Protostellar collapse and fragmentation using an MHD GADGET

Bürzle, Florian, Clark, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-043X, Stasyszyn, Federico, Greif, Thomas, Dolag, Klaus, Klessen, Ralf S. and Nielaba, Peter 2011. Protostellar collapse and fragmentation using an MHD GADGET. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 412 (1) , pp. 171-186. 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17896.x

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Abstract

Although the influence of magnetic fields is regarded as vital in the star formation process, only a few magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations have been performed on this subject within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method. This is largely due to the unsatisfactory treatment of non-vanishing divergence of the magnetic field. Recently smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) simulations based on Euler potentials have proven to be successful in treating MHD collapse and fragmentation problems, however these methods are known to have some intrinsic difficulties. We have performed SPMHD simulations based on a traditional approach evolving the magnetic field itself using the induction equation. To account for the numerical divergence, we have chosen an approach that subtracts the effects of numerical divergence from the force equation, and additionally we employ artificial magnetic dissipation as a regularization scheme. We apply this realization of SPMHD to a widely known setup, a variation of the ‘Boss and Bodenheimer standard isothermal test case’, to study the impact of the magnetic fields on collapse and fragmentation. In our simulations, we concentrate on setups, where the initial magnetic field is parallel to the rotation axis. We examine different field strengths and compare our results to other findings reported in the literature. We are able to confirm specific results found elsewhere, namely the delayed onset of star formation for strong fields, accompanied by the tendency to form only single stars. We also find that the ‘magnetic cushioning effect’, where the magnetic field is wound up to form a ‘cushion’ between the binary, aids binary fragmentation in a case where previously only formation of a single protostar was expected.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	magnetic fields; MHD; stars: formation; ISM: clouds; ISM: magnetic fields
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0035-8711
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59838

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