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Phenomena Involving Magnetic Vortex Tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

P.F. Browne
P.F. Browne*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Manchester M60 1QD, UK

Abstract

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Magnetic vortex tubes (MVTs) on a hierarchy of scales occur universally. On the largest scale they channel bipolar outflows of gas. A pinched region of MVT provides an acceleration mechanism capable of yielding the maximum cosmic ray energies.

Type
4. Magnetohydrodynamics of Galactic Magnetic Fields
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 136 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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