Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, July 15-20, 2013

Poster 1H009

Star Formation: Bridging the gap between Theory and Observations

Frimann, Søren (Niels Bohr Institute & Centre for Star and Planet Formation. University of Copenhagen)
Brinch, Christian (Niels Bohr Institute & Centre for Star and Planet Formation. University of Copenhagen)
Haugbølle, Troels (Niels Bohr Institute & Centre for Star and Planet Formation. University of Copenhagen)
Jørgensen, Jes Kristian (Niels Bohr Institute & Centre for Star and Planet Formation. University of Copenhagen)

Abstract:
Studies of star formation and circumstellar disks see a lot of progress these years: The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Submillimeter Array (SMA) will make it possible to zoom in on the protostellar cores in their earliest stages and map their gas and dust content. At the same time magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of molecular clouds have reached a level, where it is becoming possible to evolve the cloud on parsec scales, while simultaneously resolving the neighborhood around the stars with an AU-scale resolution. Here we present the first results from a study of protostellar cores taken from the numerical simulations of Haugbølle et. al. (2013). The goal of this, and subsequent studies, is to compare simulations to real observations thereby providing a link between theory and observation.

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