Toroidal Magnetic Fields and the Evolution of Wind-driven Nebulae

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Oct 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996apj...469l.127r&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal Letters v.469, p.L127

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

72

Magnetohydrodynamics: Mhd, Ism: Jets And Outflows, Ism: Bubbles

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Recent analytical work on magnetic shaping of wind-driven nebulae suggests that diverging stellar winds with frozen-in toroidal magnetic fields (occurring naturally when the wind originates from a rotating source) may evolve into collimated outflows. We report numerical simulations which show that the MHD collimation of stellar winds is indeed possible provided that the field carried by the wind is sufficiently strong. Our collimation mechanism operates in the shocked wind region of the nebula, leading to the formation of an "astrophysical plasma gun" recently invoked to accelerate jets associated with accretion disks.

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