X-Winds Theory and Observations
Abstract
We review the theory of x-winds in young stellar objects (YSOs), and we compare its predictions with a variety of astronomical observations. Such flows arise magnetocentrifugally from accretion disks when their inner edges interact with strongly magnetized central stars. X-winds collimate logarithmically slowly into jets, and their interactions with the surrounding molecular cloud cores of YSOs yield bipolar molecular outflows.
- Publication:
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Protostars and Planets IV
- Pub Date:
- May 2000
- Bibcode:
- 2000prpl.conf..789S