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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 380, Issue 2, Pages 499-505Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12119.x
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MHD; instabilities; stars : formation; ISM : clouds; ISM : magnetic fields; ISM : molecules
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We employ the first fully three-dimensional simulation to study the role of magnetic fields and ion-neutral friction in regulating gravitationally driven fragmentation of molecular clouds. The cores in an initially subcritical cloud develop gradually over an ambipolar diffusion time while the cores in an initially supercritical cloud develop in a dynamical time. The infalling speeds on to cores are subsonic in the case of an initially subcritical cloud, while an extended (greater than or similar to 0.1 pc) region of supersonic infall exists in the case of an initially supercritical cloud. These results are consistent with previous two-dimensional simulations. We also found that a snapshot of the relation between density (p) and the strength of the magnetic field (B) at different spatial points of the cloud coincides with the evolutionary track of an individual core. When the density becomes large, both the relations tend to B alpha p(0.5).
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