26Al and the Partial Ionization of the Solar Nebula (Paper presesnted at the Conference on Protostars and Planets, held at the Planetary Science Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, between January 3 and 7, 1978.)
Abstract
Calculation of the ionization state and consequent magnetic Reynolds number for the solar nebula shows that the presence of26Al will result in strong coupling of the gas to magnetic fields. In the absence of26Al,40K will still result in substantial ionization, but the degree of magnetic coupling is much more model dependent.
- Publication:
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Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- October 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00896999
- Bibcode:
- 1978M&P....19..253C
- Keywords:
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- Aluminum 26;
- Gas Ionization;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetic Effects;
- Nebulae;
- Solar System;
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Ionic Reactions;
- Potassium 40;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Reynolds Number;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Astrophysics