Bipolar molecular outflows driven by hydromagnetic protostellar winds

Citation
Cd. Matzner et Cf. Mckee, Bipolar molecular outflows driven by hydromagnetic protostellar winds, ASTROPHYS J, 526(2), 1999, pp. L109-L112
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
ISSN journal
0004637X → ACNP
Volume
526
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Part
2
Pages
L109 - L112
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(199912)526:2<L109:BMODBH>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We demonstrate that magnetically collimated protostellar winds will sweep a mbient material into thin, radiative, momentum-conserving shells whose feat ures reproduce those commonly observed in bipolar molecular outflows. We fi nd that the typical position-velocity and mass-velocity relations occur in outflows in a wide variety of ambient density distributions, regardless of the time histories of their driving winds.