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The Collimation of MHD Winds: Bipolar Flows and Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Colin A. Norman  and
Jean Heyvaerts
Colin A. Norman
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute
Jean Heyvaerts
Affiliation:
University of Paris

Abstract

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We show that axisymmetric magnetized winds emanating from rotating stars, disks, tori, etc. generally tend to collimate along the symmetry axis and conjecture that this is the reason there are so many bipolar flows and jets. The actual form of the flows at large distances from the source are either cylindrical or paraboloidal depending on the total poloidal current.

Type
6. Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds, Dark Globules and in the Pre-Stellar and Circumstellar Environment
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 353 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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