Protostellar Jets Driven by a Disorganized Magnetic Field
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We have proposed a viscoelastic model of the Maxwell stresses due to the disorganized magnetic field in MRI-driven MHD turbulence. Viscoelastic fluids in the laboratory are known to produce jet-like structures under the action of a rotating sphere. Here we argue that a similar mechanism may help explain jets in protostellar systems. Such jets would be driven not by large-scale organized magnetic fields, but by the mean-field stresses of small-scale tangled magnetic fields.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0206230,
title = {Protostellar Jets Driven by a Disorganized Magnetic Field},
author = {Peter T. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0206230},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages. Talk at the IAOC Workshop, "Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum," La Serena, Chile, March 2002; to be published in the ASP Conference Series, edited by J. M. De Buizer