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Outflow from Protostars and Angular Momentum Transfer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2016
Abstract
Dynamical contraction of a slowly-rotating magnetized cloud is studied using 2D magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations. In the isothermal stage (n ≲ nA ∼ 1010cm−3), the cloud evolves similarly to that expected from the Larson-Penston self-similar solution and experiences a run-away collapse. However, after the central density exceeds ∼ nA, an accretion disk is formed around an adiabatic core. Just outside the core, an outflow is ejected by the effect of magnetic torque (magneto-centrifugal 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 pre-main-sequence stars.
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- IX. Theoretical Context - Detailed Calculations
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 200: The Formation of Binary Stars , 2001 , pp. 401 - 405
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001