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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
A hydromagnetic model is presented for the bipolar flow of molecular gas from newborn stars and for the radio jet emerging out of active galactic nuclei. We assume a tightly-twisted helical magnetic field in the jet, which can collimate and accelerate the gas along the jet axis. The Lorentz force is also shown to rotate the gas around it.