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Launching of resistive magnetic protostellar jets

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Turbulent accretion disks are the most probable origin of jets from young stellar objects. Using an extended version of ZEUS-3D code in the axisymmetry option we investigate the evolution of a disk wind into a collimated jet. Resistive jets propagate slower with increasing magnetic diffusivity, and the degree of collimation decreases. The resistive disk included in the simulations ejects persistent, well collimated jet.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0311057,
  title  = {Launching of resistive magnetic protostellar jets},
  author = {Miljenko Cemeljic and Christian Fendt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0311057},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

To appear in: Stars as Suns: Activity, Evolution and Planets, eds. A. K. Dupree, A. Benz, IAU Symposium no. 219 Proceedings