Outflow from YSO and Angular Momentum Transfer
Abstract
Dynamical contraction of a slowly-rotating magnetized cloud is studied using the magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations. In the isothermal stage (), 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 , 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 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.
Cite
@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