Movies
All simulations are performed with the ORION code. The volume renderings are produced with yt.
STARFORGE
This is a movie of the first numerical simulation of star formation in a massive (20,000 solar mass) giant molecular cloud with individual star formation and a comprehensive treatment of feedback, from protostellar jets, radiation in 5 frequency bands, stellar winds, and core-collapse supernovae. This makes it the first full STARFORGE simulation. This particular cloud has been nicknamed the "Anvil of Creation".
Check out high-resolution 360 interactive visualizations here and here.
Citation: Guszejnov et al. 2021, Grudic et al. 2021
Identifying Stellar Feedback with MACHINE LEARNING
This movie shows a shell in the Taurus molecular cloud identified with our Convolutinal Approach to Structure Identification (CASI-3D). CASI-3D is trained on synthetic CO observations made from numerical simulations including stellar winds.
Code: https://gitlab.com/casi-project/casi-3d
Citation:: Xu et al. 2020, ApJ.
STELLAR WINDS PRODUCING "Action at a Distance"
This movie shows the evolution of the magnetic field in turbulent gas with (top) and without stellar sources driving winds. The top panels show that magnetic waves are excited and propagate ahead of the bubble boundary. At later times, these panels show more gas structure at the locations outside the bubbles.
Citation: Offner & Liu 2018, Nature Astronomy
STAR FORMING CLOUD
This movie shows a volume rendering of gas density; it zooms from large to small scales and ends with a forming protostar. The size appears in the bottom right corner.
Citation: Offner et al. 2009
PROTOSTELLAR OUTFLOW WITH MAGNETIC FIELDS
A volume rendering of the gas energy density (1/2 rho v2) for a simulated protostar launching an outflow. The box size is 0.26 pc.
Citation: Offner & Chaban 2017, Lee, Hull & Offner 2017, Image Credit: Neosha Narayanan
PROTOSTELLAR OUTFLOW: Density and Temperature
A volume rendering of both the gas density and temperature of a protostar launching an outflow. The temperature is computed using Hyperion. Box size is 800 AU.
Citation: Offner & Arce 2014, Robitaille 2011
TURBULENT ISOLATED CORE
Time evolution of the column density for 3 views of a simulated isolated dense core. A forming protostar launches an outflow that breaks out of the core. Box size is 0.26pc.
Citation: Offner & Arce 2014
PROTOSTELLAR OUTFLOW VELOCITY
Volume rendering showing the time evolution of the gas velocity. The protostar location is marked with a cross. Box size is 0.3pc.
Citation: Offner & Arce 2014
FORMING STAR CLUSTER with RADIATION
Time evolution of projected column density (left) and temperature (right). Box size is 0.65 pc; time evolution is 0.15 Myr.
Citation: Offner et al. 2009
