Spin-down of protostars through gravitational torques
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Lin, Min-Kai; Krumholz, Mark; Kratter, Kaitlin M.
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Young protostars embedded in circumstellar discs accrete from an angular momentum rich mass reservoir. Without some braking mechanism, all stars should be spinning at or near breakup velocity. In this paper, we perform simulations of the self-gravitational collapse of an isothermal cloud using the ORION adaptive-mesh refinement code and investigate the role that gravitational torques might play in the spin-down of the dense central object. While magnetic effects likely dominate for low-mass...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2011 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/152443 |
Source: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19074.x |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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