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Protoplanetary disk size and the nonideal magnetohydrodynamics

李悅寧副教授 Prof. Yueh-Ning Lee from Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University
@ Rm. 104, Chin-Pao Yang Lecture Hall, Department of Physics, NTU

 

Abstract 

Many mechanisms have been proposed to alleviate the magnetic catastrophe that prevents the Keplerian disk from forming inside a collapsing magnetized core. Such propositions include inclined field and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics effects, and have been supported with numerical experiments. Models have been proposed for typical disk sizes when a field threads the rotating disk, parallel to the rotation axis, while observations at the core scales do not seem to show any correlation between the directions of angular momentum and the magnetic field. In this talk, I will present a new model that considers vertical and horizontal fields and discusses their effects on the protoplanetary disk size.

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