A mechanism for heating dense interstellar clouds

Details A mechanism for heating dense interstellar clouds A mechanism for heating dense interstellar clouds

Oct 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977apj...217l..45h&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor, vol. 217, Oct. 1, 1977, p. L45, L46.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Interstellar Gas, Magnetohydrodynamic Shear Heating, Rotating Matter, Astrophysics, Cloud Physics, Hydrogen Clouds

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The rate of rotation of an interstellar cloud tends to increase as it contracts. As differential rotation occurs within a cloud, magnetic-field lines are bent and twisted. The deformation of the magnetic-field lines produces hydromagnetic waves and leads to damping of the rotation. A large fraction of the rotational energy is transformed into the energy of hydromagnetic waves which heat the cloud.

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