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Toroidal Fields: a Driving Mechanism for Protostellar Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Kurt Liffman  and
Anna Siora
Kurt Liffman
Affiliation:
Advanced Fluid Dynamics Lab, CSIRO/DBCE, P.O. Box 56, Highett, Vic. 3190, AUSTRALIA
Anna Siora
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Group, School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3052., AUSTRALIA

Abstract

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We propose that a toroidal magnetic field is the main driving component of a protostellar jet. We discuss how the ram pressure of the jet may damp a Parker-like instability and provide a stable environment for a jet flow.

Type
Part 15. Poster Papers
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 754 - 756
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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