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 …

Observational constraints on stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies

MLM Collins, JI Read - Nature astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Feedback to the interstellar medium from ionizing radiation, stellar winds and supernovae is
central to regulating star formation in galaxies. Owing to their low mass (< 109 solar …

The star formation rate of turbulent magnetized clouds: comparing theory, simulations, and observations

C Federrath, RS Klessen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The role of turbulence and magnetic fields is studied for star formation in molecular clouds.
We derive and compare six theoretical models for the star formation rate (SFR)—the …

On the star formation efficiency of turbulent magnetized clouds

C Federrath, RS Klessen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the star formation efficiency (SFE) in simulations and observations of turbulent,
magnetized, molecular clouds. We find that the probability density functions (PDFs) of the …

The resolved properties of extragalactic giant molecular clouds

AD Bolatto, AK Leroy, E Rosolowsky… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved
size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and mass-luminosity relations of GMCs …

Accretion-driven turbulence as universal process: galaxies, molecular clouds, and protostellar disks

RS Klessen, P Hennebelle - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 - aanda.org
Context. Even though turbulent motions are found everywhere in astrophysical systems, the
origin of this turbulence is poorly understood. When cosmic structures form, they grow in …

What is driving the H i velocity dispersion?

D Tamburro, HW Rix, AK Leroy… - The Astronomical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore what dominant physical mechanism sets the kinetic energy contained in neutral,
atomic (H i) gas. Both supernova (SN) explosions and magnetorotational instability (MRI) …

On the density distribution in star-forming interstellar clouds

AG Kritsuk, ML Norman, RP Wagner - Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
We use deep adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations of isothermal self-gravitating
supersonic turbulence to study the imprints of gravity on the mass density distribution in …

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 supernova rate-velocity dispersion relation in the interstellar medium

S Dib, E Bell, A Burkert - The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the relationship between the velocity dispersion of the gas and the
supernova (SN) rate and feedback efficiency with three-dimensional numerical simulations …