Magnetic Flux Tubes in Stars and Disks

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May 1996

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American Physical Society, APS/AAPT Joint Meeting, May 2-5, 1996, abstract #L14.07

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Recent work on the evolution of a diffuse magnetic field in a turbulent medium has shown that Lorentz forces become important on small scales long before the large scale field reaches equipartition with the turbulence. Here I discuss a model for the end state of this process in which the magnetic field is gathered into long thin bundles which interact hydrodynamically. I show that this state is self-consistent and allows the magnetic field to move rapidly through a highly conducting medium, to reconnect efficiently, and that it enables the large scale field to reach equipartition with the fluid turbulence. I also discuss the implications of this model for numerical simulations, and for the magnetic field of the Sun and other astrophysical objects.

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