Protostellar Jets Driven by a Disorganized Magnetic Field

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2002-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206230v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages. Talk at the IAOC Workshop, "Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum," La Serena, Chile, March 2002;

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We have proposed a viscoelastic model of the Maxwell stresses due to the disorganized magnetic field in MRI-driven MHD turbulence. Viscoelastic fluids in the laboratory are known to produce jet-like structures under the action of a rotating sphere. Here we argue that a similar mechanism may help explain jets in protostellar systems. Such jets would be driven not by large-scale organized magnetic fields, but by the mean-field stresses of small-scale tangled magnetic fields.

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