The Challenge of Sub-Keplerian Rotation for Disk Winds
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Strong magnetization makes the disks surrounding young stellar objects rotate at rates that are too sub-Keplerian to enable the thermal launching of disk winds from their surfaces unless the rate of gas diffusion across field lines is dynamically fast. This under-appreciated implication of disk magnetization poses a considerable challenge for disk-wind theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.2137,
title = {The Challenge of Sub-Keplerian Rotation for Disk Winds},
author = {Frank H. Shu and Susana Lizano and Daniele Galli and Mike J. Cai and Subhanjoy Mohanty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2137},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, accepted by ApJL