The role of magnetic fields in setting the star formation rate and the initial mass function

MR Krumholz, C Federrath - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high
enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the …

Diagnosing Turbulence in the Neutral and Molecular Interstellar Medium of Galaxies

B Burkhart - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a crucial component of the current paradigms of
star formation, dynamo theory, particle transport, magnetic reconnection, and evolution of …

The life and times of giant molecular clouds

M Chevance, MR Krumholz, AF McLeod… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the sites of star formation and stellar feedback in
galaxies. Their properties set the initial conditions for star formation and their lifecycles …

Understanding star formation in molecular clouds-IV. Column density PDFs from quiescent to massive molecular clouds

N Schneider, V Ossenkopf-Okada, S Clarke… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Probability distribution functions of the total hydrogen column density (N-PDFs) are a
valuable tool for distinguishing between the various processes (turbulence, gravity, radiative …

The star formation rate in the gravoturbulent interstellar medium

B Burkhart - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Stars form in supersonic turbulent molecular clouds that are self-gravitating. We present an
analytic determination of the star formation rate (SFR) in a gravoturbulent medium based on …

ENZO: An adaptive mesh refinement code for astrophysics (version 2.6)

C Brummel-Smith, G Bryan, I Butsky… - Journal of Open …, 2019 - joss.theoj.org
Summary Enzo (Enzo Developers, 2019a) is a block-structured adaptive mesh refinement
code that is widely used to simulate astrophysical fluid flows (primarily, but not exclusively …

Moving-mesh Simulations of Star-forming Cores in Magneto-gravo-turbulence

P Mocz, B Burkhart, L Hernquist… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

A two-component probability distribution function describes the mid-IR emission from the disks of star-forming galaxies

D Pathak, AK Leroy, TA Thompson… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution JWST-MIRI images of nearby spiral galaxies reveal emission with complex
substructures that trace dust heated both by massive young stars and the diffuse interstellar …

Understanding star formation in molecular clouds-II. Signatures of gravitational collapse of IRDCs

N Schneider, T Csengeri, RS Klessen… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
We analyse column density and temperature maps derived from Herschel dust continuum
observations of a sample of prominent, massive infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) ie G11. 11 …

The effects of magnetic fields and outflow feedback on the shape and evolution of the density probability distribution function in turbulent star-forming clouds

SM Appel, B Burkhart, VA Semenov… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a suite of 3D hydrodynamical simulations of star-forming molecular clouds, we
investigate how the density probability distribution function (PDF) changes when including …