Protostellar Jets Driven by a Disorganized Magnetic Field

dc.creatorWilliams, Peter T.
dc.date2002-06-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:03:57Z
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dc.descriptionWe have proposed a viscoelastic model of the Maxwell stresses due to the disorganized magnetic field in MRI-driven MHD turbulence. Viscoelastic fluids in the laboratory are known to produce jet-like structures under the action of a rotating sphere. Here we argue that a similar mechanism may help explain jets in protostellar systems. Such jets would be driven not by large-scale organized magnetic fields, but by the mean-field stresses of small-scale tangled magnetic fields.
dc.description5 pages. Talk at the IAOC Workshop, "Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum," La Serena, Chile, March 2002; to be published in the ASP Conference Series, edited by J. M. De Buizer
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206230
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206230
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/4570
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleProtostellar Jets Driven by a Disorganized Magnetic Field
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