名古屋大学 · 物理学・天文学
井上俊義教授の研究室では、星形成の初期段階における磁気力学的不安定性や衝撃波の役割に注目し、分子雲の形成・崩壊・フィラメント構造の生成を3次元MHDシミュレーションを用いて解明しています。特に、衝撃波と分子雲の相互作用がもたらす乱流・磁場増幅・重力収縮のメカニズムを、放射冷却・化学反応・熱伝導を含めた高精度な数値シミュレーションで解明しています。また、磁場の影響が星形成に与える役割を、観測と数値計算を融合して解明する国際共同観測プロジェクト(BISTRO)にも参加しています。
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Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we investigate general properties of a blast wave shock interacting with interstellar clouds. The shock-cloud interaction generates a turbulent shell through the vorticity generations. In the turbulent shell, the magnetic field is amplified as a result of turbulent dynamo action. In the case of a young supernova remnant, the corresponding strength of the magnetic field is approximately 1 mG. The propagation speed of the shock wave is sign
Abstract Recent observations suggest an that intensive molecular cloud collision can trigger massive star/cluster formation. The most important physical process caused by the collision is a shock compression. In this paper, the influence of a shock wave on the evolution of a molecular cloud is studied numerically by using isothermal magnetohydrodynamics simulations with the effect of self-gravity. Adaptive mesh refinement and sink particle techniques are used to follow the long-time evolution of
Using 3D MHD simulation with the effects of radiative cooling/heating, chemical reactions, and thermal conduction, we investigate the formation of molecular cloud in the ISM. We consider the formation of molecular cloud by accretion of the HI clouds as suggested in recent observations. The simulation shows that the initial HI medium is compressed and piled up behind the shock waves induced by the accretion flows. Since the initial medium is highly inhomogeneous as a consequence of the thermal in
We develop an unconditionally stable numerical method for solving the coupling between two fluids (frictional forces/heatings, ionization, and recombination), and investigate the dynamical condensation process of thermally unstable gas that is provided by the shock waves in a weakly ionized and magnetized interstellar medium by using two-dimensional two-fluid magnetohydrodynamical simulations. If we neglect the effect of magnetic field, it is known that condensation driven by thermal instability
Abstract Recent observations of molecular clouds show that dense filaments are the sites of present-day star formation. Thus, it is necessary to understand the filament formation process because these filaments provide the initial condition for star formation. Theoretical research suggests that shock waves in molecular clouds trigger filament formation. Since several different mechanisms have been proposed for filament formation, the formation mechanism of the observed star-forming filaments req
We report turbulence effects on magnetic reconnection in relativistic plasmas using 3-dimensional relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations. We found reconnection rate became independent of the plasma resistivity due to turbulence effects similarly to non-relativistic cases. We also found compressible turbulence effects modified the turbulent reconnection rate predicted in non-relativistic incompressible plasmas; The reconnection rate saturates and even decays as the injected veloc
This study showed the detailed distribution of crystals in C. unshiu peels and their main component was identified using Raman microscopy to be hesperidin for the first time.
Abstract Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants. However, whether supernova remnants can be PeV is still very unclear. In this work we argue that PeV cosmic rays can be accelerated during the early phase of a supernova blast-wave expansion in dense red supergiant winds. We solve in spherical geometry a system combining a diffusive–convection equation that treats cosmic-ray dynamics coupled to magnetohydrodynamics to follow gas dynamics. A fast shock expanding i
Abstract Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the site of galactic cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the details of the cosmic-ray acceleration are still not well understood. Gamma-ray observation is a promising method to study cosmic-ray acceleration in the SNRs, because a hadronic gamma-ray can trace high-energy cosmic-rays above ∼GeV energy. Conventional theory predicts that the hadronic gamma-ray shows a flat νF ν spectrum from the pion-creation threshold energy to the maximum energy
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