arXiv · 2507.12179
The effect of non-uniformity density structure on the molecular cloud-cores magnetic braking in the ideal MHD framework
Abstract
The phenomenon of magnetic braking is one of the significant physical effects of the magnetic field in rotating molecular clouds. The physical characteristics of the core can affect on the core rotation rate. and one of the important parameter is the core density structure. According to observation, by regarding the power-law density distribution, $r^{-p}$, for molecular cloud cores, using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation, the results show that the increasing of density steepness (i.e., larger $p$) leads to the intensity of the toroidal components of the magnetic field and as a result larger $B_{\phi}$-components lead to more transfer of angular momentum to the outward. Thus, results show that the magnetic braking being stronger with increasing density slope in non-uniform molecular core. For example, the rotation of the system can approximately decrease by fifty percent from $p=0.2$ to $p=1.8$ for a non-uniform system.
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Abbas Ebrahimi, Mohsen Nejad-Asghar, Azar Khosravi. 2025-07-16. The effect of non-uniformity density structure on the molecular cloud-cores magnetic braking in the ideal MHD framework. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12179
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