Accounting for the diversity in stellar environments.
Stars and their corresponding protoplanetary disks form in diverse environments. To account for these natural variations, we investigate the formation process around nine solar mass stars with a maximum resolution of 2 AU in a Giant Molecular Cloud of (40 pc)$^3$ in volume by using the adaptive mesh refinement code \ramses. The magnetohydrodynamic simulations reveal that the accretion process is heterogeneous in time, in space, and among protostars of otherwise similar mass. During the first roughly 100 kyr of a protostar evolving to about a solar mass, the accretion rates peak around $10^{-5}$ to $10^{-4}$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$ shortly after its birth, declining with time after that. The different environments also affect the spatial accretion, and infall of material to the star-disk system is mostly through filaments and sheets. Furthermore, the formation and evolution of disks varies significantly from star to star. We interpret the variety in disk formation as a consequence of the differences in the combined effects of magnetic fields and turbulence that may cause differences in the efficiency of magnetic braking, as well as differences in the strength and distribution of specific angular momentum.
Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08900
DOI: arXiv:1710.08900v3
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