Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978natur.276..481l&link_type=abstract
Nature, vol. 276, Nov. 30, 1978, p. 481. NASA-supported research.
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Dynamo Theory, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Paleomagnetism, Planetary Evolution, Solar Magnetic Field, Carbonaceous Chondrites, Magnetic Flux, Remanence, Turbulence Effects
Scientific paper
Carbonaceous chondrites have apparently been magnetized in their early history in magnetic fields with intensities of 0.1 to 10 G, but the origin of the magnetizing field has remained obscured. It is suggested that the magnetic field recorded in the remanence of carbonaceous chondrites may have been produced by a self-excited hydromagnetic dynamo in the gaseous preplanetary nebula from which the solar system is thought to have formed. Recently computed models for the evolution of the preplanetary nebula, consisting of turbulent and differentially rotating gaseous disks with characteristic radial scales of several AU, are used to demonstrate the feasibility of this hypothesis. The maximum field intensity that might be realized by the dynamo production process is estimated to be as high as 1 to 10 G, taking into account two dynamical mechanisms that limit the strength of the field (the Coriolis force and ambipolar diffusion).
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