Early Phases of Protostellar Discs: Studies with radiation transfer magneto-hydrodynamic simulations

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Robi Stefan Banerjee
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 313436735

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

Within this project we aimed to study the formation and evolution of protostellar discs with our novel radiation-transfer approach of the FLASH code. First we improved the radiation-transfer module for the FLASH code which was developed by Lars Buntemeyer within a DFG Emmy-Noether project. In the second step of this project we started to study the early phases of protostellar discs. As pointed out in the proposal, discs are key features during the formation of stars and planets. Hence, understanding the early phases of the disc evolution is vital to understand the build up of young stellar systems.

Publications

• “Simulations of the early phases of protostellar disc evolution with radiation transfer”, Mem. Soc. Astron. Italiana, 88, 787 (2017)
  M. Jung & R. Banerjee