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most citedMolecular Cloud Evolution IV: Magnetic Fields, Ambipolar Diffusion, and the Star Formation Efficiency

159 citations · 527 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.SR2011★ 2 cited

The long-term evolution of warped, magnetised discs, and precessing outflows in collapsing pre-stellar cores

Dennis F. Duffin, Ralph E. Pudritz, Daniel Seifried +2

(abridged) The nature of early Class 0/I protostellar discs is not clearly understood. Early protostellar discs are needed to drive molecular outflows and jets observed in star for…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 103 cited

Magnetic fields during the early stages of massive star formation - II. A generalised outflow criterion

D. Seifried, R. E. Pudritz, R. Banerjee +2

Numerical simulations of outflows formed during the collapse of 100 M_sun cloud cores are presented. We derive a generalised criterion from MHD wind theory to analyse the launching…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 146 cited

Magnetic fields during the early stages of massive star formation - I. Accretion and disk evolution

D. Seifried, R. Banerjee, R. S. Klessen +2

We present simulations of collapsing 100 M_\sun mass cores in the context of massive star formation. The effect of variable initial rotational and magnetic energies on the formatio…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 159 cited

Molecular Cloud Evolution IV: Magnetic Fields, Ambipolar Diffusion, and the Star Formation Efficiency

Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Robi Banerjee, Gilberto Gomez +3

We investigate the formation and evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) by the collision of convergent warm neutral medium (WNM) streams in the interstellar medium, in the pres…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 1 cited

Discs, outflows, and feedback in collapsing magnetized cores

Dennis Duffin, Ralph E. Pudritz

The pre-stellar cores in which low mass stars form are generally well magnetized. Our simulations show that early protostellar discs are massive and experience strong magnetic torq…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 70 cited

The early history of protostellar disks, outflows, and binary stars

Dennis F. Duffin, Ralph E. Pudritz

In star formation, magnetic fields act as a cosmic angular momentum extractor that increases mass accretion rates onto protostars and in the process, creates spectacular outflows.…