Meeting update

~Papers~

MHD shock paper

Check out outline on sharelatex

Paper ideas (for undergrad project)

Connie says there are no REU students, but that there may be undergrads available if Adam wants to hire them off of his grants?? I did a search and couldn't find any abstracts with the words Bonnor Ebert, radiation or radiative transfer. I think an easy project for a student would be running the collapse of a BE sphere with rad feedback. This could be a very high resolution run (AU scale, and could include MHD), where a disk forms. The questions might be:

  • How does M-dot (and hence, accretion luminosity/rad feedback) change with rad feedback (relevant to the "luminosity problem" we were learning about last week)
  • How does M-dot and rad feedback change when the BE sphere is embedded in 'realistic, continuous density medium'.

Paper ideas inspired by new Krumholz et al

Disentangling the effect of the outflows on support surrounding young protostars

Studying the role of turbulence and/or density fluctuations (last paragraph of conclusion says that is lacking)

Paper makes conclusions based on drawing spheres around sinks and calculating various critical masses — but can we test these ideas? under what limits do these ideas hold or not? Basically, trying to get a physical handle on the problem. Maybe this can also help with understanding why the accretion flow is not Bondi.

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