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Magnetic Braking of Interstellar Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

E.A. Dorfi
E.A. Dorfi*
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Astrophysik Karl–Schwarzschild–Str. 1 D-8046 Garching bei München, FRG

Abstract

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We summarize the results of 3-D MHD calculations for a rotating and self-gravitating interstellar cloud. The angle between the axis of rotation and the magnetic field direction varies between π/2 and 0, the corresponding braking time-scales differ by roughly a factor of 3.

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. 287 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

References

Dorfi, E.A.: 1989, Astron. Astrophys., in press Google Scholar