Stellar dynamo driven wind braking versus disc coupling

DOI10.1002/ASNA.200510490MaRDI QIDQ5469159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. von Rekowski, A. Brandenburg

Publication date 16 May 2006

Published in Astronomische Nachrichten: A Journal on all Fields of Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504053

zbMATH Keywords

accretionaccretion disksISM: jets and outflowsmagnetohydrodynamics (MHD)stars: mass-lossstars: pre-main sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Abstract: Star-disc coupling is considered in numerical models where the stellar field is not an imposed perfect dipole, but instead a more irregular self-adjusting dynamo-generated field. Using axisymmetric simulations of the hydromagnetic mean-field equations, it is shown that the resulting stellar field configuration is more complex, but significantly better suited for driving a stellar wind. In agreement with recent findings by a number of people, star-disc coupling is less efficient in braking the star than previously thought. Moreover, stellar wind braking becomes equally important. In contrast to a perfect stellar dipole field, dynamo-generated stellar fields favor field-aligned accretion with considerably higher velocity at low latitudes, where the field is weaker and originating in the disc. Accretion is no longer nearly periodic (as it is in the case of a stellar dipole), but it is more irregular and episodic.

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