Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-12-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, uses rmaa.cls, to appear in Proc. of the Conference on "Astrophysical Plasmas: Codes, Models and Observations", Eds.
Scientific paper
We investigate the nonlinear effects of uniform rotation on the Parker instability in an exponentially-stratified disk through high-resolution simulations. During the linear stage, the speed of gas motion is subsonic and the evolution with the rotation is not much different from that without the rotation. This is because the Coriolis force is small. During the nonlinear stage, oppositely-directed supersonic flows near a magnetic valley are under the influence of the Coriolis force with different directions, resulting in twisted magnetic field lines near the valley. Sheet-like structures, which are tilted with respect to the initial field direction, are formed with an 1.5 enhancement of column density with respect to its initial value. Even though uniform rotation doesn't give much impact on density enhancement, it generates helically twisted field lines, which may become an additional support mechanism of clouds.
Jones Thomas W.
Kim Jongsoo
Ryu Dongsu
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