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Dynamical PN Evolution with Magnetic Fields

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

Hydrodynamical simulations played an important role in understanding the dynamics and shaping of planetary nebulae in the past century. However, hydrodynamical simulations were just a first order approach. The new millennium arrived with the generalized understanding that the effects of magnetic fields were necessary to study the dynamics of planetary nebulae. Thus, B-fields introduced a whole new number of physical possibilities for the modeling. In this paper, we review observational works done in the last 5 years and several works on magnetohydrodynamics about proto-planetary nebulae, since all the effort has been focused on that stage, and discuss different scenarios for the origin of magnetized winds, and the relation binary-bipolararity.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606632,
  title  = {Dynamical PN Evolution with Magnetic Fields},
  author = {Garcia-Segura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606632},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, Review Talk, IAU 243, Planetary Nebulae in our Galaxy and Beyond