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astro-ph2002★ 25 cited
Fragmentation of Magnetically Subcritical Clouds into Multiple Supercritical Cores and the Formation of Small Stellar Groups
Zhi-Yun Li, Fumitaka Nakamura
Isolated low-mass stars are formed in dense cores of molecular clouds. In the standard picture, the cores are envisioned to condense out of strongly magnetized clouds through ambip…
astro-ph2002★ 134 cited
The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Primordial Galaxies
Fumitaka Nakamura, Masayuki Umemura
In the context of star formation through fragmentation of an extremely metal-deficient protogalactic cloud, the gravitational collapse of filamentary gas clouds is explored with 1D…
astro-ph2002★ 16 cited
Nonaxisymmetric Evolution of Magnetically Subcritical Clouds: Bar Growth, Core Elongation, and Binary Formation
Fumitaka Nakamura, Zhi-Yun Li
We have begun a systematic numerical study of the nonlinear growth of nonaxisymmetric perturbations during the ambipolar diffusion-driven evolution of initially magnetically subcri…