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Outflow from YSO and Angular Momentum Transfer

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Dynamical contraction of a slowly-rotating magnetized cloud is studied using the magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations. In the isothermal stage (n\lanA1010cm3n \la n_{\rm A} \sim 10^{10}{\rm cm}^{-3}), the cloud evolves similarly to that expected from Larson-Penston self-similar solution and experiences the run-away collapse. However, after the central density exceeds nA\sim n_{\rm A}, an accretion disk is formed around the adiabatic core. Just outside the core, outflow is ejected by the effect of magnetic torque (magnetocentrifugal wind). Since \sim 10% of the mass is ejected with almost all the angular momentum, the specific angular momentum of the protostellar core reduces to that observed in main-sequence stars.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0006329,
  title  = {Outflow from YSO and Angular Momentum Transfer},
  author = {Kohji Tomisaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0006329},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, presented in IAU symposium #200 "The Formation of Binary Stars" at Potsdam, Germany; April 10-15 2000