Generation of dynamo magnetic fields in protoplanetary and other astrophysical accretion disks
Journal Article
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· Astrophys. J.; (United States)
A computational method for treating the generation of dynamo magnetic fields in astrophysical disks is presented. The numerical difficulty of handling the boundary condition at infinity in the cylindrical disk geometry is overcome by embedding the disk in a spherical computational space and matching the solutions to analytically tractable spherical functions in the surrounding space. The lowest lying dynamo normal modes for a thick astrophysical disk are calculated. The generated modes found are all oscillatory and spatially localized. Tha potential implications of the results for the properties of dynamo magnetic fields in real astrophysical disks are discussed. 30 references.
- Research Organization:
- Arizona Univ., Tucson (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6753563
- Journal Information:
- Astrophys. J.; (United States), Vol. 331
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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