Journal article
The properties of pre-stellar discs in isolated and multiple pre-stellar systems
Abstract
We present high-resolution 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the formation and evolution of protostellar discs in a turbulent molecular cloud. Using a piecewise polytropic equation of state, we perform two sets of simulations. In both cases, we find that isolated systems undergo a fundamentally different evolution than members of binary or multiple systems. When formed, isolated systems must accrete mass and increase their …
Authors
Hayfield T; Mayer L; Wadsley J; Boley AC
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 417, No. 3, pp. 1839–1852
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
November 1, 2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19371.x
ISSN
0035-8711