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Hourglass Magnetic Field from a Survey of Current Density Profiles
Gianfranco Bino, Shantanu Basu, Mahmoud Sharkawi +1
Modelling the magnetic field in prestellar cores can serve as a useful tool for studying the initial conditions of star formation. The analytic hourglass model of Ewertowski and Ba…
Supermassive Star Formation in Magnetized Atomic-Cooling Gas Clouds: Enhanced Accretion, Intermittent Fragmentation, and Continuous Mergers
Shingo Hirano, Masahiro N. Machida, Shantanu Basu
The origin of supermassive black holes (with ) in the early universe (redshift ) remains poorly understood. Gravitational collapse of a massive…
Effect of mass loss due to stellar winds on the formation of supermassive black hole seeds in dense nuclear star clusters
Arpan Das, Dominik R. G. Schleicher, Shantanu Basu +1
The observations of high redshifts quasars at have revealed that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of mass were already in place within…
Variation of the Core Lifetime and Fragmentation Scale in Molecular Clouds as an Indication of Ambipolar Diffusion
Indrani Das, Shantanu Basu, Philippe Andre
Ambipolar diffusion likely plays a pivotal role in the formation and evolution of dense cores in weakly-ionized molecular clouds. Linear analyses show that the evolutionary times a…
Magnetic Properties of Star-Forming Dense Cores
Philip C. Myers, Shantanu Basu
Magnetic and energetic properties are presented for 17 dense cores within a few hundred pc of the Sun. Their plane-of-sky field strengths are estimated from the dispersion of polar…