

P Di Cintio, S Gupta, L Casetti - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Observations strongly suggest that filaments in galactic molecular clouds are in a non-
thermal state. As a simple model of a filament, we study a two-dimensional system of self …

Thermal Effects of Ambipolar Diffusion during the Gravitational Collapse of a Radiative Cooling Filament

M Gholipour - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, we consider the effects of ambipolar diffusion during the gravitational collapse
of a radiative cooling filamentary molecular cloud. Two separate configurations of magnetic …

General polytropic self-gravitating cylinder free-fall and accreting mass string with a chain of collapsed objects

YQ Lou, XY Hu - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present a theoretical model framework for general polytropic (GP) hydrodynamic
cylinder under self-gravity of infinite length with axial uniformity and axisymmetry. For self …

General polytropic dynamic cylinder under self-gravity

YQ Lou - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We explore self-similar hydrodynamics of general polytropic (GP) and isothermal cylinders
of infinite length with axial uniformity and axisymmetry under self-gravity. Specific entropy …

Gravitational collapse of a filamentary cloud with ambipolar diffusion

M Gholipour - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Recently, the self-similar collapse of the polytropic cylinders in the ideal MHD regime has
been targeted by many theoretical works. However, it has not yet been fully understood in …

Self-similar dynamics of a magnetized polytropic gas

WG Wang, YQ Lou - Astrophysics and Space Science, 2007 - Springer
In broad astrophysical contexts of large-scale gravitational collapses and outflows and as a
basis for various further astrophysical applications, we formulate and investigate a …

Dynamical behavior of ambipolar diffusion during the gravitational collapse of a radiative cooling filamentary cloud

M Gholipour - New Astronomy, 2024 - Elsevier
This work aims to investigate the dynamic behavior of ambipolar diffusion during the
gravitational collapse of a filamentary molecular cloud undergoing radiative cooling. The …