Bipolar molecular outflows driven by hydromagnetic protostellar winds

被引:84
作者
Matzner, CD [1 ]
McKee, CF [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys & Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
hydrodynamics; ISM : jets and outflows; stars : formation; stars : mass loss;
D O I
10.1086/312376
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We demonstrate that magnetically collimated protostellar winds will sweep ambient material into thin, radiative, momentum-conserving shells whose features reproduce those commonly observed in bipolar molecular outflows. We find 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.
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页码:L109 / L112
页数:4
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