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On the role of gravity, turbulence, and the magnetic field in angular momentum transfer within molecular clouds
Griselda Arroyo-Chavez, Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, James Wurster
Observations of molecular structures on scales of pc show that the specific angular momentum () scales with radius () as . We study the effects o…
Star-forming environments in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics simulations I: Clump extraction and properties
James Wurster, Connar Rowan
What is the nature of a star forming clump? Observations reveal these to be chaotic environments being modified and influenced by many physical processes. However, numerical simula…
Gas and star kinematics in cloud-cloud collisions
James Wurster, Ian A. Bonnell
We model the collision of molecular clouds to investigate the role of the initial properties on the remnants. Our clouds collide and evolve in a background medium that is approxima…
The initial magnetic criticality of prestellar cores
Felix D. Priestley, Charles Yin, James Wurster
Direct observational measurements of the magnetic field strength in prestellar cores typically find supercritical mass-to-flux ratios, suggesting that the magnetic field is insuffi…
The formation and early evolution of embedded star clusters in spiral galaxies
Steven Rieder, Clare Dobbs, Thomas Bending +2
We present Ekster, a new method for simulating star clusters from birth in a live galaxy simulation that combines the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method Phantom with the…
The impact of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic processes on discs, outflows, counter-rotation and magnetic walls during the early stages of star formation
James Wurster, Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell
Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes -- namely Ohmic resistivity, ambipolar diffusion and the Hall effect -- modify the early stages of the star formation process and the…